Branches could be sprayed with water water, in transitioning to ice, releases its heat of fusion as long as it’s continuously applied. A blanket thrown over a tree would help but my trees are too large and too many. There’s not much to do to avert that frost damage. Cold air is denser than warmer air, so all the cold air flows down slopes to collect in valleys. As in other low-lying locations, on clear, cold nights, a temperature inversion occurs, with heat radiated to the clear sky making ground level temperatures low.
Especially on my farmden, here in the Wallkill River valley. Specifically, the temperature: Frosty weather has the potential to turn blossoms to mush and ruin the chances for fruit. With all this beauty and anticipation, I can periodically forget the pandemic that’s raging beyond my little world here.īut even as my eyes feast on the scene and I forget about the pandemic, I can’t forget about the weather’s ups and downs. My peach tree was grown from seed, so has no name. If all goes well, those blossoms will morph, in coming months, into such delicacies as Hudson’s Golden Gem and Pitmaston Pineapple apples, and Magness, Seckel, and Concorde pears. I’d say almost the same for apples, pears, and plums, their branches laden with clusters of white blossoms.Īnd it’s such a hopeful season. On the one hand, no tree is more beautiful or festive than a peach tree loaded with pink blossoms.
To me, spring can be a manic time of year.
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