We went from snow to a huge wind/dust/flying dirt storm
50 mile per hour winds beat us up all day Monday and into Monday night with a bitter cold front right behind it.
41* today.
Still the onion farmers have their seeds in the ground and a call has been made on the ditch for water so planting has gotten started.
Those that are still behind because of too much mud will have to put onion sets in the ground instead of seeds. Sets are very labor intensive, having to be planted all by hand, but it still gives them a crop.
The early sweet corn guys are just about ready to plant, just waiting for the canals to fill. Most sweet corn farmers water first and then plant. Sweet corn is not frost tolerant. The watering first allows the season to move a little more closer to steady warm weather.
We are at a standstill. Terry likes to have the corn in and its little heads poking up by the second week in May. He also likes to water first and then plant, but if he has to he will plant and then water the corn up. The second way produces lots more weeds, but it will also protect the baby plants.
Think Spring…
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Thinking spring and hoping hard that you get the weather you need! Too muddy here to even think about beginning, although the Amish in some places, and the folks with sandy ground have a little bit worked up.
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Oh boy, your weather seems as unpredictable as ours.
Sweet corn, Yummy! Thinking Spring, for ya!
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We have stinkin cold wind too
snow covered the ground this morning
yuck
at least we don’t have the dirt flying around…yet
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If we think hard enough about Spring do you think we might finally see it?! I hope it warms up soon so everybody can get their crops in.
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Thinking Spring for you all!!
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Wind is an awful enemy when the fields are freshly planted. All that investment can end up in someone elses’ farm or pasture. Hope the weather mellows out soon for you and for us.
We had so much snow that some schools were closed because the plows could not clear the road in time for the buses to run. Better but still yucchy weather this pm.
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I’ve seen oats being planted here! Others still need to harvest last years corn. After an unusually wet fall where farmers could not harvest at will they then had to watch while snow storm after snow storm buried them. Iowa had 800,000 acres of unharvested corn going into the winter. We are all thinking spring too. Thanks for the post.
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Being on the front range (east side of the Rockies), we got the wind a day late. But it’s here, and with a huge ferociousness. I can see birds flying backwards here, and tumbleweed moving faster than cars. Our “new” house has obvious leakage problems, and the sound of the whistling wind is starting to muddle my thinking. I want to start getting some plants in the ground but between the wind, the lack of a perimeter fence and not able to amend the soil yet… I try to get the corn started in flats indoors the second week in May, and get them in the ground on Memorial Day weekend. I plant corn that doesn’t need a long season to get to harvest.
I too wish the winds would go and Spring would come but in a calmer way! Vikki at http://vikkisverandah.blogspot.com
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I’m thinking of spring for you, Linda! It’s been in the mid-90’s here – a surprise heat wave! I’m loving it! 🙂
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Wind is not a very good combination with flat ground. I can remember when I lived back home in Illinios and getting really bad wind storms with the rain and it would lay our corn right to the ground not pretty. I sure am thinking spring for you! Glad to know that at least the snow is gone. You take care and I will be praying for good weather for you!
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For the first time in over 100 years we didn’t get any snow in March, which means it has been dry here. I think your wind pushed some rain our way and we are grateful for that!! Happy Spring!
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Boy, you get some serious weather there. Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather changes for you, and the sun shines! Blessings from Maine.
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You have had crazy weather this year. I don’t remember it being so crazy last year. Thanks for the beans.
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Oh Linda, I am so sorry that you are still getting so much ‘winter’ weather… We have had almost summer-like weather this past week… SO different from you. I am so sorry… Hopefully soon, spring will come to you!!! I am ‘thinking spring’ for you!!!
Hugs,
Betsy
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I’ve been hearing about your weather. I don’t like those winds at all. Makes my mare crazy too. It’s been unseasonably warm here even going up into the 80s on a record breaking day but still nothing goes into the ground until the 1st of June because of frost. So different here on the border of Canada. I love your photos.
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Just when you think things can’t get worse…..it does. Hope the weather improves fast. Good luck with the corn. I had corn for lunch today.
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Send that wind south and NOT north eh! I hope Terry gets to farm the way he needs to. I find men much easier to get along with in the spring when that happens 😉
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I do hope things cooperate so you can get to planting! It is 93 degrees today…very unseasonable, and will be back down to 63 by Friday.
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As always, so informative. I did not know that about the water and seed order.
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