Green Bluff Farmers Face Fruit Loss Due to Cold Weather

[EarthAbides]

Source: KXLY

Cherry and peach trees at Green Bluff are not expected to bear fruit this year due to a cold snap in December.

Every summer, thousands of families from the area have cherished the tradition of visiting Green Bluff. However, this season, families visiting will discover they won't be able to pick any cherries or peaches.

"The cold snap this year was just kind of brutal, and farming is that way,” shared Craig Deitz, Bodacious Berries Fruits and Brews owner. Also mentioning that all of the farmers at Green Bluff are facing this similar reality.

Read more: https://www.kxly.com/news/green-bluff-farmers-face-fruit-loss-due-to-cold-weather/article_44339d30-1a2d-11ef-8257-ab36cea02921.html

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I did not expect climate change to affect us this way here in Spokane, WA. Our winters have gotten a lot milder these last few years, barely any snow. We have been having a lot more rain and right now we are living through a pretty cold May. (Feels like March)

[Kali]

1. I could see a cold snap in March or even Feb being a problem, but

December? don't most of those types of fruit trees need cold in winter?

also thanks for mentioning what state this is. hate datelines that only give local location and not the state.

[LeftInTX]

3. It was unusually warm and trees had not entered dormancy when the cold snap happened.

December freezes have killed stuff for me here in Texas. (Our Decembers tend to be naturally warm)

Then it happened to me this year when January was too warm. Then we had a sudden cold snap in January. I ended up losing all the Mexican Bush Sage that I planted last fall. Go figure....All five plants never grew back!

[Prairie_Seagull]

2. Welcome aboard EarthAbides

I am down the hill from you on the Peone Prairie.

Fewer peaches. Say it ain't so.

Don't get me started on the wildfires last year and horrible smoke in years past. Time to head up north for summer. Wait they had horrible fires also.

[EarthAbides]

4. Sacramento

Thank you! I am originally from Sacramento and I am watching the weather slowly evolve into Sacramento's, just a little colder. I was surprised that the cold that did the fruit trees in was in December, I mean, it has been brutally cold this spring! I am a member of a Spokane Gardening Group on FB and everyone is dismayed with our weather this spring. Warm and mild one day and then we plummet 10 degrees for the next few days. It's truly a rubber band effect!

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. That is so funny, maybe not though.

I got my swimming creds in the American river in Sac. Not to far from the confluence of the SAC and the American rivers. Spent a couple years there in middle school.

Que twilight zone theme.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. I lost all my early blooming plum trees

They would flower in March then a sudden bad freeze would kill all the buds. It finally wiped out my last tree this year.

Luckily, there are late blooming plum trees, I can replace them with.