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Just another rainy day in Georgia
Comments (7)Some real beauties in this group, including your seedling. I really enjoyed seeing your pic of Southern Dazzle. I bought it and shortly after I planted it, the fan split and put up a small scape, but the plant couldn't support it so I am waiting to see bloom on this one. I think the puppy was happy to be in out of the rain. Such adoring eyes! Ann...See MoreAnother rainy day pics..
Comments (12)Melati, Thanks for the pics. Your Hostas are certainly well grown. Lime Smoothie is spectacular. BTW, that doesn't look like Band of Gold to me, unless perhaps it's a streaked version of it. Are you joining the Maine HS this weekend on the trip to Mass? If so I may see you on Sunday. Steve...See MoreAnother Rainy Day!
Comments (5)Wet bum, here in southwestern Ontario, nestled among four of the Great Lakes. Have left the female canine at home some days recently, but let her come today - she found well over a dozen things to yap at, en route through the city ... and, on warm days, one needs to leave the windows open some to allow air circulation. Not sure whether to risk the canine police today, so left the windows some open ... resulting in the damp derriere. Oh, well - I've been accused of being all wet, before. Cool here, as well, probably in the low 50s. Couple of days of rain has meant not much activity in the garden ... and at least 3/4 of the tomatoes are rotting on the vines. ole joyful...See MoreAnother Rainy Week Ahead
Comments (46)Amy, Unfortunately it is about to start feeling like July. The good thing about the rain is it has kept us cooler. There's no rain in my 7-day forecast, so I expect we'll dry out a lot over the next week, and we're expected to hit the upper 90s early next week. Can 100 degrees be far behind? Bon, Yay for the rain. You did need it and I'm glad you got it. You may feel stormed out, but it will be a fleeting feeling. We are about to feel the wrath of July heat + high humidity from all the moisture in the ground, so I think it is going to feel worse for a while before it feels better. Carol, Well, Grove was overdue for some heavy rainfall and apparently it finally happened. With all the accidents on the lake over the July 4th weekend, I hope people will be exceptionally carefully out there on the water now that there's all the runoff from all that rainfall. I have about half of my garden weeded and more or less under control---the upper half that dries out more quickly. I got a lot of that weeding done in the two hours I was out there this morning. I quickly harvested the one row of tomato plants that I hadn't harvested from prior to the storm, and then I weeded, weeded, weeded as the sun climbed higher in the sky and the temperatures began heating up. The fence lines are a mess, though, and I have to go slowly and carefully with them because that's one of the favorite hiding places of the timber rattlers. I do the same thing with rain gauges. I've noticed that even the radar-indicated rainfall this year has rarely matched what I've recorded in my rain gauge, and neither does our mesonet station's. It's why I try to keep an unbroken rain gauge (and occasionally a slightly-cracked one that manages to record most of the rainfall) out in the yard at all times. I left the one that cracked in the winter and put a new one beside it. There is only about a 0.10" difference between the two, so the broken one is almost recording correctly. Dorothy, For so long this year, I was worried y'all weren't getting enough rain, but I can see now that you're getting plenty. Last year was perfect for us in terms of rainfal, beginning in mid-June, and once the rain started, it's hardly stopped at all. Prior to mid-June, the drought was so bad I was about to close the garden gate and walk away, so the rain began falling in the nick of time. It can stop now if it wants. After the drought years of 2011-2013, I am just thrilled to have plenty of rainfall and (so far) not too many grasshoppers. It has been a struggle all year to keep up with the bare minimum of mowing, trimming and hand-weeding, but we just keep plugging along, doing what we can when we can and not worrying or fretting about what we can't get done. You can only do whatever the conditions, weather and time available allow, so I try not to worry about the rest. Eventually we'll get it all done. Sandplum, I weeded all I could this morning and was happy with what I got done, but some of those weeds were so big already that I had to dig them out rather than pulling them out. I'll get out there in the cool early morning hours tomorrow and try to work on it for another 2-4 hours. In June and July the harvesting and canning keeps me too busy to focus too much on weeding, and the rain this year has made weeding even harder to accomplish, but the tomato canning is winding down now, so I should get to weed every day for the next week, especially with no rain in the forecast. I think that with a week of weeding every morning, I should catch up on the backlog of weeds waiting to be removed. Y'all, I don't remember exactly what our all-time record rainfall is, but I believe it is around 59". I need to look it up and see. I am fairly certain we'll break that record this year, as Burneyville is sitting at 54" right now. Never, ever, even after 2007, did I think we'd see that sort of rainfall here. Dawn...See Moreroselee z8b S.W. Texas
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