Being very cold

[Mortblanc]

What CH says is the norm. It just seems spring will never come this year for some reason, but it is a mental lapse to feel spring is late.

Snow in April is not unusual, nor are freezing temps, it happens every year. We do not plant here until Mothers' Day and everyone seems to forget that. We can have killing frosts right up to that date. MD is 13, May this year, so a sudden last frost is still up to a month ahead of us.

You do not put your garden in early here because it will die. Simple as that. No poly tunnels or hot boxes are going to keep your seedlings alive in our late snows and deep freezes.

As for world wide famine and scarcity, I don't think so. It is the WEATHER, it does not run on the German railway schedule. Never has, never will!

It is just a normal winter and everyone needs to get over their "winter will never end" depression. You folks have had your first real winter in a decade over there, so expectations of world wide famine, crop failure, and plague have kicked in due to being imprinted in your collective memory.

Your empty shelves are probably due to a trucker strike in New Deli or a flood on the Amazon. There is also that thing that happened during that last snow storm scare where all the milk, bread and eggs disappeared (a world wide phenom), it might take some time to restock due to that.

You might want to do an quick inventory of what items are short, home grown or imported?