sheer curtains or clear plastic over my plants. Would that help? The plastic is pretty good at keeping things warm. How tall are your trees? Would it be feasible to put something over them or around the blossoms and starting fruit?

I've got over 100 fruit trees, most are standards.

I'll monitor it, and if it looks like I may be able to save them, I'll go out around 3:00 in the morning and hose everything so it has a good coating of ice. That helps a lot.

Mostly, though, at this point, I'm hoping that they are wrong.

I hope that they are wrong too---but it IS early and frosts and cold weather are still a real possibility.

Good luck.

In February our actual low temps ran from 19F to 50F with high temps from 36F to 77F. Big fluctuations. Our averages for the same month are lows around 30-33 and highs in the upper 50's. Everything bloomed early from daffodils on February 1 to the forsythia bush which had already bloomed and dropped it's petals a week before it's average bloom time. I think I saw blackberry vines blooming yesterday! The fruit trees have been blooming for a few weeks now. From the forecasts I've been seeing, the fruit crop may be safe this year. People have been mowing their lawns for a couple of weeks now.

We don't normally have hard winters here, but this has been an unusually mild winter. After the horrible summer we had last year (35 days in a row of 100F+ with an all time record high of 115F), a lot of us are dreading what may be coming this year. I can't say for sure what the causes are, but I haven't heard much from the "where's your global warming now" crowd.