Yesterday I put on my winter coat, ski hat and tall rain boots to tackle the garden weeds (second full weeding this year) in hopes of being able to rototill once the soil dries out. The local paper, front page, headline read: "Not your imagination: It's been a dreary year" "Dismal doesn't begin to describe the kind of spring we are having...(along with all the rain) Oregon had the 5th coldest April ever logged and May hasn't shown much improvement. The high temperatures recorded were almost 5 degrees below the long-term average...In the mountains, spring is just an abstract concept. Snowpacks, which were barely above average on April 1, now range from 180 to 225 percent normal...The bottom line: 'Don't expect thing to change real soon. I'm thinking write off all of June. I don't think we're going to get any break in the weather until mid or late July'."
Today we put on rain suits over our winter coats. Not able to beat the weather, as long as we would be getting wet anyway, we are power washing the moss and mold covering everything. Several more days of rain and cold are predicted. Hopefully garden weeds won't again germinate before I can plant. Then again, maybe I'll just do the entire garden in the green house this summer - if we have a summer.
