Your Weather, 2025

Steady rain since middle of the night. There was one break, so I could get the 2024 beef out of the downstairs freezer and move the cars. DH and DD's both drove down 45 minutes to the locker to pick it all up this morning.
I just got the truck and the 2 cars back in the garage. I emptied out the garage dehumidifier, too.
Still raining, ponies have been out on the pasture for a couple of days. I need to fix their shelter manger where one of them messed up the boards, but otherwise I don't have any more big jobs to do today.
IF I get an hour I will have to replant AGAIN all of my peas!!!!! :rant
After I planted we had weeks of drought, and I think that they dried out. Only 3 sprouted. :hit
 
ducks4you said:
Don't feel badly, @Dahlia . Just read an article about growing peas problems, and I may have just planted them too early. I have Plenty of extra peas to plant! :hugs
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That's good! I once planted peas too early and they just froze in their size for like a month and then when things warmed up, they took off growing! I can't sneak them in early. Lesson learned!
 
The "Dry Pea and Lentil Capital of the US" lies less than 100 miles to the south. At one time, I imagined this meant that Austrian field peas would be a good choice for a Winter cover crop. Twice trying with the results of about ½ of the plants dying 1st Winter and 90% of them dying the 2nd. Maybe the recent, warmer Winters would have better mortality rates but subzero F with no snow cover can't be good, for sure.

The other problem for garden peas is if we have hot and very dry weather during late Spring. That infrequently happens but wipes out Fava beans ... and then Adzuki beans must not tolerate our bouncing 24 hour temperatures well enough to mature. Soybeans are not grown commercially anywhere nearby but variety choice seems to allow some possibilities. All gardening is local :).

Staying above freezing the most recent 2 nights. That may change the next 2. Interesting that our 2 afternoons to hit 70f (21C) were in March and we "officially" haven't seen that in 3 weeks of April ! Close, a few times.

Steve
 
more frosts here, but we did get to about 55F today.

warmer weather this coming week, two days of 66F and two more days in the 70sF. no frosts in the forecast for this week, but a few nights in the high 30sF.
 
flowerbug said:
more frosts here, but we did get to about 55F today.

warmer weather this coming week, two days of 66F and two more days in the 70sF. no frosts in the forecast for this week, but a few nights in the high 30sF.
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It's been rainy on and off today and quite breezy. The high was 55.
 
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