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Post by xdrix on May 1, 2020 14:14:07 GMT -5
The weather is rainy and cloudy.Today 11°C 51,8°F this morning and 15°C 59°F this afternoon.
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Post by xdrix on May 5, 2020 10:19:10 GMT -5
We are have the ice saints. The last cold of may with two night between 4 and 5°C and the days between 17 and 18°C
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Post by steev on May 5, 2020 12:40:03 GMT -5
Hot and dry
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Post by reed on May 5, 2020 15:21:55 GMT -5
We had a few days mid to high 80s with dry breezes. High 40s today with drizzle, downpours with a little hail yesterday but no real storm. Second time in recent weeks of similar conditions. Last one ended with a light freeze, this one I think will bottom out tonight still in the 40s, maybe 30s but don't really expect another freeze this season.
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Post by reed on May 6, 2020 17:52:14 GMT -5
Sorry about your tomatoes. When native things are effected in my opinion is a result of climate change, been seeing it here a lot for last ten - fifteen years. Sure an anomalous season probably always happened now and then, things recovered but when it happens repeatedly they have a tougher time.
An example here is when native trees leaf out and then get frozen back. They recover and leaf out again but with multiple shoots at each branch tip where there should have been just one or two. Then it happens again the next year or the next and trees like maple or oak end up horribly deformed, never recovering to a normal growth habit.
This year my grapes were in bud and most got frosted a couple weeks ago. My peach and pear trees are currently loaded with baby fruits apparently they timed their blooms just right. My early potatoes had just sprouted and got frosted, they have recovered and look great but a freeze is predicted for Friday, I'll cover them with some old sheets. Intermittent periods of highs in the high 80's with periods of lows in the 20's is some pretty tough luck.
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Post by steev on May 7, 2020 0:47:39 GMT -5
No question that plants aren't adjusting to this change fast enough, poor babies; it's our own damned fault; we've got to stay light on our feet, if we hope to stay ahead of this shit.
In my experience these days, when temps get too hot, plants shut down (estivation): the tomato that is green June 30 is still green, and no larger, July 30; this has consequences for food production.
Now one may be in favor of keeping out those southerners, swarthy folk; one may even be in favor of building a wall (how'd that work out for China?), but hungry people will be insistent. and why not?
It doesn't matter which side of the boat there is a leak; we're all in the same damn boat!
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Post by xdrix on May 7, 2020 1:10:36 GMT -5
Exactly above 30°C the tomato blocked the production of lycophen ( carotenoid red composant) and product a less quantity of ethylen.
The 11 th may the meteo annonciated 8°C 46,4F in maxi with rain and 3°C 37,4F in mini (ice saints). Sunday 10 may we will have tunderstorm and 25°C 77°F in maxi.
Its a big difference of t°
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Post by flowerbug on May 7, 2020 8:26:52 GMT -5
we're about to go through a cold snap, it really is still too early here to be putting out the warm weather crops. last year i planted the first peas later and did not have too many worries about what they could tolerate. this year i took a chance with the first pea planting and now i get to see what fresh sprouts will tolerate. of the next 5 evenings 4 are predicted to be below freezing, but they keep changing the really low temperatures.
i have to figure out if/when/where the next round gets planted. things change quickly here with plans so my previous plans have already been tossed aside.
in the middle of fence works now. replacing previous beat up fence with newer one with taller posts to hope to keep the deer from running over it. including some strips of fabric in the fence to give more visual cues so perhaps deer can avoid running into it.
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Post by xdrix on May 7, 2020 9:14:35 GMT -5
We have not problem with the deer but we have problem with the slug.
For me i thibk that the peas could be largely resist at -5°C. 23°F
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Post by prairiegardens on May 7, 2020 15:01:37 GMT -5
Planted peas, Swiss chard, some garlic (yes I know it should've gone in last fall but it didn't), onions and just for a change some lavender in the greenhouse, it was -5 last night and supposed to cool down over the next week. So shall see....it's sunny already by 6 am so it feels unfair it should still be so damn cold! Everything so far in raised boxes so easy to leave in greenhouse, moving things in and out a pain though. Got given some baby lilacs in full leaf from BC, will likely move them in overnight as even though lilacs thrive here these ones won't be used to the cold here, yet.
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Post by reed on May 8, 2020 3:53:52 GMT -5
Are the lilacs seed grown? I have a collection of very old ones rescued from abandoned home sites on the state owned hunting preserve near me and have thought of trying to grow them from seed but haven't gotten too it yet. Flowers aren't as tremendous as on the new ones but the fragrance more than makes up for it.
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Post by flowerbug on May 9, 2020 10:18:12 GMT -5
i have no experience with seed growing for lilacs and as they are the most deadly plant to me due to allergic reactions i can't even experiment with them. even the sap from the plant will raise welts on me like poison ivy.  too bad since we love the smell of them too. we have one plant here which grows in the NE corner and i can always tell when the wind shifts... for slug problems you can put some flat boards around the affected beds/plants and then go out each morning and flip the boards over and squish the slugs. the birds will come along and eat whatever you've squished. also search around for other slug hiding spots and remove them or flip them and squish those too. besides deer we have a full population of wild animals and luckily only a few of them are pests. deer, rabbits and groundhogs do the most damage, chipmunks are more tolerable but if the population of them gets to be too much they can really do a lot of damage to my strawberry crop. one year i trapped over 50 of them in a few weeks. this year i've only seen a few around. if i see more than two i get out the airgun to chase them off or to kill them as they can rapidly make more and there are not enough predators around to keep them under control. i also encourage snakes and the semi-feral kitties come around to hunt at times, but now that i have more fencing up i don't expect the kitties to be around as much.
we don't grow sweet corn here because of the large raccoon population. i would need a very good electric fence to even attempt to grow sweet corn.
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Post by xdrix on May 9, 2020 17:24:08 GMT -5
Risq of thunderstorm this night 12°C 53,6°F this night and 26°C 78,8°F tomorow afternoon.
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Post by xdrix on May 11, 2020 5:00:05 GMT -5
Today rainy and wind 14°C 57,2°F this morning and 6°C 42,8°F this afternoon. The afternoon is more cold than the morning.
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Post by prairiegardens on May 12, 2020 15:12:19 GMT -5
I suspect they are from a lilac that was trying to extend its territory beyond what was wanted, they were I think taken from volunteers. They both are suffering from the cold even though they're back the greenhouse for the past few days, got down to -7C last night, coming from the banana belt of Canada as they did, no wonder it is being difficult for them.Rarely gets that cold in the dead of winter there and here they thought it was spring....
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too bad since we love the smell of them too. we have one plant here which grows in the NE corner and i can always tell when the wind shifts...