4.07.2007

And we thought winter was over...

Just goes to show, even the best of the frost prediction plants can be wrong...

Last week the mesquite and desert willows budded out, signaling the last frost of the year. Today a one to two inch layer of sleet and hail looks like snow on the ground. Nearly 24 hours of freezing temperatures has caused sever damage.

A couple of friends have reported an almost total loss of their fruit, and garden devastation where cold frames were not in place. All of the delays with rearranging our own gardens has proved a blessing in disguise... The only apparent damage I have is to my herbs, so far.

It will be a couple of days before the verdict will be in on the young trees we planted. They are bent over with a coating of ice, but nothing is actually broken.

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