Spring is here, but that doesn’t mean that cold weather is done
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Looking down into the center of this red tulip at the entrance to Hurley Park. Wayne Hinshaw/for the Salisbury Post
These tulips are at the entraence to Hurley Park. Wayne Hinshaw/for the Salisbury Post
These tulips are at the entrance to Hurley Park. Wayne Hinshaw/for the Salisbury Post
Barbara Floyd and Yonne Raper look over the pansy plants at Godley's Garden Center. Wayne Hinshaw/for the Salisbury Post
Catherine Pagano measures lettuce seeds at Godley's Garden Center. People are purchasing their garden seeds. Cool weather plants like cabbage and onions can be planted if not already planted. Wayne Hinshaw/for the Salisbury Post
Ready or not, today is the first day of spring. Recently, some days are warmish, feeling a bit cozy and lazy like spring, and then the next day cold returns with temperatures teasingly close to freezing.
Our calendars tell us it is spring, but Mother Nature decides when she will turn loose of the coolness of winter and really let us enjoy spring weather.
People are anxious for warm weather and are busy visiting local garden shops to buy vegetable seeds and plants.
We humans are feeling itchy, ready to get our hands in the soil and get our beautiful flowers growing.
Be patient a few more weeks and let the warm weather catch up with the calendar saying it is springtime.
And, by the way, don’t plant your tomato plants yet. It’s too early.
