First crazy weather of the 2010 gardening season...

[beac]

Hail in April:



In the foreground is the disappointing strawberry plant from 2009 that I yanked from its pot and tossed into the upper garden in a fit of pique last fall. It survived in its little mound of uprooted potting soil, so it's being given a second chance to prove its worth this year. Peas in a pot in the back...trying a much earlier planting this year. Fennel to the back left-- first try growing it. Not sure how the supposedly finicky finnochio will feel about the frisson from flying frozen fragments.

[elleng]

1. Where are you? 90degrees plus in Hagerstown, MD, today!

[beac]

3. Southwest Virginia.

It had been in the high eighties all day and then... WHAMMO!

Almost 90 here today too so all that hail became a slow-release watering system. :)

[elleng]

5. Think I heard rain mid-nite, so between 2 hot hot days!

[noamnety]

2. I got pelted with giant hail today here in Michigan.

I just happened to come inside about 2 minutes before the deluge. I would have had some serious forehead dents if I'd been caught in it.

[beac]

4. We just missed having to drive home in it. Pulled into the driveway

and suddenly it sounded like a thousand angry squirrels were jumping on the car roof.