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Post by prairiegardens on Jul 13, 2017 20:03:08 GMT -5
. It was astonishing how much water can be collected off one relatively small roof, should almost be enough to do the garden the rest of the summer from just a couple of days of rain. And here's me i just let the rainwater off the roof just run down onto the ground, mind you, what rain, dont get a lot these days anyway.
Much of NZ had snow over the last few days, managed to miss here thank goodness.If I don't collect it from the roof, I have to haul it from the lake, no easy tap to turn here. I'm trying to grow Glads in lined laundry baskets and they drink like there's no tomorrow. Just hoping some at least will flower, so far no sign, perhaps they don't like being crowded. |
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Post by richardw on Jul 15, 2017 0:27:53 GMT -5
I'm so thankful that i have such abundance of water even though its full of cow shit, free fertilizer.
Gladioli dont mind close planting, my seedlings germinate in spring, flowering by mid summer, and are very closely growing.
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Post by reed on Jul 22, 2017 9:14:25 GMT -5
It's only 10 AM and I just finished my second garden hose shower and second 20 oz bottle of water. Haven't checked the thermometer, it might still be below 90, maybe...
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Post by walt on Jul 22, 2017 12:54:56 GMT -5
Been above 100F daily this week. Cools down to a chilly 75-80 nights. Yes that would be toasty warm in mid winter. But after working in the garden in the heat, it feels a little cold.
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 24, 2017 15:05:57 GMT -5
It was warm and humid (above 90F) every day this past week and a half, but now we're getting a cool rainy spell. Not that it was dry beforehand by any stretch of the imagination. I have watered the garden twice this season, but there was really no need--it rained within the next 48 hours both times.
Been very pleasant, all things considered. The only problem the rain is causing is my molding breadseed poppy heads.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jul 30, 2017 23:13:27 GMT -5
It's been hot for us for four days now, 34c today but thankfully cooling off at night to about 15c. Thunderstorm warning, it's just rolled in, power off twice but only momentarily. So far just wind lightning and thunder, no rain to speak of. It's moving pretty fast so just hoping we get the rain before it goes away so I don't have to water everything tomorrow when it's supposed to get up to 31c again.
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Post by reed on Jul 31, 2017 4:23:40 GMT -5
Our highs for July ranged from 30c to 35c with a few days 35c or better. Maybe one or two days below 30. It has cooled off at night though which is weird for the Ohio valley. Also little to no dew on the grass in the mornings except down by the river itself, very odd. We did get maybe 3/4 inch of rain late last week and it was supposed to be only 26 or so last couple days but it was actually about 31 and it dried right back up.
I planted a little patch of late corn and one of beans. I dug trenches 8 - 10 inches deep and filled with water adding chicken poo for the corn. When it soaked in which didn't take long I put dry dirt in to bring it back up to about 4 inches planting depth and more dry dirt on top. A lot of water down deep, a real pain but it has worked pretty well last couple seasons.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 31, 2017 11:32:48 GMT -5
97 yesterday 103 by Tuesday. Sucks. At least it's cooling off in the evening, down to 60. Winds kicking up again 25mph. HOT, dry and windy....now all we need is some bloody fool with a campfire, firecracker or sparking off with a lawnmower or a string trimmer. Ahh the fire season. Got Marshmallows?
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Post by walt on Jul 31, 2017 14:37:39 GMT -5
Cold here is Kansas. Well, cold for late July. In the high 60s nights. After nights only getting down into the 80s for a while, it is nice to need a blanket.
Very light sprinkles today. Only 1/4 inch in the gauge when I got up. Only about another 1/4 inch now (2:00 PM.) It was enough to soak my shirt when I was watering the garden, but not enough for me to stop watering.
Corn harvest is about over. Corn planting starts again in a week or so. A corn breeder's work is never done.
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Post by farmermike on Aug 4, 2017 13:12:51 GMT -5
I'm still wallowing in the midst of vole onslaught, so I've had no time to post anything, but I had to take a minute to comment on our weird weather.
94F and cloudy the past 2 days! 48% humidity is extraordinarily high for us in the summer. My wife tells me this is what it's like on the east coast.
I have to admit I am enjoying the respite from the sun, though, even if I am drenched in sweat while digging emergency trenches in bone dry clay, to install vole fencing around my garden.
Even felt a couple of rain drops here in Martinez.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 4, 2017 18:26:28 GMT -5
Better than the 104F high earlier this week in the Seattle/Portland area!
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Post by jondear on Aug 4, 2017 18:48:17 GMT -5
We've been having humidity nearing 100%, high in the high 80's with dewpoints in the 60's... It's disgusting sweaty doing anything... We're in need of a good soaking rain.
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Post by steev on Aug 4, 2017 18:50:00 GMT -5
A client told me that the voles are so bad in the Sierra foothills that animal shelters are having a shortage of feral cats; people trap them and bring them in to be neutered, but they usually don't get adopted; these days they're flying out the door like Trumpian press secretaries.
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Post by reed on Aug 5, 2017 5:26:36 GMT -5
Been very hot and dry here. Two days ago it acted like it wanted to rain. Thunder and a little lightening but no rain. Yesterday was high of 81F, 10 - 15 degrees cooler than it had been being and dry wind. This morning it is 57 F. Freakish is the best way to describe it but I'll take advantage of it to do a lot of labor type work. Or maybe go fishing.
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Post by richardw on Aug 6, 2017 3:00:32 GMT -5
Today was really the first day that had that spring feeling, got another four days of high teens C deg temps.
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