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Post by plantsnobin on May 11, 2008 11:25:08 GMT -5
Crazy here in southern IN. April had a couple of days near 90, now in May it's high 40's, low 50's. Very windy today with rain. This weather should be a good test of the cool weather corn germination Alan was hoping for. Seems like it has been raining every weekend for some time now. Not good for plant based businesses. Hope it is going well for others.
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Post by Jim on May 11, 2008 12:47:22 GMT -5
It's about 50 and raining here in SW Michigan. Depressing if you ask me. I will be visiting your fine state on Thursday..Angola Indiana to be precise.
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Post by grungy on May 11, 2008 14:47:59 GMT -5
Cool, wet, ect. In one word - Yuck!
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Post by giardiniere on May 11, 2008 16:32:45 GMT -5
I really don't want to complain about the rain, because about mid June it will turn off and things will get dry, but this is driving me nuts. We've already received over half of our average rainfall for a year. Late yesterday afternoon, we had heavy rainfall and fairly strong winds. I did have one tomato plant broken, but I can't really complain about that.. it could have been much worse. A tornado struck about 25-30 miles south of us, and the last I checked, the death toll was up to 21.
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Post by flowerpower on May 12, 2008 3:44:00 GMT -5
Last week, it was in the 50's-60's during the day. But I had the woodstove going a few nights.
Have there been more tornadoes this yr than others? I am curious if anybody has those undergound storm shelters. I would have a panic attack getting in one of those. I have had claustrophobia since Woodstock '94. It was not a good place for short people.
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Post by plantsnobin on May 12, 2008 7:49:22 GMT -5
Yesterday I actually started a fire in the greenhouse stove while I was working in there. I had to leave a door open for the chicken, but I could still warm my hands up by the stove. That poor hen stays in there because the other chickens hate her for some reason. They all kick her ass if she goes into 'their' territory. We have an old cellar we could go to in case of a tornado. I've never felt claustrophobic in there, but when I worked at the hospital, one night I was taking an elderly woman-who was about to die-upstairs to a room. Her really creepy son was with us, and the elevator got stuck. I hate elevators anyway. Of course it is nighttime and there is no maintence there, so we ended up being stuck for about 45 minutes. I just knew she was going to code, or he was going to try to rape me or something. I HATE elevators.
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Post by johno on May 12, 2008 9:55:46 GMT -5
Have there been more tornadoes this yr than others? I haven't kept track of how it relates to other years, but tornados have been very destructive in Arkansas this year. We had one the night before last that ran several miles north of my place - just a few limbs down here. But a couple of weeks ago there was a string of them running n-s through the state and moving east (as usual.) We had to go to Little Rock that morning, so we watched the radar until we could travel just behind them. I think there were around 20 deaths that morning.
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Post by Alan on May 14, 2008 13:16:02 GMT -5
The weather here in southern Indiana this year has been nothing short of a major pain in the ass. Cold and wet, hot and windy, cold and wet, hot and windy. I've had poor germination on so many things it's not even funny any more. Luckily I got everything I needed to replanted so hopefully it will take this time!
This year was definetly a good year to do selection on cool soil emergence traits in corn and I think Astronomy Domine will be that much better because of it, so there are pros and cons.
Anybody having any problems with cole crops bolting already this year?
I have noticed a number of plants trying to bolt already so I am being vigilant and keeping them pulled out, I don't want their poor pollen traits transferring to the plants that I will produce seed for.
A couple more f-d up years like this with selection pressures and surely I'll have a variety of every crop that will live and produce terrifically come hell or high water, it does make for more work but in the long run it is good for us to have these natural selection criteria to work with to prepare for a further out of whach future environment.
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Post by plantsnobin on May 14, 2008 14:41:23 GMT -5
You know, with the weather going back and forth so much, and the earthquakes and cyclones, it really makes you stop and think just how close many people could be to starvation very quickly. Now, I'm not talking biblical end of times here, (not a believer), but I just mean that a little bit of bad weather and there goes the crop for the year. We did have a minor earthquake here just last month. It easily could have been worse. I'm country folk, and I am not prepared to take care of my families food needs yet. Can't imagine what city folks would do. We do raise chickens, and have pigs for 4H projects, but when you really look around at what all you aren't providing for yourself, it is a little overwhelming. And then there is the price of gas, which is $3.95 here today. Good time to be planting a garden. A big garden. Well, that is if it would stop raining....
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