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Post by mskrieger on Jul 20, 2018 12:48:00 GMT -5
Weather here has been gorgeous. Sunny and warm and breezy, occasional heavy rains. Gorgeous. I hope everyone else has been out enjoying the out-of-doors too and that's why it's so quiet around here lately.
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Post by RpR on Jul 20, 2018 13:27:50 GMT -5
73 F with 78 percent humidity.
It is supposed to be raining but is not.
This has been great weather for the gardens but not much else.
I will be heading down to my South garden soon to do some more muddy weeding.
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Post by philagardener on Jul 21, 2018 6:11:12 GMT -5
Weather here has been gorgeous. Sunny and warm and breezy, occasional heavy rains. Gorgeous. I hope everyone else has been out enjoying the out-of-doors too and that's why it's so quiet around here lately. It has been amazing for July. Not tomato weather - probably the slowest season I have had in years.
The next week looks like a literal wash-out with up to 6 inches of rain predicted for our area. And my fall carrots are just germinating!  |
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Post by reed on Jul 21, 2018 11:12:57 GMT -5
Mostly just hot, dry, depressing, here but we did finally get some rain yesterday, close to 2 inches and this time it came over a few hours rather than all at once. Cooler this morning but sun is heating it back up now, looks like more storms could come anytime.
Hopefully it is start of some more garden friendly conditions and tomatoes, beans, later corn, melons, squash, will perk up and produce a good harvest.
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 23, 2018 12:40:00 GMT -5
Weather here has been gorgeous. Sunny and warm and breezy, occasional heavy rains. Gorgeous. I hope everyone else has been out enjoying the out-of-doors too and that's why it's so quiet around here lately. It has been amazing for July. Not tomato weather - probably the slowest season I have had in years.
The next week looks like a literal wash-out with up to 6 inches of rain predicted for our area. And my fall carrots are just germinating! Yes. Same here. No ripe tomatoes yet, and the eggplants are just flowering. But the rest of the garden looks fabulous. No signs of stress on the cucurbits, the turnips stood sweet and crisp until last week, the spring beets are enormous, and we still have lots of flowers that normally shut down in the heat. I have no complaints. |
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Post by walt on Jul 23, 2018 13:07:54 GMT -5
I went to my garden 5 miles from home. I was suprized to see puddles on the road half way there. Good thing I went on to look at things. The garden didn't get measurable rain.
These spotty little rains are common in Kansas summers. Just not common enough.
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Post by steev on Jul 23, 2018 21:50:44 GMT -5
It's dry as dust; this five-month lack-of-rain-season sucks donkey; I know people love the Cali climate, but there is a downside to it, if one actually lives here. I'm just bitching; I'd not go elsewhere; we've been here in Cali nearly 170 years (about as long as my mother's folks were in Ukraine, before any of them came to Nor Am). I'll cope with conditions here, because it's what I know and I'm not leaving.
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Post by walt on Jul 24, 2018 13:25:04 GMT -5
Drove to Salina again today. 40 miles. I passed several farm ponds that were completely dry.
I've lived around here more than 20 years, so I've seen them dry before, though not often. But this is pretty early for them to be dry.
Some of the trees have turned brown. I've seen that before too, trees loosing their leaves due to drought. I've seen that once before in my life. It didn't hurt the native trees, nor Siberian elm, which is common here. Some leafed out with the fall rains. Others just waited until the next spring. Their choice, I guess.
Garden still looks good.
Just now we're getting a "cool" break, and I'm enjoying it. City folks are still bitching about the heat.
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 25, 2018 12:46:53 GMT -5
Interesting to hear about the early dryness in Kansas, walt . The trees turning brown is scary--that's always a bad sign here in New England. None of our summers are dry by your standards, but the past couple were pretty dry by ours (some farmers actually began to think about irrigating--never needed to before!) and a lot of trees in stressful spots died. The power company has just gotten around to taking down a lot of the street trees that died, and many property owners haven't done it at all. A lot of standing snags. (As I write this, it's pouring cats and dogs. Been doing that intermittently since Sunday, not supposed to stop until this coming Sunday.) |
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Post by reed on Jul 25, 2018 14:13:02 GMT -5
We used to not need irrigation either, now the big corn and bean fields in Indiana all have those huge circular irrigation systems. I suppose they are running off ground water. Ten years ago there were still fairly few of those systems, thirty years ago there were none.
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Post by richardw on Jul 25, 2018 14:57:38 GMT -5
Noticeably longer daylight hours now and only three weeks away from noticing the increasing daytime warmth.
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Post by walt on Jul 25, 2018 14:59:23 GMT -5
Kansas used to have lots of irrigation out west. But farmers cut back because the costs of pumping got high. Now fuel is less expensive, I think the pumps might be running again. But the famous Ogallala Aquifer is getting lower, and farm groups are getting together to limit irrigation. But is still being pumped out much faster than it is being replaced.
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Post by richardw on Jul 29, 2018 19:20:21 GMT -5
Last day of the middle month of winter and spring has arrived very early, a weeping willow not far away from here is now green, two weeks earlier than last year, thousands of sparrows are courting in the pine tree line by the garden,one Haskap has flower buds while another plant has leaves well open. Always snowed every year and most years more than once, today it hasn't snowed for three years, the weather is warming fast now   |
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Post by RpR on Jul 30, 2018 22:04:06 GMT -5
Drove to Salina again today. 40 miles. I passed several farm ponds that were completely dry. I've lived around here more than 20 years, so I've seen them dry before, though not often. But this is pretty early for them to be dry. Some of the trees have turned brown. I've seen that before too, trees loosing their leaves due to drought. I've seen that once before in my life. It didn't hurt the native trees, nor Siberian elm, which is common here. Some leafed out with the fall rains. Others just waited until the next spring. Their choice, I guess. Garden still looks good. Just now we're getting a "cool" break, and I'm enjoying it. City folks are still bitching about the heat. We had that in the land of 10,000 lakes in the late seventies, mid-eighties and again early nineties. Sloughs dried up and rivers were so low farmers were banned from using river and lake water for irrigation. Now we have have above average humidity all summer though temp. are now average which has been extremely rare this summer. Either above or below average most of the time. I am now noticing earlier sunsets even though the difference is only twenty minutes from longest day. For some reason, for the first time in my life I paid real attention to sun location summer vs winter. Where I am at now summer is is directly over head while it sets slightly North West and winter you look over to the South and Southwest where it it is not much above the tallest trees. |
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Post by steev on Jul 30, 2018 23:46:00 GMT -5
I never paid attention to the sun's movement until I got the farm; there being no buildings' obstruction has really made me aware of its annual motion, quite striking.
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