Winter one more time?  

If you don’t like the weather here in Minnesota just wait a day or two it will change.  Today’s high of 69 with a chance of thunderstorms and winds at 25 mph, rain after 4pm.  Tomorrow, rain possible mixed with SNOW.  Temperatures falling to around 40 by 10am.  Wednesday night, rain and SNOW, becoming all SNOW after 1 am.  New SNOW ACCUMULATION of 1 to 2 inches possible. 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!   Seriously this isn’t funny anymore.  Who can I talk to about this?  As much as old man winter doesn’t seem to want to leave the party, mother earth needs to explain the situation to him.  Do you think he’s gone senile? 

59 milk jugs & 22 misc container

So when winter refuses to leave the party when he should what do gardener’s in Minnesota do to keep themselves sane?  This year I Winter Sow.  Sow Digging it Meredith, turned me on to it this winter, and I have gone crazy!   My husband was complaining this winter when I was hanging around the street corners asking for milk jugs, but he’s starting to see the benefits.   With today's weather forecast an as it is April 30th, I am very glad I found winter sowing.  Sow Digging it Meredith knows a lot more about it than I do, and is really a good source of one on one information and wrote a bit about in earlier.  

One of the great things about Winter Sowing is once the snow is gone, the neighbors and the neighbor kids are over to see what going on.  I have had more than on little girl ask me if she can help me plant the flowers.  The boys well they just want to know if I'll need toads this year.  They have neighborhood toad hunts for my garden, you have not seen anything until you've seen a several ice cream pails full of toads.  Luckly, for them I live pretty close to the pond.  So even though it a week day, the kids saw me out moving my jugs off the grass (I’m starting to kill it) and onto my driveway.  They were walking to the bus, and lucky me I suddenly had lots of helping hands and questions.  “Will the snow hurt the plants?”  I don’t thinks so but I hope not.  “Did you drink all this milk?”  Nope, you guys did.  “Are you going to have tomatoes again this summer?”  Yes, I should have lots of tomatoes to share.  “Are you going to need the toads to help?”  Yes, I am. 

So don’t despair, Summer is on its way!  In the meantime as Rebel is telling me now, “Mom, get off the computer.  Let’s go outside”