@MissGayle yea, it's pretty rough. Scary how dry central IL and southwestern IA is at the moment...

@chgowiz

You know, it's not impossible that the Daniel Boone forest could have a forest fire, like california. I imagine it's only a matter of time now.

@MissGayle That would really suck :(

@chgowiz

Yep. So much weed would be lost, lol.

@MissGayle it is a wonderful work of #foodproduction you are doing over that side.
I have got to know that you have been in #winters which do not favour your growing and this is sorry my fellows.
I am also training young people about sustainable food production and #environment conservation to end hunger problems in schools and community.
We are working as the #Greenyouthmovement

@2003MugishaPhocit

We're in Zone 7, which should be a lot wetter at this time of year.

Technically our last freeze day is not yet for a couple of weeks, but I'm thinking those dates are wrong now, due to climate change. Our last frost is supposedly in May, but I can't imagine anything that cold in May anymore.

To compare, my father took us kids camping at Grayson lake and we got snow on us overnight on Memorial Day weekend. This was about 3 decades ago. That would never happen now.

@MissGayle Worst part is how everyone around is delighted by what they call good weather.

@Virginicus

This afternoon the sun came out and I had some asparagus roots in the fridge, which we planted - and the soil was bone dry, even several inches down that we had to dig for those long roots.