Gardening in Utah

Utah has many growing zones
that's Beryl, the purple circle in the southwest corner
says we are zone 5 but everything I plant suitable for zone 5 winter kills
we can't even get lilacs to bloom here.  Fruit trees, people don't even bother to plant because they never blossom enabling them to bear fruit
No we are defiantly a zone 3 here at the farm

 

Well, supposedly it's spring.  Glen and I zipped down to the farm yesterday, we traveled several hours in a snow blizzard, I'm at the farm right now it's 9:00 a.m. about 10 degrees with a cold 25-30 mile hour wind from the north.  I was hoping to get a little gardening prep done before heading to sunny St. George for Glen's school meetings tomorrow thru Wednesday.

 

 

supposedly we are zone 5

 

Here's the list of thing I hope to get done today

 

goats hooves trimmed

sheep sheared

green house tilled and planted

tumbleweeds removed from the front yard

kidding pens built

fire-wood cut and hauled

new battery installed in the expedition so we can take the attached trailer

 full of old antique doors and wood siding we removed from an old house headed for demolition

 a couple of months ago and unload it around back

 

 

 

But it's too cold and windy so I changed my plans---

get done today:

 

go back to the house and have lunch

 in the sun room where it's nice and warm

 

 

 then, sit by the cozy warm fire and read a gardening magazine

or card and spin some wool 

maybe I'll get ambitious and do some spring cleaning

in the house----maybe not

or work on some unfinished remodeling projects

 

that's one thing about gardening in Utah

the spring weather is always unpredictable

 

 

 

 

PROGRESS REPORT:   Just wanted to say we did get the vehicle running so we could get the trailer unloaded, the goats' hooves trimmed, a remodel project done---an antique door fitted and hung, and hauled some wood.  So much for sitting by the cozy warm fire reading a magazine.