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Here's official winter weather forecast for Tucker's Station Farm

Barbara has split several persimmon for winter weather prophecy, and she warns, "Folks, it doesn't look good". And the hornet's nest rest is no more reassuring.
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By Barbara Armitage

This is a new one to me. Forecasting winter weather using persimmon seeds.

All my friends know that I love this kind of stuff. If I spent as much time knitting scarves as I do hunting whooly worms every fall I'd be a lot warmer come winter - no matter how big the brown stripe. I've counted the fogs in August and rings around the moon but splitting persimmon seeds was a new one for me.



It just so happens that I have a persimmon tree in the yard and it's loaded with ripe persimmons right now. Barbara's husband and I decided that we'd give this new information a go so we picked a coupla hands full. Splitting the seeds wasn't as easy as you might think, first off they're slippery little devils so you have to give them a really good scrub. Thankfully I have wicked sharp kitchen knives and nerves of steel so I managed to split 5 or 6 of them. I figured that was enough to show a trend. Just to be real scientific about all this I followed the directions from the Farmer's Almanac.
  1. Cut open a persimmon seed. (Find persimmon fruit in your supermarket. It should be locally-grown to reflect your weather). My seeds came from my own front yard - it doesn't get any more local than that.
  2. Look at the shape of the kernel inside.
    • If the kernel is spoon-shaped, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall. Spoon = shovel!
    • If it is fork-shaped, you can expect powdery, light snow and a mild winter.
    • If the kernel is knife-shaped, expect to be "cut" by icy, cutting winds.
    It's best to use ripe seeds.
  3. That's it! Now, what did you see?
Every single seed was the same - a spoon, big as life. I told Barbara's Husband to go ahead and get the snow shovel out and put it on the porch so we'd be ready. There is one other winter weather prophecy that has me worried. "See how high the hornet's nest, 'twill tell how high the snow will rest". Just yesterday I found a huge hornets' nest under the eave of the back porch. It's not lookin' good folks.


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Persimmon seed predicts hard winter



2014-09-24 - 1535 Bull Run Road, Columbia, KY - Photo By Barbara Armitage.
If the Farmer's Almanac is right
about this it'll be a great winter for sledding! - Barbara Armitage

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