We’re sitting here within the 3 month mark (11 weeksish!) until last frost date, and all I can do is look at the waist-high banks of snow in my front yard and think, yeah right.
Three months is going to be forever.
It’s been a long winter this year. Loooong winter.
Loooooooooong.
So long, in fact, I’m thinking about fleeing to Florida for a reprieve. This winter has been the longest sustained cold I can remember. Usually, we have only a couple or three weeks of this bitter cold. But two polar vortexes later, and we’ve had -20C with windchill for about… well the better part of 6 weeks. I think there was one day we got +2, and then every other time it was within spitting distance of 0C, we got royally snow dumped on, which was almost worse. There’s been so little sun this winter. Have you seen my food photography? It’s blue. It’s all blue, because it’s overcast.
Every. Single. Day.
My only comfort is: it could be worse. I could live in Buffalo. Sucks to be you guys. I’m not sure why you live there at all, but we’ll keep sending you the Canadian military to dig you out.
So I should be thinking, it’s time to break out the books and start planning for spring! Cause you know if you don’t, you’re going to get caught with your proverbial pants down. Again. Anne. I’m talking to you. But what I am thinking instead is, I can’t see my planter. It’s like -15C today, and it’s probably frozen solid. I wonder how long it’ll take to thaw out and warm up enough that I can stand to put my hands in it and fix the drain, which got plugged sometime towards the end of the summer.
Maybe I can grow spinach on my dining room table.
If spring ever comes.
Sarah (est. 1975) says
Try to look on the bright side. Being stuck indoors with our kids gives us lots of relaxing, quality time with them that we can enjoy every minute of.
BAHAHAHAksjhdaksdakshdj *wipes tear*
I mean: Makin’ memories!
Rebecca says
I’m growing an avocado tree (from the pit) and have it in front of a kitchen window. It is about two feet tall and has started losing its bottom leaves. It’s watered every Friday. Have not given it any food since I transplanted it a few months ago. Any ideas as to why it would lose its leaves? The local nursery had no idea. Please respond to my email. Thanks a lot!
Food Retro says
Hi Rebecca
I can only speculate, but avocados are notorious for being temperamental and easily stressed. They hate being moved and don’t respond well to sudden changes in conditions. Strange discolouration in the leaves before they die off, or the way they die off, may indicate a nutrient deficiency or an attack on the plant by a pathogen/pest.
Good luck!