Well I can guarantee you that you are right about this season being unusual. Here on the farm we've noticed strange weather all year. The plants started reacting to the weather in mid February as if it was mid autumn. Spring isn't in full bloom yet either. Ground temperatures are lower than any year I can remember for this time of the year. Our Parsnips should have started to re-shoot their leaves but the old ones are still hanging on because again ground temperature is too low. Even our potatoes that we've started harvesting are still in late winter mode. We did get a mild winter though. Almost no frost this year which was good