LEEKS: We had one last tidbit from Andy Heffner from when we talked about him the other day.

When Andy was a kid, his dad would always tell him that leeks will cure the flu.

Andy came down with the flu recently, and, without telling Andy he was going to do it, one of his sons dug up some leeks for him.

“I ate the leeks. It took care of the flu, all right,” he tells us.

Another thing his mother would do is crush garlic and put it in his socks when he was sick. She’d also put a sock with crushed garlic and butter and put it around his neck. It helped if he was sick with something that made it hard to breath, like the croup.

Leek season is just around the corner now. It’s about time for us to pull out our shovels and our leek recipes.

SPRING: Speaking of seasons, AccuWeather reports that the threat of snowfall will last into March.

(Do you ever remember a Bradford winter that was over before March? We don’t.)

“In the Northeast, we aren’t expecting an immediate flip to springlike weather on March 1,” said Max Vido, a long-range meteorologist at AccuWeather. “However, once we get to the later parts of March and the beginning of April, we’re expecting a faster transition to spring than last year,”

Vido is expecting this year to be a little drier than than 2018, though some severe weather may befall the northeastern United States in late April and May.

The Farmers’ Almanac is calling for snow into April, and for a wet May, with colder air around Memorial Day.

It may be a little early yet to plan, but are readers starting to think about what they want to put in their gardens this year? The soggy weather this week really makes us miss the beauty and warmth of summertime.