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Post by Gianna on Nov 4, 2017 1:01:32 GMT -5
We went from 100*F for several days about 10 days ago, to 'fall' almost overnight. Glad it's cooler now. One hundred degrees in October when the sun can stream into the windows is no fun.
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Post by richardw on Nov 4, 2017 3:21:29 GMT -5
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Post by reed on Nov 4, 2017 3:25:46 GMT -5
We had several days of cool and two nights with light freeze. Going back up into high 70s low 80s next couple days. We did have a nice rain that softened the ground up. Glad of that cause some fancy new Asian Pear trees arrived yesterday, I can get them in the ground as soon as the sun comes up, just gotta figure out where.
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Post by richardw on Nov 5, 2017 13:14:07 GMT -5
After a week of humid sub tropical air we now have about 5 days of air from Antarctica, going to have to watch out for frost as everything frost tender is planted out apart from pumpkins that are still in pots in the tunnelhouse  |
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Post by reed on Nov 5, 2017 17:24:14 GMT -5
Warm and windy here, low to mid 70s and cloudy all day. Distant thunder of and on but rain never arrived, at least not yet.
Beautiful place ya got there Richard.
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Post by steev on Nov 5, 2017 20:08:09 GMT -5
Ditto, reed; those are some fine mountains, richardw.
No snow on the Coast Range yet, but I always hope to see it before Thanksgiving (end of November).
Been no rain on the farm; storms coming from Alaska get deflected by the Coast Range; the Pineapple Express from Hawaii is what works for me.
Barely into the 70's, so lovely for work; time to clear the weeds out of the planting lanes and start Sukie chewing up the new-sprouting weeds as they rear their unwelcome heads.
Dropping into the 30's at night; do I love it? Is the Pope in the woods?
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Post by RpR on Nov 6, 2017 23:41:54 GMT -5
Well it is 20 F here now and the weatherman has been wrong beyond 12 hours, but late fall is here and it will be cold one.
Good thing, if the ground freezes it is wet.
I finished all my major garden work yesterday, covered my roses in the south garden. The weather was in the 30s and all was wet but once you get going it is odd how you ignore the weather though I was actually wearing a jacket and not just a vest.
I do have two potato plants, volunteers I forgot to dig up and am not sure if I want to break through frozen ground, if it freezes, or just let them sit and see what come up next year.
Sadly I had a large crop of volunteer ground cherries but where they grew in the rose garden, the ground had an inch or more of wet leaves and I did not want to waste an hours sifting through wet leaves and muddy ground to find the good ones.
Ate a couple I did find.
My car is in the garage getting fixed from a snot-faced punk rear-ending me so I had limited mobility for three weeks now.
The forecast for this week last week was high forties possible fifties.
Now it is mid-thirties with night temps as low a 7 degrees F.
I do not know how many here know of the Old Farmers Almanac but it has been more accurate than the weather system the past few months.
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Post by prairiegardens on Nov 7, 2017 19:24:48 GMT -5
Went from + 12 one week to -17celcius with snow/wind with no end in sight, so packed up my two figs and dozenish baby citrus and headed south with them riding shotgun in the front passenger seat, which obviously prevents picking up hitchhikers. Which I used to do from time to time...Unfortunately the cold followed me out to the coast, but it seems to have moderated now, -7 is much more manageable. I think one fig has had a couple of leaves frosted but otherwise they all seem to be coping with the mobile lifestyle so far. Last time I did this I left some dormant baby trees with neighbors and came back to all dead trees, so at least this way these have a fighting chance.
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Post by steev on Nov 10, 2017 0:34:32 GMT -5
Rained off-and-on last night; good, but no big thing.
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Post by richardw on Nov 10, 2017 2:42:56 GMT -5
Went from + 12 one week to -17celcius with snow/wind with no end in sight, so packed up my two figs and dozenish baby citrus and headed south with them riding shotgun in the front passenger seat, which obviously prevents picking up hitchhikers. Which I used to do from time to time...Unfortunately the cold followed me out to the coast, but it seems to have moderated now, -7 is much more manageable. I think one fig has had a couple of leaves frosted but otherwise they all seem to be coping with the mobile lifestyle so far. Last time I did this I left some dormant baby trees with neighbors and came back to all dead trees, so at least this way these have a fighting chance. I would have thought the fig would have lost its leafs by now |
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Post by richardw on Nov 10, 2017 2:47:14 GMT -5
One week of humid sub tropical weather then a week of cooler airmass from the south, now looking like a week coming up of anticyclonic weather, this means light winds, warm days & cool nights.
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Post by reed on Nov 10, 2017 7:01:06 GMT -5
27 F this morning, our coldest so far. Fall sprouted tomatoes and beans are finally finished, dill still looks to be holding on but a little colder and it will be gone too. I always worry that so much of my dill sprouts in the fall, afraid there won't be enough that waits till spring but so far there always has been.
All my radishes, turnips, mustard, brassicas, lettuce and choi look fine. I expect to lose a lot through winter of course but hope to have a good amount live to seed next year.
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Post by steev on Nov 10, 2017 8:25:57 GMT -5
Hope springs eternal; better than weeds, in the long run.
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Post by steev on Nov 10, 2017 20:55:10 GMT -5
Bay Area's gotten a nice dose of gentle rain this week, haven't heard of any heavy enough to wreak havoc on the burned areas; don't know whether there's yet been any on the farm.
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Post by reed on Nov 11, 2017 6:56:04 GMT -5
23 F this morning, haven't checked my garden yet. Time to step up transplanting black and raspberries and trees.
I have my eye on a thicket of F2 and I think even F3 generation of Bradford and or Cleveland pears growing along the hwy near town. Haven't checked what fruit they make, if any much at all, but I don't care. Also don't care that the "officials" consider them invasive, I'm gonna go dig some up. With the death of all my ash trees and general decline of all our trees any tree is better than no trees. They grow much more like a real tree than their ornamental parents and they do it fast. They also have beautiful fall color, something I miss from the old days around here.
Maybe if planted within bee distance of my pears they will make babies that produce something that fruits good as well. That would be sweet, a new race of eatable fruit, growing wild.
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