Weather Issues

[Foggy47]

Just realized we do not have a good place where we can go to complain about the lack of rain or weather conditons at our places. I need to vent sometimes. Grin.

 

[Foggy47]

Finally....after a few weeks of warm temps and NO rainfall....we are getting two days of plentiful rainfall. I think we got an inch or so at this point. And it was just in time....as my brassica leaves were beginning to shrivel up and I had some fertiizer that never got rained on. I think this is going to set up my plots for a great fall hunt. I got lots of decent clover , brassica, and winter rye to eat....and this rain will make the day. Blessed yet again.

 

[SD51555]

I dug up a few of my garden beds to plant garlic on Sunday. I was surprised they were as dry as they were.


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[356]

Local news stations are calling this Augtober. Weather in the mid to upper 80s, warm nights and the long drought continues. The first break may come Friday or Saturday.

 

[H20fwler]

Haven’t had a decent rain here since early August. Local weather gurus say we are 9” below average for this time of year.
Has put a lot of stress on trees they are turning early, our pond is down a couple feet and I haven’t mowed the yard in over a month.
Didn’t effect the crops much they had plenty of rain earlier on, bumper crops with well over half off already and dry enough not to get docked right out of the fields. Double crop beans are stunted and turning now.
Had been very hot and dry, now cool and dry. Temps won’t even reach 70 today.
Most of my apples and pears dropped early.

 

[SwampCat]

Been hot and dry here in sw Arkansas - the normal. I proved to myself once again I know what to do when planting brassicas - dont do it. I planted around labor day and every one of them is dead as a hammer and the plot is now ready for wheat. I just had to plant the brassicas to prove I was right that you cant plant them down here in a food plot. My turnips, mustard, and kale in my home garden are hanging on and I water them every four days.

 

[356]

Haven’t had a decent rain here since early August. Local weather gurus say we are 9” below average for this time of year.
Has put a lot of stress on trees they are turning early, our pond is down a couple feet and I haven’t mowed the yard in over a month.
Didn’t effect the crops much they had plenty of rain earlier on, bumper crops with well over half off already and dry enough not to get docked right out of the fields. Double crop beans are stunted and turning now.
Had been very hot and dry, now cool and dry. Temps won’t even reach 70 today.
Most of my apples and pears dropped early.

Our beans looked good, but only produced 40 - 45 bushels per acre compared to 55-60 in a good year. That is crazy low and due to the group. The wet spring allowed lots of early foliage, but the drought means pod production was way off. The with low prices, things are looking bad for soybean farmers.

Our pond is down 2' as well.

 

[Foggy47]

We had great rainfalls through mid - August or so....then things got pretty dry. Rains likely totaled an inch for me in the past few days....and my brassica was starting to dry up in the sunny areas. I once again proved the value of planting brassica in areas that get some shade....as those areas seem to hang in there during dry periods. My sandy land needs rain each week....or two at most. Lucked out with recent rainfall. Blessed.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I don’t know what to believe anymore. I almost skipped going to the stand this afternoon cause the radar showed us on the fringes of a red cell and called for 2 hours of heavy rain. Thankfully I went anyways and turned out to be dry as a bone! I have a feeling we are in for cold, rainy weather very soon. Now that everything has stopped growing…

 

[Foggy47]

Aint talking about the weather a good gig? Grin.