Rain...

[growalot]

I just got in from the garden....It was sunny and hot ,next thing I know I'm getting soaked...still sunny I look up raining pretty good ...blue skies???..Just enough to make weeding miserable. Keep me from picking the beans and soak me to the bone...then the steam started rolling off every thing....

 So one has to laugh.... bad no rain but now we are staying damp all the time and there is ZERO wind in the hills...We've checked around to others farther and close by...They are having the same highly unusual problem...problem higher altitudes.Sun,damp but no wind to dry anything up fully...here come the fungus's and bacterial problems...lol danged if it doesn't ,danged if it does rain....lol

[Fishon]

Finally getting some rain today. So far we have had 5 storms 10 to 15 minute bursts. Im hoping food plots and the farmers corn perks up . I was going to till and plant a small plot up this am but didnt think we were going to get any rain. Dang,missed that one. Keep doing the rain dance.

 

[LET EM GROW]

This is my "Murder Plot".. The freshly planted patch of Double Beam in the center, which has sprouted. The spotty green around the fresh dirt, is what used to be thick, lush WI fusion Clover back in end of May. The clover is still there, and real thick yet, but only 2 or 3 inches tall.. We got about 2" of rain in the last week and a half, So im hoping that rain will jump start these clovers some, Corn field to the far right is tasseled and only 3-4ft tall in most spots. Pic taken Friday 8/12

[landtracdeerhunter]

Woke to a much needed steady rainfall this morning. My second planting of radish- oats mix is just coming up. Seed laid in the dust for over two weeks until last weekend shower. Starting to look greener already.

[growalot]

I just got a heavy down pour about and hours worth...

[landtracdeerhunter]

Couple of 5 minute showers this morning that will sure help. Rain into a gully washer up along Lake Ontario this morning from 104 north. Cooling off!

Edited August 21, 2016 by landtracdeerhunter

[growalot]

Man it just poured here yesterday morning and......Stopped 1 hour before Rivers Birthday Party...What a great time we all had...and such a wonderful nights sleep ,with a cool breeze blowing through the house...some leafs are staring to turn.

[Pygmy]

Things have really greened up here with the rain the last couple of weeks..

The Mermaid is nagging me to mow the lawn again.....

[bugsNbows]

Better make 'em happy now so as to not interfere with hunting times! LOL

[turkeyfeathers]

Finally had to mow yesterday. May have been 7 weeks before that. It greened and grew fast in two days of rain prior.

[BizCT]

Finally had to mow yesterday. May have been 7 weeks before that. It greened and grew fast in two days of rain prior.

7 weeks? I have to mow every week or it's a jungle!


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[turkeyfeathers]

7 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

 

 

7 weeks? I have to mow every week or it's a jungle!


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Our town suffered more than any other around in the drought.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ive mowed 3 or 4 times all summer. Once was just knocking down some weeds that were popping up. Maybe Ill mow this week.

[turkeyfeathers]

Ive mowed 3 or 4 times all summer. Once was just knocking down some weeds that were popping up. Maybe Ill mow this week.

I mowed the bulk of mowing wearing my hunting gear from spring turkey hunting after I got home. Since then , squat.


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[landtracdeerhunter]

Mowed 5 acres yesterday. Usually get 20 small squares an acre. This year, be lucky to get 20 off the whole thing. Turkeys came into the field to feed on a good crop of grasshoppers. Their were 2 poults, not even the size of quail with 3 hens.

[growalot]

I counted 8 in a pic the other day about the same size with two hens...

[Doewhacker]

2 hours ago, WNYBuckHunter said:

Ive mowed 3 or 4 times all summer. Once was just knocking down some weeds that were popping up. Maybe Ill mow this week.

Its crazy how dry you guys are, we are up 2 inches for the summer (but still down for the year) and I try to mow every 4-5 days or its a hay field. Nate and I are sick of mowing!

[Nomad]

No idea how much or little rain my spot got, but the corn looks ok, and the secret enterance in needed to be cut so the Buick can haul the deer out .

[WNYBuckHunter]

1 hour ago, Doewhacker said:

Its crazy how dry you guys are, we are up 2 inches for the summer (but still down for the year) and I try to mow every 4-5 days or its a hay field. Nate and I are sick of mowing!

Its getting better, as weve been getting rain more frequently the last couple of weeks, but we are way down still.

 

I went back and looked at the previous 10 years for May 1 - August 23 and heres what it looks like for Rochester (airport)

06 15.52

07 5.63

08 10.81

09 15.16

10 16.70

11 12.85

12 10.65

13 16.60

14 15.05

15 17.83

16 7.74

[growalot]

I think we got most of that 7+ in the last month

[LET EM GROW]

I've been in the Outer Banks since Friday but I've heard we got some rain and decent growing weather. That would be perfect, since Thursday before we left I spread urea by hand, over 2 of my 3 brassicas plots. I love vacations but I do miss my dirt life, sand makes me angry lol

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[landtracdeerhunter]

Just hit the two inch mark here for August. AS dry as it gets, always seems to bounce back.

[slickrockpack]

0.44" for august so far but it poured last night, I haven't checked the rain gauge but I bet we got 0.04" anyway. cooler wet weather like this will help knock the fires down.

[WNYBuckHunter]

16 hours ago, growalot said:

I think we got most of that 7+ in the last month

In May and the last couple of weeks actually

.20 inch within the last 12 hours. I want to stop down and check some plots tonight but Im figuring they should be doing really good at this point.

[growalot]

I just got back from doing some work...got caught in a down pour...kinda nice a bit warm and so refreshing...any ways I over seeded the plots I planted a bit ago...the WW was thin on turnips and the mowed turnip plot in the bean/weed field needed a bit more and there were a few bare spots in the old clover turnip field...I actually do this on purpose so that I have both big mature bulbs and smaller easy to pull ones for the fawns....works out well.I can't believe how much everything is growing. the Frost master peas have pods and lots of flowers...tasted the peas, they are very sweet actually.... But nothing is touching them...they are eating the bean plants and the hemp...beans are 3 ft but will never flower they keep topping them...so I won't be buying those peas ever again. The paddock turnips are thick and the deer are testing... plants pulled not eaten......but there is clover mixed in with that.