Koshkonong Creek at Hwy 18.
Koshkonong Creek at Downtown Cambridge, Wisconsin
Last week it rained heavily on top of solidly frozen ground. The result was a lot of localized flooding and ice ponds everywhere. The water had nowhere to escape. Our closest large drainage is Koshkonong Creek which runs more like a ditch under Highway 18 about three blocks west of here, then through downtown Cambridge and on its way to the Rock River and the Mississippi.
Ice Pond
Here’s an ice pond on my property. There are ice ponds everywhere in the area, and unfortunately some serious flooding of buildings and property, not catastrophic, but still very high on the nuisance scale.
Icy Beds
Ice in the Paths
My garden has many ice pathways but I don’t care since its February and I don’t have to worry about the beds until late March. By then we’ll go through multiple freeze and thaws and the raised beds will be nicely drained and ready to work.
I love reading your CobraHead blog and also using the tools. I am fortunate my Queensland Australia-based garden club oders them for us. I wanted to reflect on all the ice in your pictures. Here in Qld it has been an awful February due to intense heat and humidity. I think we both year for autumn and winter from different sides of the planet and for different reasons but both looking forward to gentler weather and healthy colourful and delicious shrubs, flowers and veggies. Thanks, Lynn
Hello Lynn. Thanks for the note. I’m sure I’d rather deal with our cold then the heat Australia has been having to deal with. Here in Wisconsin, we are actually pretty isolated from the worst of things. I hope you have a great garden year and that all our weather eases up a little.