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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have fresh dill growing in my garden. Outside. In December. In Michigan.
So I dug it up and re-potted it.
I'm now starting to worry that my daffs will start peeking up, through the soil.
Two years ago, at this time, I was freezing my way through a week long power outage, after a major ice storm. My house was so cold that I didn't lose anything from the refrigerator or freezer. You could see your breath in my livingroom.
Last year we were experiencing lots of cold and snow. We never actually had a snow melt until Spring.
This year I'm outside in shirt sleeves, digging up baby dill plants.
Vinca
(50,279 posts)It's supposed to get close to 70 in southern NH!
Siwsan
(26,272 posts)I remember one year when my daffs were in bloom at the end of February. I thought that was freaky. I should go check the forsythia, tomorrow.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I used to cut mine in Jan or so, take them in the house and they would bloom. So buds on it at this time of year is not unusual.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)i have feverfew sprouts in a pot in milwaukee, the almost dead fall feverfew is looking green. chives. i need to dig up the last carrots. but cold front moving in. i saw a snap dragon sprouted. we did plant them this year. WEEDS. next, dandelions.
madokie
(51,076 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)In western PA. All of my herbs are still alive. I'm going to search for dill!
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)If it wasn't pouring rain in New Jersey I'd be walking around in a t shirt.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Usually we get a break as it cools off a bit during December-February. Not this year.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Otherwise they'd o about their usual business.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Last winter, my car sat stuck in packed snow for almost a week. So, in August, I bought a snow blower, which will probably sit unused in my basement this winter.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)I have feeling 3-4 weeks of cold and snow in Jan-February then done.
Siwsan
(26,272 posts)My part of the state - not so much. A few days of a chance of < an inch but NOTHING in comparison to the last two, record breaking snow fall and cold temperature winters.
I feel bad for the winter sports people, but they had two kick ass winters in a row.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)They were like the winters from the 1970's. Cold, snowy and long.
Siwsan
(26,272 posts)During the power outage, the generator was on the opened screened in porch. The wind grew stronger and shifted, and blew the generator fumes back at and into the house. After a day, carbon monoxide started building up and I didn't know it. All I knew was whenever I stood up, I got VERY light headed but when I went out to get more gas for the generator, or curl up under a comforter on the couch, I'd start feeling normal, again. Fortunately we figured out what was happening before it reached a lethal level. However, it took me months before I felt closer to normal, and could taste food, again.
Needless to say, we made some MAJOR generator changes.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Oklahoma Senator Inhofe brought a snowball onto the Senate floor last year, and that proves global warming doesn't exist!
TlalocW
Siwsan
(26,272 posts)I'm still picking fresh thyme and oregano, too, but those plants are huge, hardy and well established and I cover them with maple leafs so I can harvest later into the year. Dill is pretty delicate and is the first herb I lose, every autumn.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I have one container pot of rosemary that simply refuses to die no matter how much I neglect it. It survives weeks of 100+ days here in Texas after I stop watering it in the spring.
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)and Christmas is predicted to be 70 degrees here in central PA.
More than a little creepy, imo.
And my parsley plants are still going strong.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Mint still growing in my yard in Pittsburgh, by the way. The robins gave up going south years ago, so there's no sighting of 'the first robin of spring' anymore.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)He plans to overturn any decisions re climate change
Heeeeers Johnny
(423 posts)If every December and/or winter was like this, and without ever having to see another snowflake again,
I'd die a happy man.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)I don't care about a white Christmas . Its going to be around 50
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)This climate is fucked up.
longship
(40,416 posts)In fucking Michigan! After pulling it all up in the Fall! There were enough seeds to get another generation going. So she is harvesting broccoli in December... In fucking SE Michigan!!!!
BTW, 56 Degrees F today in rural west Michigan. No paved roads here, but no snow either. Bought new snow tires for my 20+ year old Volvo just in case. That, and added 400 gallons of heating oil. Now I only need to keep the martini levels up for the winter.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)magnolia tree here in NYC.