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Post by philagardener on Sept 18, 2018 19:50:22 GMT -5
Frosts starting to lighten off now on clear nights, another three weeks and it will take a Antarctic blast to produce frost after that Don't tempt Mother Nature! |
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Post by richardw on Sept 19, 2018 1:06:52 GMT -5
Its the other end of the growing season that has lengthened, we can still get a killing frost up into November. This is the time of year garden centers make good money, selling replacement tomatoes, peppers etc to people who plant out too early.
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Post by jocelyn on Sept 19, 2018 12:04:07 GMT -5
So funny isn't it? People do that here too, 24th of May holiday and then, frost.
Here we got some much needed rain last night, a good soaking. Some folks to our south have dry wells, and are buying water. We're Ok, well at 110 feet, pump at 90, with 20 feet of water in the bore.
No frost predicted in the long range forcast,still have squashes and tomatoes and pears to pick......raspberries too, but they can take a light frost.
Not sure if there will be any chestnuts, only had 6 burs after that June frost took all the first ones.
Still, 13 jars of peaches done up last night and early pears today. Walnuts look good, and the hazels are picked except for one late bush.
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Post by RpR on Sept 20, 2018 13:33:17 GMT -5
After a brief dry spell, and probably the last heat wave of summer, temps. are now around normal.
It is wet again but normally this time of year that is not odd; just as this was a wetter than average year trees look more green that normal.
One thing that short dry spell did show, which trees are not in best health. I had one Ash tree down South that was shedding leave already a month ago while one next too it has not.
I am hoping the sucker dies.
Forecast is for below average temp. with near freezing by next week.
Pretty much the norm for this year with temps. being either above or below the norm.
In the past dozen years it was not odd for daytime highs to be in the seventies to eighties this time of year so this is the first time since 1992 that such cold temps are the norm.
The days of me nursing my tomatoes into late October are over so I just let the diseases I used to treat for and fight take their toll; I had too many tomatoes anyway as I have thrown a lot into the compost heap.
Amazing how things change and you are not sure why.
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Post by steev on Oct 1, 2018 21:15:48 GMT -5
Today there was a brief rain flurry, of no importance, but it was overcast all day, such a relief.
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Post by walt on Oct 2, 2018 11:45:55 GMT -5
I wouldn't turn the heat on yet for myself yet. But I have finger lime seeds trying to sprout, and no heating mat. So I have an electric heater going in one room.
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Post by steev on Oct 2, 2018 19:30:04 GMT -5
Got some light rain this morning; nothing useful except to clear the air.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 19:54:16 GMT -5
A stunning spring day here, light winds, a sky so clear and blue that thanks to having a horizon i could easily see mountains further that the Kaikoura ranges with are about 100kms away. Where's that flat earth when need it
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Post by steev on Oct 8, 2018 21:01:14 GMT -5
1.2" rain on the farm last week; very unexpected and very welcome; kick-started the weeds sprouting.
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Post by philagardener on Oct 9, 2018 5:24:58 GMT -5
When I thought a kickstarter campaign might be good for your farm, that wasn't what I had in mind!
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 9, 2018 10:37:11 GMT -5
I think i literally saw a tiny clump of snow this morning. Need to check if the watermelons / citrons / wild tomatoes have died. Either way i think it's time to harvest whatever is left. I saw Galapagense flowering, but alas i don't think it set fruit in time this year.  pity. I was hoping for a slightly more adapted strain to start. |
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Post by richardw on Oct 9, 2018 14:13:28 GMT -5
Maybe only once every couple of years do we see the NW arch cloud as straight as it was at sunrise today, formed much the same way as by the Chinook winds they are quite common but rare to get them as relatively straight as seen in the photo. The best example i remember was when i was a kid, the arch cloud then was ruler straight 200-300 kms long  |
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Post by walt on Oct 9, 2018 14:18:56 GMT -5
It stated raining a few days ago. The first 2 days gave me maybe 1/2 inch (1 cm.). Not enough to get me wet working outside, though there were raindrops falling. Not enough to do any good or harm. But very early Sunday morning, it cut loose. Pouring down. But the sound put me to sleep, after i'd been unable to sleep for a few hours. Now it is Tuesday, and it is still pouring down. It is forecast to continue through Wednesday. A good soak. We needed that. But some flooding is blocking roads. I saw soil loss in fields I passed going to work. We don't need that.
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Post by walt on Oct 11, 2018 10:30:18 GMT -5
Sunny today. But my 7 inch rain gauge ran over. Tubs in my garden had over a foot of water. Coming home from work, some of the wheat fields looked like lakes on both sides of the road. This was a strange rain storm for Kansas. Almost no wind. Usually we have wind, rain or no rain.
Are there any members of this group in the 2 hurricanes we've had lately? Or in the typhoons in parts of the world further away? It has been hard on so many.
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Post by RpR on Oct 11, 2018 13:47:33 GMT -5
Right now it is 34 degrees or 28 degrees below average and 45 degrees below record high -- I've had worse.
Tonight it is supposed to hit 25 or a mere 15 degrees below average or 1 degree below record low -- I've had worse.
Next week it is supposed to get in the high fifties or a couple degrees above average day and night -- Yeah right.
They're coming to take me away hehe-hoho-haha to the funny farm where life is happy ALL the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white suits....
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pity. I was hoping for a slightly more adapted strain to start.