SNOW in May??? (live, garden, rich)

[Boodle007]

Is it really snowing there? I'm coming down in 2 weeks and really don't know what to wear now. Is this an anomoly? Trying to get away from the snow

[DC at the Ridge]

It's not just an anomoly. It's historic. Evidently this is the first snow event to ever happen in Arkansas in May. That said, it was lovely this morning. The snow against the green grass made that green seem so much more vibrant. Now, it's raining, and almost all the snow is gone.

[Boodle007]

WOW-well I still can't wait to get there!

[jim9251]

I've NEVER seen it snow this late in the year there. EVER. So much for everyones gardens!

[Boodle007]

I was wondering when you all plant-here in Chicago we don't plant until after Memorial Day as it could still snow.

[DC at the Ridge]

My rule of thumb is Mother's Day. But the climate has been shifting back a month over the past five or six years, spring coming earlier, and fall coming earlier, too. So I've started doing some planting earlier, after April 15th. It's just so darn tempting to do it earlier, when the daffodils literally cover the hillsides in March.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

My rule of thumb is Mother's Day. But the climate has been shifting back a month over the past five or six years, spring coming earlier, and fall coming earlier, too. So I've started doing some planting earlier, after April 15th. It's just so darn tempting to do it earlier, when the daffodils literally cover the hillsides in March.

I did a lot of mine, starting a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, and we got the most snow, yesterday, I only lost a couple of pepper plants. Of course, because of this weird year, it is taking the seeds twice as long to pop thiers heads up. I may have to do a little re-planting but my squash is really doing well. A week ago there were no plants and now I have, maybe 30 that are up.

Nita

[Boodle007]

Wow ill bet gardening is much better there!

[Sam I Am]

For rock farmers it is spectacular. The rest of us do some soil amendment, depending on which rock you live on.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

For rock farmers it is spectacular. The rest of us do some soil amendment, depending on which rock you live on.

That's mostly true. When I was growing up, our garden actually seemed to grow rocks, and the neighbor next door, an older woman with ten green thumbs, was always bringing in topsoil, and adding this and that. But the neighbor a street over, had rock-free brown soil, no clay, and his yard grew like gangbusters. The older woman thought that his land probably was was once along an ancient riverbed, where soil ended up getting deposited. I don't know. But when I bought my house, in part it was because of the many flowerbeds. When I started planting, I thought maybe the previous owner and shipped in topsoil when laying out the garden. But it doesn't matter where you dig, in the flowerbeds or not, rich brown soil, no rocks, full of earthworms. I like to think I lucked out, and ended up on an ancient riverbed.