Plum blossoms hate frost!

While the humans have been frolicing in the warm early spring weather soaking up the sun, so have the plants who we wish had just stayed dormant a little longer. 

So the last post was a bit of an understatement.  With some new calculations, we seem to be about 15 days ahead of 2009 here at Daring Drake Farm.  On Wednesday we had the asian plums starting to bloom and now on Friday we have a few blossoms opening on the american plums.  The day time temperatures are not as conducive to insect pollination, but that will probably not be a real problem.  The potential low temperatures tonight and early next week could be a bad thing.  Hope for a nice steady wind over night and a low above freezing.  Once the fruit sets it is less of a problem.  Spring is always an interesting time.