Steve Hootman
February 26, 2009
I know many of you around the country (and in Canada) are still suffering through what has been a long, and often unusual, winter. Locally, we have had very little precipitation since the beginning of the new year (normally one of our rainiest periods) and I have actually had to run irrigation in some parts of the garden. Here in the Seattle region, as is normal for this time of year, we have been well into the spring season for a few weeks now although we woke up this morning to a couple of inches of newly fallen snow. It is going to remain colder than average with more snow in the forecast. The long-range forecast shows that temperatures are not expected to fall far below freezing, however, so we should have little damage to flowers and buds.