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Post by Dutch on Jul 29, 2016 16:03:41 GMT -5
My beans are really taking it on the chin. Usually this plot had lots of green this time of year. Not this year.  Here is how they look inside the exclusion cage.  |
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Post by Dutch on Jul 29, 2016 16:06:08 GMT -5
These were planted the first weekend in June. Should be over a foot tall by now.
We picked blackberries today. Should have been a bumper crop. The berries are sitting there waiting for rain.
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Post by bawanajim on Jul 29, 2016 16:09:37 GMT -5
Its coming down here right now.
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Post by cspot on Jul 29, 2016 17:34:31 GMT -5
Yes. They look awful. It is a shame when mother nature doesn't cooperate. All of the work goes right down the drain. Are you going to see some brassicas in there?
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Post by Dutch on Jul 29, 2016 20:41:55 GMT -5
The beans are there. I'm going to wait to see what August brings. Why seed brassica into a drought?
If beans fail, I will seed rye and oats into the plot come September. I have nothing to lose giving them a chance at this point.
I must say, I do like the way the plot cleaned up from the Round Up spraying over the 4th. A great way to get a plot ready for clover.
I could also seed some clover into that rye and oats as well.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Jul 30, 2016 8:54:10 GMT -5
Raining in 3A now Dutch !!! Yippie
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Post by davet on Jul 30, 2016 9:23:36 GMT -5
Raining in 3A now Dutch !!! Yippie There is no "Area 3A"...........  |
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Jul 30, 2016 10:52:11 GMT -5
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Post by Dutch on Jul 30, 2016 10:52:11 GMT -5
I went and bought a brassica mix this morning, took it to the lease and spread the seed on two areas I had sprayed the 4th weekend. It was drizzling as I was seeding. These are two plots I have neglected and want to just get them cleaned up.   There was no tillage whatsoever. Hoping to show Long beard it can be done. |
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Jul 30, 2016 11:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by Dutch on Jul 30, 2016 11:19:35 GMT -5
Raining nicely in Ansonia right now
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Post by timberdoodle on Jul 30, 2016 12:06:21 GMT -5
Calling for 1-2 inches today & tomorrow
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Post by buzz on Jul 30, 2016 13:25:40 GMT -5
A steady rain with occasional down pours over here for the past few hours. Radar looks like it should last the rest of the day.
Hopefully we get the same thing tomorrow.
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Post by Loggy on Jul 30, 2016 13:39:50 GMT -5
Getting a decent rain here in York County today.
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Post by cspot on Jul 30, 2016 15:23:06 GMT -5
We got a good bit of rain this morning. Was hoping to maybe hit my fall plot with the disc, but that will have to wait a couple of days.
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Jul 30, 2016 16:14:23 GMT -5
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Post by bushmaster on Jul 30, 2016 16:14:23 GMT -5
I diced half my plots last night. I was going to seed today but the rain turned them to mud. Just m6 luck!
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Post by Dutch on Jul 30, 2016 19:16:43 GMT -5
I diced half my plots last night. I was going to seed today but the rain turned them to mud. Just m6 luck! You should have been seeeding last nite! A REAL farmer would have been out ahead of the rain! LOL |
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Jul 30, 2016 20:41:03 GMT -5
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Post by bushmaster on Jul 30, 2016 20:41:03 GMT -5
I diced half my plots last night. I was going to seed today but the rain turned them to mud. Just m6 luck! You should have been seeeding last nite! A REAL farmer would have been out ahead of the rain! LOL I ran out of light! Glad I didn't seed today. Last storm dumped 2" in 20 minutes and flooded my fields bad. |
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Jul 30, 2016 20:58:25 GMT -5
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Post by cspot on Jul 30, 2016 20:58:25 GMT -5
Yep. We got dumped on this evening.
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Post by GlennD on Jul 30, 2016 21:15:05 GMT -5
Major flooding here in SW pa. Washington has been drenched.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 30, 2016 21:36:27 GMT -5
Feast or famine, it seems.
My brother up here said the ground arounf his house, even after almost an inch today, is dry after the first inch.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 31, 2016 8:47:49 GMT -5
Well, the stream volume of Pine Creek TRIPLED since yesterday. It's now a raging torrent. LOL Looking at it now, it's at least moving. Yesterday it was more like a pond. The beans, I'm sure, have grown a foot overnight, and my brassicas are probably 3 inches tall since seeding them yesterday.  |
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Jul 31, 2016 12:35:30 GMT -5
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Post by bushmaster on Jul 31, 2016 12:35:30 GMT -5
YEP it was a frog strangler yesterday. Clubhouse got flooded, access road washed out, and one of my corn fields was flattened! Trees down everywhere this morning. Should be dry by Tuesday. Will resume farming after work this week.
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Post by Dutch on Jul 31, 2016 16:43:46 GMT -5
We only had an inch. Need more.
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Post by davet on Jul 31, 2016 16:51:11 GMT -5
I saw a deer. It was pretty.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 3, 2016 11:18:22 GMT -5
Well, I really think my beans will be toast. Ground is drying out fast. May need to consider oats and rye come Labor Day.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:35:00 GMT -5
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Post by longbeard2372 on Aug 3, 2016 15:35:00 GMT -5
Well, I really think my beans will be toast. Ground is drying out fast. May need to consider oats and rye come Labor Day. I talked to my brother last evening and he said the ground was very damp in the Genesee / Shinglehouse area. He said a couple good rains monday and Tuesday and heavy dews the past 3 morning and it looks great dor planting. He said the roads never dried from sunday Pm till noon tuesday. He tried getting his wife's car up to our lease with the seed and 300 lbs of fertilizer in the back seat and had trouple getting up the tractor lane cause it was so muddy Monday evening. Must be a lot different down towards Rt 6... And it always is. Esp with snow! |
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