even though there was some additional snow yesterday there is still some green poking up through the white in the winter wheat and rye beds...
the additional snow complicated roadway navigation last night...however the wheat bed now has what appears to be an even 5 inches of snow cover...
and the rye has 4.9375...which is fine given the current temperature...
and the fact that the high will only ( if the forecast is true ) only be six degrees higher and the low tonight in single digits..the problem is tomorrow's high is allegedly going to be in the upper thirties ( all temperatures in fahrenheit ) and it is supposed to rain...then the temperatures are alleged to be dropping into areas well below freezing ans i am wondering how much snow cover i will lose before we go back to single digit lows and have exposed plants...the climate driven weather has not really been cooperating with these overwintering plants of late...winters seem to be becoming both more intense in terms of low temperatures and shorter in duration...neither of which fits in with the artificially selected evolution of these plants...look for another weather report tomorrow...
while i was out there i had a look at the grapes...the seedless vines did well in their second year and it it looks to be time to expand the trellis to accommodate them...
a shade to the southeast the gnarled old concord grape root stock...
continues to send vines up through the neighboring fir tree...
to join the ones ( admittedly difficult to see ) already in the catalpa tree..the greeks used to plant grape vines with olive trees so they would grow together...i have inadvertently rediscovered the process in my yard...it took over twenty years though...patient people.
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