Douglas William Jerrold once said, "If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest." This season, it’s been extremely early ‘to tickle’ the soil and prepare for ‘sooner than usual’ plantings. And while it’s inspiring to see blasts of color a month premature, tonight’s predicted hard frost may be a difficult one to handle. We need cool but we don’t want freezing cold. Last night’s protection came from the wind. Tonight’s safeguard could be simply keeping our fingers crossed. As I mentioned in last week’s blog http://blog.bilowzassociates.com/2012/03/whats-waking-up-in-your-garden.html about the McIntosh dilemma, that tasty apple we so love in New England may never reach its proper ripeness and sweetness without cooler temperatures but a hard frost tonight with everything popping into bloom could cause a different sort of havoc. Let’s hope these early bursts of spring shed ‘laughs with a harvest’. And don’t forget to support your local farmers whenever you can.
Image of a Peach blossom unfurling by Ann Bilowz
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If you like this blog, hope you check in daily. You can like our fan page at http://www.facebook.com/abilowz or follow on twitter http://twitter.com/annbilowz (where there are even more shared tidbits) or subscribe on the blog to receive posts daily via email or a feed. Either way, we hope you follow the postings somewhere in cyberspace and share it with your gardening friends. Contact me direct at annbilowz@gmail.com Happy Gardening. Annie
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