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Post by steev on Nov 21, 2014 12:00:36 GMT -5
Looks like there's been enough rain in the farm that I'll chance planting out some of my potted stone pines and roses, giving them an early enough start on decent roots to survive next Summer's heat.
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Post by flowerweaver on Nov 21, 2014 19:21:24 GMT -5
Good for you steev! Here it's dry, swinging from a couple of days around 27 F ("feels like 18") back to t-shirt and sandal weather. Sometimes I envy you folks that can put away your hoses for the entire season. Here, it's drain and reconnect, drain and reconnect.
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Post by reed on Nov 22, 2014 4:47:26 GMT -5
We are getting a little bit of a warm up from a few especially cold days and our 5 or so inches of snow is melting. Was gonna finish getting my fire wood sorted and stacked but it is raining so I'll probably just stay in and dissect corn kernels.
Got nine broccoli plants that I started in Sept that look like they survived the cold snap, down to 8 F one morning. Don't know what they are but probably green sprouting or purple sprouting or a store bought hybrid. Or some mix. If they make it all winter they won't be eaten just saved for seed. All the Long Island Brussels Sprouts look pretty good. I'm going to try to develop things that if not productive in the winter at least live through it so I can harvest super early the next spring without the bother of bugs and droughts.
Floweaver , yea we can mostly just forget it during winter but I bet you can keep growing lots of good stuff.
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Post by steev on Nov 22, 2014 22:23:49 GMT -5
Had rained .55" during the week, on the farm; another .1" last night. Uncommonly foggy this morning as I walked back to check the stock-pond; there are now 5 elk lurking in the back acres; really pretty nifty, these huge primeval beasts looming in the mist. They rip up the bags of bunny-bedding, high-grading for chow, when I'm not around; I know when it's them by the size of the smart pills. The stock-pond has water in the cracks between the algae-reinforced mud.
This rain is perfect for my hope of re-tilling and planting grains next week. I need much more, though, to recharge the soil. Planting trees, I found that only ~the top 6" is damp, below which it's bone-dry.
During the past week, it dropped to 32F, putting all the warm-season plants out of their misery.
I'd put new flannel sheets on the pump-house bunk, added a comforter, and then the opened sleeping-bag; even with one open vent-window, I slept all night, very snuggy. I love this time of year.
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Post by flowerweaver on Nov 23, 2014 18:30:47 GMT -5
Humongous storm across Texas last night, only gifted us with .2" The dogs have become fearful of storms since the tornado. Watched a vortex waltz across the radar in the county below. reed our best growing season often is winter. My first round of greens were eaten by insects which has never happened at this time of year before so I have another round hardening off. I'm not putting too much in. Mostly I think I'm having delayed exhaustion from summer's trauma.
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Post by reed on Nov 23, 2014 19:37:21 GMT -5
Flowerweaver, I think we are getting your storm right now except less storm more rain for us. Looked a little bit ago at weather.gov, don't think I ever saw such a HUGE area all covered with rain at the same time. All of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Most of Tennessee, into Ohio, the Virginias and Carolinas. Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota. One BIG BUTT gob of rain. Wish I could send some to you and Steev.
My dog is scared too, a particularly exciting bolt of lightening a couple years ago did it for her.
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Post by flowerweaver on Nov 23, 2014 22:10:07 GMT -5
reed yeah, that storm covered half of Texas. The previous couple storms started just below me in Mexico and went all the way up into the Great Lakes and Canada in one unbroken string. I don't ever remember storms of this size before. After my summer experience, I have the feeling we're all in for 'weather adventures'.
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Post by reed on Nov 24, 2014 7:09:00 GMT -5
New and exciting weather adventures from now on I'm afraid. Part of why I want short as possible season for everything I grow, less time from planting to harvest greater chance I'll actually get something.
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Post by flowerweaver on Nov 24, 2014 13:15:03 GMT -5
I'm thinking the same thing! Shorter = harvest before catastrophe.
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Post by ferdzy on Nov 25, 2014 10:33:12 GMT -5
Well, last week we got 16" of snow. The last two or three days it all melted, leaving just the odd patch. Temperatures got up to 11°C, but today it's back to freezing with snow flurries. Will probably take this opportunity to have one last crack at the leeks and carrots. Weather in Canada; ya gotta love it. (Why!?)
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Post by RpR on Nov 29, 2014 13:12:47 GMT -5
I am thinking of spring. Half of our 15 inches has either sank into the unfrozen ground or melted during a few above freezing days of which one is coming tomorrow.
I am hoping for continued winter cold, even this early so the ground does not have deep frost which makes for earlier planting if warm weather comes.
Another nice 15 inch snowstorm would be nice as the first is now hard snow and another would be like a comforter over a sheet. Just got the snowblower back from repair so I should not have to clear snow the armstrong method for the rest of the winter.
Thank God I got all flowers either cut down or covered the day before the first storm came.
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Post by zeedman on Nov 30, 2014 1:37:03 GMT -5
We just had our first day above the freezing mark since the polar vortex dropped down. Everything was snow covered over Thanksgiving, it looked more like Christmas. Hopefully our weather will be returning to a normal pattern now... I don't want to see a repeat of last winter, the frost was very deep, many water lines were burst or frozen.
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Post by synergy on Nov 30, 2014 11:55:23 GMT -5
Tis the season for pruning and hauling water buckets here now , freezing cold. My kitchen looks like an animal rescue with all the water buckets and bottles defrosting .
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Post by reed on Nov 30, 2014 21:21:49 GMT -5
We had high 75F with strong gusts of wind all day. Week or so ago we had highs in low 20s. I can't get adjusted when it's so different in such short periods of time. If it stayed warm I can handle it, if it got cold and stayed cold I can handle that but the back and forth stuff gets on my nerves.
On the bright side the wind was strong enough to deliver lots of good kindling to the ground all I gotta do is go pick it up.
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Post by flowerweaver on Nov 30, 2014 21:38:27 GMT -5
reed your weather is sounding more and more like ours!
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