Wear your jacket!

    Son and I, once again, headed outside to throw blankets over the garden.  This seems to be the longest winter on record but that may just be my opinion.  Still, when I have to traipse outside night after night to toss blankets or rugs over top of plants, it gets a bit old. Although, I love winter and cold weather, there comes a point when enough is enough.  Just a couple of days ago, we were basking in sun with the temperatures reaching the low 80s now, we are in that deep freeze again!  The garden is suffering from a case of weather shock!...as am I.

   Some of the things suffering the hardest blows from the topsy-turvy winter are the peach trees.  When the weather was warm and balmy, they thought Old Man Winter had made his exit and so, they bloomed. Now that the icy clutch of Jack Frost has come into the picture, the blooms are shivering in their boots...well, maybe not since blooms do not wear boots.  Still, you get the picture.  I am so afraid that this might put a damper on our getting a good crop of peaches yet again this year. It seems that between the critters (coons, squirrels and deer) and the weather (high winds and freezing temperatures), our peach trees do not have a chance.  

  Hopefully, this will be the last really cold spell to hit the Bayou.  I know this is nothing compared to the snowy winter others have had but we are just not used to such weather.  Personally, if I would not be so antsy to get a garden in the ground, I could sit back and enjoy all of this!  Winter really is my favorite season.  I guess gardening just trumps any other activity in my book.  Hmmm?  Now where are those tomato seeds?