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Post by RocketMan on Aug 16, 2012 23:29:57 GMT -6
we got another t-storm last night. The lightening and thunder woke me up and that's unusual for me. But it was so loud and unusual. Someone send us some warm air, I'll trade you for our cool air. It's only 66 out and breezy. I used to live just north of you in manitoba for many years. I really miss the lightening and thunder storms!!!
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Post by wchnu on Aug 17, 2012 13:33:51 GMT -6
Rain in Mississippi. I am here at the farm for my Grandmother's 90th bday. Drove up from South Louisiana early early this morning. Not as hot today.
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Post by wchnu on Aug 17, 2012 19:28:24 GMT -6
I might not be in heaven but I am close. Sitting out front of the family place on the farm in Mississippi. Issaquena county to be exact. There is a big band of heavy thunderstorm keeping the temp down, and a great lighting show out across the corn fields. Sucks to not be Fuzzy tonight.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Aug 17, 2012 21:59:07 GMT -6
Big ***t eatin' grin for you about that one WCHNU! Enjoy!
We've gotten almost 4" of rain in the last week and a half (guess as to the time factor) so our drought has broken and soon we'll get the autumn rains. But the heat and humidity persist, but that should change soon also as the air from the north fights and beats the air from the south. A harbinger of things to come.
We missed our harvest of blueberries this year. No big deal, the harvest wasn't going to be as big as years past and with the rain the birds got the berries. They got out there and we didn't, it's that simple.
The garden still hasn't produced anything, but I got it in a month late because of monsoon rains so we'll be racing the first frost. We preserved as much of last years harvest as possible so we won't be short, it just would have been nice to have some of the things that the dogs enjoy eating fresh. I doubt we'll have those in the quantity that I wanted. They love the Nero Tondo (black Spanish) radishes for a night time treat.
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Post by Alan on Aug 18, 2012 6:47:51 GMT -6
It's been overcast here for about 3 days, it even rained, so the temp has been down quite a bit. 98 on Thursday and about 94 yesterday. The monsoons are back. It 's supposed to rain off and on all weekend. A bit humid but that's better than roasting in the sun.
Picking blueberries, that brings back memories. I can remember when I was a kid my mom and aunt would take us blueberry picking in the forest every year. The kids would eat more than they picked but we still came home with many pails full. The berries were so thick you could grab a branch at the bottom and just pull it through youre hand to the tip; the berries would pop off into the pail (metal pails, no plastic back then). For the next couple of weeks we'd have blueberry cupcakes, blueberry pancakes, blueberries on our cereal, etc.
Alan
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Post by ShadowsDad on Aug 18, 2012 10:16:22 GMT -6
That's the way our harvests have been for the past few years Alan, from our highbush berries. But this year has just been a bad year for everything that grows. I bought a blueberry rack last year, one designed for highbush berries and what took a few days of picking I can now pick in a little over an hour. Last year we got 9-10 gallons (I don't remember) of washed, cleaned, and picked over berries. I was making jam (13 pints) out of the frozen excess the other day, and we still have more in the freezer. Since we missed this years harvest they'll stay right there for the winters blueberry cakes and such.
I'm still giving the dogs the berries from 2010s harvest.
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Post by Alan on Aug 25, 2012 7:02:57 GMT -6
It's been about a week since I posted in this thread. The weather has been great for this time of year, the monsoons came back. Most of the time it was overcast. This kept the temp down to low 90s. We had a couple of afternoons where it got humid but nothing unbearable. It rained somewhere in the valley at least once a day; a lot of thunderstorms and water. Everyone enjoyed it while they could.
Dryer weather expected starting tomorrow with temps back at 105.
Alan
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Post by stljeff on Aug 25, 2012 9:37:09 GMT -6
We had a very nice stretch of weather in the 80s for about a week. After the first couple of days of this week, we started the climb back to the mid to upper 90s. At least it hasn't reached the 100s yet; I think we've had something like 20 days of temps above that mark so far this summer. The humidity has been down most of the week but now it's beginning to climb to the level that's so characteristic of St. Louis summers.
Fall can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned. It's my favorite season of the year and one of the most tolerable ones around these parts weather-wise.
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Post by wchnu on Aug 25, 2012 20:28:25 GMT -6
Rain again today. We are watching out for Issac. Should not be too bad here but never know when they get in the Gulf what might happen. Did some mowing today and the humidity was a killer grrrr.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Aug 26, 2012 0:58:21 GMT -6
Weather channel plus personal Ag' report...
We're in the 80s during the day, but at night the temps tell us autumn is coming. Tonight it's in the 60s and maybe dipping into the 50s. I long for it. Harvest of the (terrible) garden approaches. A lot of the terrible harvest is our fault, some is the weather. We need to fence in our entire garden to keep the guinea hens from decimating it. They destroyed the Kale, cabbage, broccoli, spanish radishes, lettuce, and the weather made sure not a single snap pea germinated and not enough of a row of stringbeans germinated to keep me from 'tilling them under. Yes, I watered the seeds. Then our weather took it's toll. We had really strange weather that affected germination, then a drought, now we're OK.
The experimental Fava beans appear to be doing great.
I've never seen a Tomato Hornworm in my life, but in 2 days have removed at least 40 from the tomatoes on my deck (the chickens love them). I haven't checked the garden tomatoes yet.
We were a month late in planting due to monsoons, and because of that we're racing the calendar for ripe tomatoes. We'll get some, we just don't know when the first frost will hit and destroy the crop. Hopefully it'll hold off. Typically anytime beyond Labor Day we can get a killing frost. But we're always in hope of global warming. The corn is coming too. Any day now we should get the first full ears. If the weather holds it'll be our best crop of the year.
So far the chickens have only produced replacements for the losses if the 2 chicks are both hens. It's getting late in the season for other hens to go broody. The Guinea Hens haven't produced any progeny yet this year either. but we think we have 3 hens sitting on eggs, but can't find them. It'll be great fun having maybe 30 guinea hens in a coop designed for a maximum of 10. Spring will not come fast enough if that happens.
Hey, stay tuned for the Central Maine Weather and Ag' reort!
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Post by wchnu on Aug 26, 2012 12:52:49 GMT -6
Our tomatoes did not do good this year at all. They grew beautiful plants but no fruit. The cucumbers were the same. Normally we grow a lot of them this year they did not make.
We made a good squash crop and a lot of egg plants. The peas did good as well as the corn. But the pepper plants and string beans did not.
Strange garden year.
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Post by ShadowsDad on Aug 26, 2012 15:31:01 GMT -6
I noticed that the tops of our deck tomato plants were denuded the other day, so suspected Tomato Hornworm. In 50 years of gardening I've never seen one. Over the past 2 days I've removed and killed at least 50 from the 3 plants. They aren't on the tomatoes in the garden, only on the deck.
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Post by wchnu on Aug 26, 2012 15:48:58 GMT -6
I noticed that the tops of our deck tomato plants were denuded the other day, so suspected Tomato Hornworm. In 50 years of gardening I've never seen one. Over the past 2 days I've removed and killed at least 50 from the 3 plants. They aren't on the tomatoes in the garden, only on the deck. We get those some years down here. Not in the last couple though. They can really tear up the plants.
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Post by dickdekoko on Aug 26, 2012 19:51:30 GMT -6
Can't wait until Fall!
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Post by wchnu on Aug 26, 2012 21:20:00 GMT -6
At 7pm tonight it was still 90 here. Grrrrrr sticky weather ahead of the storms.
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