There's Always The Weather

[Paolo]

Keep the politics out of the weather thread.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

put away hundreds of the best hay in years yesterday...do it again today ..slight chance of a thunderstorm today...i hope they stay away...i need 3 more days to finish

se oregon is on fire and burning...almost 1 million acres...nobody lives there so most people and houses are safe

my tomatoes are in full bloom now..i am letting them dry to force them to set tomatoes

[A-1 (imported)]

You don't think the Christian Republicans are praying for this to embarrass Obama?

How about Republicans in general sabotaging the weather for the same reason.

If Obama was as good as most here say he is, why isn't it raining in drought areas?

Moi

You got it BACKWARDS... it is DIVINE RETRIBUTION and a sample of what HELL may await those who judge and who take the Lord's name in vain by tempting him to do THEIR will.

Yes, that's all that I will say about that except to comment it truly is AS DRY AS HELL out there...

May we now comply with the followin

g edict?

Keep the politics out of the weather thread.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

finished hauling hay in today

just in time..a few surprise sprinkles showed up today

todays high 69

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

cloudy...67...maybe rain tommorrow

picked my first tomato today...it was 4 inches across and 2 inches deep

oregon spring variety

also started picking my second crop of strawberries...tillamook variety and hoods

yellow transparent apples are a week away...we are cursed with too many apples this year...ordered a new apple picker from ebay..accidentally drove over my old one

[Paolo]

I have had, so far: 1 small and 1 medium cabbage, 1 small Mexibell pepper, 3 banana peppers, not quite ripe but too large for the vine. 1 hot cherry pepper. A few bits of lettuce and a couple green onions. 1 cucumber. My tomatoes refuse to ripen, so I'm thinking fried green ones very soon. Oh, and I did have a good cilantro crop, but you can't kill that stuff unless you pour gas on it. My melon crop, in large pots, is pretty but won't fruit, and the wild canaries have totaled out my sunflowers.

The only other thing doing any good is the wild purslane plant, which is taking over the world. It tastes a bit like lemony spinach, and loaded in Omega 3. Identified by paddle shaped leaves on round, thick red stems. Some call it a weed, I call it free food good in a salad.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

hay done ...hot days gone for now...back to cloudy and 70s

my brother runs a farmers market so i let him raise everything that gets ripe all at once

sweet corn...green beans...cucumbers..onoins...then i dont have a huge amount of stuff getting over ripe on me

i just swap peaches for what i want

[Paolo]

It is hardly sprinkling rain here with a popup T-storm. Last Sat., we got just shy of 1/8" of rain. It did fill the 55 gallon rain barrel. That was used up today. It's 104F on the shaded porch.

So far, I've lost an ornamental hawthorn and one young white pine (12") along with a 'wild spirea' shrub. The lilac hedge and the lone survivor out front have dropped most of their leaves. My Alberta fir I've had since 1985 is beginning to burn on the ends of the needles, and has experience mutation on one side, causing the "natural" pine growth misshape the tree. All of the persimmons and apples are gone; the green fruits dropped. I would have had a decent crop of paw-paws, but they're going too. Despite watering, the few cucumbers are so bitter that peeling them won't help. They're only good for dog toys.

On another note, I had no idea that the sweet pepper plants I grew from saved seed from a package from Aldi's were doing so well in partial shade. I had to cut 1 or 2 peppers off each plant to keep the plant from breaking over. And I picked one small volunteer Roma tomato last night.

Wow. Good thing I'm not counting on this vast waste of time garden for survival...yet.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I only have tomato's. two plants in one of those upside down planters, they get a 1/2 gal of water every day and are doing nice, leaves still very green and I have about 30 tomato's on the vines.

Today we had a lightning storm, I was out with Gem, talula's room mate, we were at Menard's loading the car when CRACK/flash of light/BOOM all at the same time, the hair on my neck stood out as well as the hair on my arms, my teeth itches and I had flash burns in my eyes. We hurried and got into the car when the next one hit about 300 ft from us, CRACK/Flash/BOOM its always a bit scary when you say ' ' and you get the boom, its always nicer to have a second or three from the time you see the flash, hear the crackle and hear the boom. It dropped I am going to guess 1/2 inch in about 30 minutes, the sky opened up and poured.

Now that my stomach is back where it belongs I thought I would report, thunderstorms in the mid west are much worse then on the coast.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

The air is turning humid again and the sunset was a spectacular display of illuminated oranges though the cloud strata. Jupiterian. I y'know what I mean. The air is very, very still. Future Doppler sez I might get some rain at 9:45PM but, I am not going to bet. Temp, unoffensive.

Lots of the garden seems to be in holding pattern. The current crop of lemons is not being replaced with another yet. The Boysenberry and Blackberry have also stopped flowering. Is that usual for berries?

It really has been a good summer so far. Not as overcast and cool as last year when the garden just could not get going. Unlike last year, I got a few metric dozen Mission Figs ripening, Fuji apples continue to ripen and a few blossoms appear. The Apple tree is hardly ever in tune with the seasons in this neighborhood. 3 others on my street, likewise.

My white onions are pushing themselves above ground forcing early harvest. They are 3X strong and no sweetness. Recommendations?

Happy Weather to All

Moi