Orchard crops are a crap shoot when you live in a place where half of your weather comes from the GoM, and the other half comes from the North Pole.
I should probably spend some time pruning my trees today. I’d hate for them to be looking scraggly when their buds get frozen.
There’s still frost in the ground here. The soil isn’t going to be workable until the freeze/thaw cycles have ended. I just need it to thaw a little bit so I can dig the footers for the green-to (green-to - I just made that up. I am SO clever. lol) addition to the potting shed.
Are you in the Ozarks too? Cold dry Canadian air mass meets warm wet Gulf air and they battle it out to see who'll win. Don't like the weather? Wait a minute.
Augie; Weather and fruit trees. They are a problem but when they do fruit it is worth it. I have 3rd year 2 plums and some Viking Aronia. I will wait until I have a larger property (a very remote possibility) before I get any more trees.
Hope your Green Shed goes well!