Post by cff on Nov 9, 2008 0:46:32 GMT -5
I've noticed some strange things over the past two years of heat and drought here in the south and I wonder if some of them are common to drought years.
Last year was the hottest summer I ever remember here, over a 100 days of triple digit temperatures caused our onions and garlic to rot in the ground - tomatoes blistered on the vine and that normally tuff okra only grew two foot tall and some of it actually died in the field.
This season wasn't as hot but it was sure just as dry as last year, the drought killed some of the trees here and when we did get a little rain in late summer the white oak acorn trees produced such a crop of acorns that it broke limbs off the trees. Several of our pecan trees did the same thing and one broke apart from the bumper crop of pecans so badly it killed the tree.
Anyone else in drought stricken areas see anything like this now or in the past?
Last year was the hottest summer I ever remember here, over a 100 days of triple digit temperatures caused our onions and garlic to rot in the ground - tomatoes blistered on the vine and that normally tuff okra only grew two foot tall and some of it actually died in the field.
This season wasn't as hot but it was sure just as dry as last year, the drought killed some of the trees here and when we did get a little rain in late summer the white oak acorn trees produced such a crop of acorns that it broke limbs off the trees. Several of our pecan trees did the same thing and one broke apart from the bumper crop of pecans so badly it killed the tree.
Anyone else in drought stricken areas see anything like this now or in the past?
