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Need rain
Aug 7, 2016 16:17:24 GMT -5
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Post by bushmaster on Aug 7, 2016 16:17:24 GMT -5
Finally got my plots in today. Turnip, radish, swiss chard, and clover. Let it Rain!!!!
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Post by Dutch on Aug 7, 2016 16:31:38 GMT -5
Lets hope!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 16:48:16 GMT -5
Strange, but while at the cabin yesterday, we sat out on the porch and enjoyed an absolute downpour. The weather comedian on the Johnstown TV station said Somerset got .79 inches of rain. I think we got more than that because it poured for nearly an hour. Bedford got only .01 inches of rain. Ms. Doris said she had two raindrops.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 10, 2016 4:22:01 GMT -5
Hey Longbeard, looks like some good rain up there right now on the radar!
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Post by timberdoodle on Aug 10, 2016 7:24:48 GMT -5
sposed to rain for the next week...raining now.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 10, 2016 8:05:47 GMT -5
There is a flood advisory for Potter until 9:15 AM.
Apparently they got a lot of rain over night and then this morning.
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Post by cspot on Aug 10, 2016 15:41:31 GMT -5
We got a hard shower this afternoon in Washington County.
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Post by redarrow on Aug 10, 2016 16:19:10 GMT -5
Different parts Warren county got three to four inches overnight(according the the radios weather report)and was under a flash flood warning this morning. It was still pouring when I left camp around 7:30. By the looks of the streams and the river it is desperately needed.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 11, 2016 17:15:56 GMT -5
More rain for Potter/Tioga!!!!
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Post by timberdoodle on Aug 11, 2016 17:27:31 GMT -5
getting hammered here right now.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 11, 2016 17:33:43 GMT -5
Guess my beans might grow?
Heading back up Friday to decide if I need to plant some brassica or not.
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Post by bawanajim on Aug 11, 2016 17:47:00 GMT -5
There are walls of water coming down right now.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 14, 2016 6:03:58 GMT -5
Well, beans inside the cage are a foot tall now, outside, 4 inches, but pushing new growth. they came in sorta thin, so, yesterday I ran a disc over the plot, with blades set straight, put some fertilizer on, and seeded some brassice isnto it. I only did half the plot.
The beans were not badly effected and they will grow, lets hope.
Red root is now taking over and I will spray them again with Roundup today. Not sure you can spray beans twice in a year with Roundup, but will find out.
If the other half of the plot is in poor shape come Labor Day, I will disc and seed it with rye and Buck Forage oats.
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Aug 14, 2016 7:04:55 GMT -5
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Post by cspot on Aug 14, 2016 7:04:55 GMT -5
Dutch, after using the electric fence this year I am convinced it is the way to go to get plots started. The beans I planted are non rr beans. The field I planted was just a hayfield and I didn't spray with anything prior to or after tilling. As you saw from the pics there is very little weeds. What I haven't taken a pic of is the far corner where a groundhog was eating on them from day one since I didn't have a low wire. The beans are spotty and full of weeds. I think giving the stuff a chance to establish prior to grazing pressure makes a big difference. Probably even bigger during a drought year like you are having.
If you remember my fall planting seeds last year didn't do well do to dry weather. My dad planted at the same time but had fence around his stuff and it did great even with dry weather.
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Aug 14, 2016 8:33:08 GMT -5
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Post by cspot on Aug 14, 2016 8:33:08 GMT -5
Here is the piece where the groundhog was working on them when they first came up. Big difference where there was grazing pressure.
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Post by timberdoodle on Aug 14, 2016 10:45:08 GMT -5
Nice rain right now!!
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Post by dennyf on Aug 14, 2016 11:19:01 GMT -5
Just a few woodchucks can do an enormous amount of damage to emerging crops. Years ago I walked thru a knee-high corn field down the road from camp, to check out a creek bank that always had lots of 'chucks when that field was in hay. Once the hay was cut/baled, it was a target rich area for shooting 'chucks that came out into the field from the bank areas. With corn growing, couldn't see them to shoot them.
Got down near the brushy bank and the corn plants were eaten to the ground in a semi-circle, about ten yards out into the corn field and thirty yards in length. Big enough area destroyed, that it probably cost the farmer dozens of bushels of corn that year?
One time my bud and I were coming back from a trip to camp, spotted a sweet corn patch along the dirt road shortcut we were on, that had two wires around it and a fence charger. The bottom wire was about six inches from the ground and the top one, about 18" high. My bud slowed down, said WTH kinda fence is that?
I figured it was a 'coon fence to keep the little beggars outta the sweet corn, but it did look kinda funny.
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Aug 14, 2016 13:36:19 GMT -5
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Post by cspot on Aug 14, 2016 13:36:19 GMT -5
We are getting a good soaking rain now. From the looks of the radar most of the state should get rain today.
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Post by GlennD on Aug 14, 2016 14:18:21 GMT -5
We are getting a good soaking rain , now. From the looks of the radar most of the state should get rain today. Yep, chased me off the golf course at Highland Springs. NWS emergency warning on my phone of tornado in the area. Extreme alert. Take cover now! Heavy rainfall.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 14, 2016 15:57:41 GMT -5
Cspot, I Had no trouble establishing beans last year. Good moisture.
This year, with the drought its a different story.
Last year by now, they were close to 2 ft tall.
My clover up top is just now coming back.
This is just the worst year I have had in 15 years.
I sprayed today, one hour later it rained. It appears to be raining again. Maybe some of the stuff will die, I don't know.
The brassica I seeded two weeks ago in my dirty plots is coming up.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 22, 2016 14:49:20 GMT -5
Well, my brother checked my beans Sunday. I spread some urea on them a week ago, and two weeks before that, spread some urea. A week ago, they were 4-6 inches tall. Now, a foot! The unbrowsed beans in the cage went from a foot to over the knees! Amazing what some good rains will do. He said the brassica I sowed into the beans was sprouting and doing well. Of course, he took no pics.....
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Post by cspot on Aug 22, 2016 16:05:08 GMT -5
Well, my brother checked my beans Sunday. I spread some urea on them a week ago, and two weeks before that, spread some urea. A week ago, they were 4-6 inches tall. Now, a foot! The unbrowsed beans in the cage went from a foot to over the knees! Amazing what some good rains will do. He said the brassica I sowed into the beans was sprouting and doing well. Of course, he took no pics..... Yep. For August it has been really wet. Usually you are hoping for just a little shower to keep the stuff alive, but we have had several real good soaking rains.
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Post by dennyf on Aug 22, 2016 16:35:10 GMT -5
Rain is kinda iffy, even when we get lots of it in a general area? Recall many times that it rained a mile from camp, but we got none - and vice versa. One year during haying season, we got a bad storm over on the NY side of the border while baling hay at my cousin's. Aunt and uncle went back home (across the valley from camp), never got a drop over there, less than a mile away.
We got hit with three heavy rain storms yesterday out at our club, during the last PSAA shoot of the year.
Got soaked during the last one, heading out thru the woods on a tractor to fetch in a porta John. Easily had well over two inches of rain out there. Got home, one inch in the rain gauge. Today a member stopped out that lives about halfway between the club and my place (about five miles apart0, said all they got all day were a few sprinkles.
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Post by Dutch on Aug 28, 2016 17:07:05 GMT -5
Well, caged beans are about 20 inches.
Unprotected, 6-8.
Upper part of the plot is pretty thin, so, next weekend I will disc in some oats and rye.
The brassica in the lower part is coming in decent, among the beans.
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Post by Dutch on Sept 3, 2016 16:00:54 GMT -5
Well, checked them today. Brassica sown into the beans will save the day. Beans are being heavily browsed. Tomorrow will disc in some rye and oats in the upper plot.
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