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Post by philagardener on Feb 2, 2016 6:42:37 GMT -5
I expect to be planting peas in 5 to 7 weeks. Spring can't come soon enough for me!  |
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Post by reed on Feb 2, 2016 7:15:56 GMT -5
It's starting to feel rather spring like already here. Supposed to be in the 70s today with storms coming in later. I got some partially assembled cold frames I need to get taken back apart and put inside before I leave for work or they might not be here when I get home.
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Post by gilbert on Feb 2, 2016 11:58:53 GMT -5
Looks like we got about a foot of snow here.
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Post by steev on Feb 2, 2016 12:25:48 GMT -5
Drizzly here; helper didn't show; good day to get the p'up smogged.
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Post by richardw on Feb 2, 2016 13:17:19 GMT -5
Great seed gathering weather here ATM, about 30C and low humidity and then a light breeze later in the afternoon that i use to blow off the chaff, kale radish pea seed was picked processed and bagged in the one day, fava and onion is today's job. Just being out as the sun was coming up with my sieve&salt sprinkling it over unwanted weeds, only works when there's a dew first thing in the morning
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Post by gilbert on Feb 2, 2016 18:57:25 GMT -5
Hi Richard,
Do you have any problems with salt buildup from doing that, or not?
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Post by gilbert on Feb 2, 2016 23:03:54 GMT -5
It will be six degrees tonight, with a windchill down to -3 F. It is weird that it was 65 F only a few days ago.
Last year, it got up to 80 degrees in mid February, and then we got our last snow on Mothers day. Most fruit trees in Denver lost the whole crop.
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 3, 2016 1:38:00 GMT -5
Gilbert, We've had a lot of up and down too. Not really much rain, as Steev says, it's mostly a drizzle here and a drop there, no really big gully washers...I guess Flowerweaver took all of those. But it was 68 degrees one day and 40 today. Yikes, I had to dig out sweaters! I keep putting off seed starting as I need the sprout house to be at least 50! (Friday looks good for this!)
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Post by steev on Feb 3, 2016 2:49:16 GMT -5
Weird weather, indeed; hasn't gone <24F on the farm all Winter (that's 10F above normal); further weird is that my early peach, which normally pops its first bloom ~15 Jan, didn't do it until 31 Jan; don't recall it ever being so late.
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Post by richardw on Feb 3, 2016 12:23:40 GMT -5
Hi Richard, Do you have any problems with salt buildup from doing that, or not? No because we are on alluvial deposits from the alps, the salts will just get washed away by the underground streams |
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Post by gilbert on Feb 3, 2016 12:33:32 GMT -5
OK, that makes sense. Here in the Denver area I would probably run into trouble with salt. Though I have heard that asparagus likes it, and if you add it to the asparagus bed it will eliminate all the other weeds. Maybe something I should look into.
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Post by richardw on Feb 3, 2016 19:06:48 GMT -5
gilbert is Denver not situated on alluvial deposits from the Rockies
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Post by gilbert on Feb 3, 2016 20:16:25 GMT -5
Hello Richard,
I guess it is technically. But the soil is heavy, sticky clay, and the climate is quite dry. We only get 15 inches in an average year. And most of that just evaporates again. So I don't imagine much leaching would occur. (Even with the dry climate, the heavy soil makes for pooling water every spring; water just does not penetrate. Under some conditions, it can be dryer further down then it is on top.) Also, soils here tend to be alkaline and saline to start with.
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Post by steev on Feb 8, 2016 20:19:41 GMT -5
Temps here seem to have lurched up 10F degrees; having been up to normal-to-date rainfall, we are falling behind again; worrying since the warmer temps mean the Sierra snowpack isn't as likely to last as well into the dry season.
On the farm, Sunday's min/max were 40F/70F. When I looked around Friday, a patch where I'd thickly sowed aging onion/leek seed had a sprout here, another over there, about what I'd feared from old seed; Sunday afternoon, it looked like a lawn, even patches of crusty soil being lifted up. Want to start a pool on what % of these I separate and transplant?
There was a Mourning Cloak butterfly floating around; may not have seen one of those since I lived in Paso Robles, ~350 miles south of the farm.
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Post by ilex on Feb 10, 2016 4:26:57 GMT -5
Beating record on consecutive days without rain, and that in our wet season. Volunteer tomatoes setting fruit when we should see frost every other day. Some fig trees with leaves.
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