05.03.07
Spring has sprung, or has it?
Finally it is springtime around here. Upstate NY is a tough place to live at this time of year. You have the promise of spring with the flowers all beginning to bloom and the trees sprouting their leaves, but it is still pretty cold! It’s not unheard of to have snow in April or May. Then, all of a sudden, we get hot weather! Where I grew up, spring was usually a gradual thing. This is the land of extremes. I don’t usually complain about weather (except extreme heat with humidity), but I have to admit that I’m getting a little sick of this all or nothing weather. Today the sun is shining, and it’s about 60 degrees. I’ll take it. I don’t even mind spring rain as long as we get some sunshine once in a while. I think one reason I’m having a hard spring is that my new yard is all clay. Everyone in my family is too busy to help me mix some compost and topsoil into it, so it becomes a swimming pool everytime it rains. I am an avid gardener with a very sore back. Not a great combination, so I depend on the stronger backs in the family to help out. Hopefully, we will get the new garden in before my seedlings decide to give up!