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Post by moonlilyhead on Jun 10, 2008 18:13:42 GMT -5
I hope everyone in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa are ok with all the flooding!
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Post by flowerpower on Jun 10, 2008 22:11:09 GMT -5
Whenever I see flooding like that, I am glad I live at the top of the mountain. We had a landslide on the back end of our mountain last yr. Luckily, no one got killed with the rocks that came down.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jun 11, 2008 7:37:50 GMT -5
We missed any big rains here, it is actually getting a little dry. We were flooded earlier, seemed like it would never stop. My husband worked yesterday in Bloomington, which is just about a 45 minutes north of us, and they have flooding. Bedfor, which is just about 20 minutes north, didn't get the rain, but is flooded anyway, due to White river that is carrying the floodwaters from other places. This area had just about dried out from the spring, and now the fields are under water again. Maybe even a little higher than when they did get the rain.
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Post by kctomato on Jun 15, 2008 19:02:35 GMT -5
well Ive had enough of rain for now
it rained this AM and then cleared out. That was supposed to be it until next weekend (maybe).
About 30 minutes ago, 15 miles to the west of me a big one formed. It rained like a bull peeing on a flat rock and moved on to haunt Robbins (who has been getting worse than we have).
STrange how Ill miss it come like July 27th or so.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jun 15, 2008 21:16:50 GMT -5
Just started raining here, lots of lightning. Guess I should unplug the computer, oh well. My BIL just got back from a trip to northern IN, and said the flooding is terrible. There is really bad soil erosion just about 45 minutes north of here, with 10 ft gullies going through fields. Said all the houses had their doors open and all their belongings outside with dumpsters all around. I think the prediction was for a severe Midwest drought this year. Makes you wonder what else all the 'weather experts' are wrong about?
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Post by sandbar on Jun 15, 2008 21:26:04 GMT -5
There is a line of severe thunderstorms approaching us within the next hour and a half ... the northern part of the line that PlantsNobin is experiencing. We are fortunate in that we haven't had flooding issues here. Both the house and the farm sit on high land, so our properties are safe.
We are well above normal for rain for the year ... I think 4" or so over. February saw over 5" of rain and we normally get 2.5" that month. We had a half inch in a downpour Saturday afternoon, but it is pretty dried up, now. The soil just soaked everything up after being beat on by 90+ heat for five days.
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Post by flowerpower on Jun 16, 2008 6:33:34 GMT -5
Watch, it will go from one extreme to the other. Today, Indiana is flooding next month it will look like the sahara. Glad to hear all our friends out in the midwest are doing ok. We will be getting rain for the next 5 days. Least the well will be full.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jun 16, 2008 8:31:12 GMT -5
Wow, after I got off the computer last night we had wind. Not just gusts, but bending the trees over kind of winds that lasted. I was sure that we were going to lose a big Bloodgood maple but this morning it looks ok. I hate to even see how many limbs I am going to be picking up from the maples in the front yard. They are always losing limbs, so much so that I would like to cut them down and put in some oaks. Here in southern IN we do always seem to go from one extreme to the other, it is not really an easy place to garden. We can have below zero temps in winter, but they don't usually last long. The problem is we don't have snow cover-except behind my house at Paoli Peaks of course. Then we flood in the spring, get hot and humid but dry in the summer. The last couple of years we have had 90 degrees in April, then a freeze that is really hard on plants. Our last frost date is May 10, but most plants are in full growth before that date. This year I am seeing a lot of dead tree tops in our area, I would imagine from past crazy weather. A lot of fireblight this year too. Still, fruit trees are loaded and if no tragedy befalls my tree, I am on my way to some juicy peaches.
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Jun 16, 2008 15:36:15 GMT -5
I'm working in Martinsville now. There are lots and lots of houses ruined there. The water was across 37 right in the middle of town. There were dumpsters and an ICE machine in the median. There was also a log on the hood of a new truck at one of the car dealerships. WOW.
McDonalds, and BK, the two places I eat the most are shut down.
Crazy weather!
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Post by canadamike on Jun 16, 2008 23:31:34 GMT -5
I might not be in the midwest, but we had it rough a bit here too, altough maybe at a lesser scale. I had planned for a 50 feet tomato cage, 5 feet high, but I dismantled it before completion, 2 tornadoes in a short period of time convinced me it was not safe for the precious corn I am growing right by it, and the taters themselves... It landed close enough twice for a good scare, and after a tornado warning again today I had enough. Should one, or only very gutsy winds hit it, it would make the hell of a mess as it sure is not anchored enough to resist it...
Since when do we have tornadoes here? I guess we have to get used to climate change...
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Post by plantsnobin on Jun 17, 2008 8:16:28 GMT -5
I saw on the weather channel the other night that there was a severe thunderstorm warning/tornado watch for Michigan, and I thought that sounded strange to me. I don't really recall ever hearing about tornados that far north. Bizzards yes, but not really summer storms. I didn't even go to the greenhouse or garden yesterday, but I did see that I have a tree down across the garden. A Paulownia. I have been trying to kill that sucker for years. Not all bad.
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Post by canadamike on Jun 17, 2008 9:56:52 GMT -5
I guess on person's scrap is another one's gold, I always wanted to grow one, but said to myself it will die back to te ground every year. Why did you want to kill it? Some bad / suckering habit?
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Post by stratcat on Jun 17, 2008 13:13:00 GMT -5
Thankfully we've been missing the floods here in mid-Michigan.
We do get tornadoes. On the weekend of June 6th, we had tornado warnings 2 of 3 days for my part of the county. I was out gardening and drove through the storms to Mom's house that has a basement.
Last summer we had an F0 tornado 1/2 mile from Mom's.
Keep an eye on the weather.
john
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Post by grungy on Jun 17, 2008 14:50:14 GMT -5
Michel,
Where the temperature is more mild Paulownia can be come like a weed, with it seems like every seed germinating and starting more trees. However in Canada, with our cooler climates (much like Northern China it will make a beautiful specimen tree. In fact right now I have our local nursery man starting 6 for us and he gets to keep the rest, to grow and sell. We purchased seeds last winter/early spring and the last time I talked to him, they were in stratification. Hopefully next spring we will be the proud possessors of some small trees. If you can keep them alive long enough to get a full tree, they are suppose to produce long straight lumber of good quality in 20 - 25 years.
Cheers,
Val
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Post by plantsnobin on Jun 17, 2008 15:26:06 GMT -5
I grew the Paulownia from seed, I don't think it required stratification for me. They do grow fast, the 8 ft per year is true. Mine didn't die back to the roots this year, in a severe winter they can. The leaves are huge, up to two ft across, easily. The wood is hollow, more like a perennial than a tree. My problem with them is that they sucker terribly. You think you have it killed, and it just comes back even more vigorously. I am fighting them, and a Robinia that are taking over my flower garden. The Robinia is a grafted tree that is root suckering like mad. I know that not every plant that is a problem for one climate will be a problem in another location, so I hope those of you looking forward to growing it will be happy with the outcome. I did notice about a month ago we were coming home from Bloomington and saw some Paulownias blooming along the road, in the wild, not in someone's yard. So they do eventually bloom in our climate. My opinion is that is even worse-now they will be self seeding as well as suckering.
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