We're a week or so ahead of last year

This is the time of the year when you're not sure if you should suck the gas out of the snow blower and transfer it to the lawnmower. That's just tempting fate, right?

A calendar check of weather events and how they dictate things in the garden show me that we're about a week or two ahead of last year. But, how many people remember that huge snowstorm that hit York many years ago in mid-March?

Still, the roses are pruned, fertilized and given their iron-clad coat of anti-bug gunk. The newly-planted daffodils in the front yard, however, are far behind these found in a York Township woods.