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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 9:05:30 GMT -5
Well,I got 3.5 inches out of the tropical storm Bill. Total of 5.3 the last week. Probably be much rain out of it as it moves up the country.Around Dallas now. snuffy Possibility of getting blossom end rot ? Cracked maters ?
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Post by mrzulu on Jun 17, 2015 9:52:11 GMT -5
Sigh... Here on the California North Coast about 25 miles north of Eureka, it is 50°F with patchy fog and clear sky UV index is 9. Clear skies with expected high of 60° with a strong marine influence and fog returning in the late afternoon... On the other side of the Coastal Mountains, people living in Redding are facing the third week in a row with temps exceeding 100°. This is brutal. The last significant rain in the Central Valley was months ago. A simple salad will be very pricy in 2016.
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Post by snuffy on Jun 17, 2015 10:39:56 GMT -5
Well,I got 3.5 inches out of the tropical storm Bill. Total of 5.3 the last week. Probably be much rain out of it as it moves up the country.Around Dallas now. snuffy Possibility of getting blossom end rot ? Cracked maters ? Noticed some cracking this morning.Never a problem with blossom end rot.Bulk of crop made now anyway,tired of canning and picking and giving them away anyhow.Good crop this year. snuffy
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 11:35:58 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ?
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Post by snuffy on Jun 17, 2015 11:52:27 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ? I made my soil with 41 years of hauling leaves and letting them rot,200 to 400 bags from curbside in town every year. Must be well balanced with minerals I suppose that prevents it.I am fanatical about my garden. snuffy
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Post by parfive on Jun 17, 2015 13:16:11 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 14:08:24 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ? I made my soil with 41 years of hauling leaves and letting them rot,200 to 400 bags from curbside in town every year. Must be well balanced with minerals I suppose that prevents it.I am fanatical about my garden. snuffy When I started my plant biz 25 years ago my neighbor had a pond. It was 12 feet deep in 60 years of pig crap. It was so well composted, full of seed hulls and bug skeletons. He wanted it dug out. I hired a track hoe and 17 ton dump truck. We removed 30 loads. It was the most wicked soil, and I ran out after 15 years. Had to totally redesign my fertilizing/soil arrangement. I credit that soil to the success of my business. A gamble that paid well. Plants only as good as the soil. He always had 40-60 pigs and fed them nothing but field grown corn and sorghum. And a big concrete boat ramp like catchment for the manure to be washed into the pond. I think I got off easier than you snuffy. Building soil is a serious job.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 14:08:42 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ? I made my soil with 41 years of hauling leaves and letting them rot,200 to 400 bags from curbside in town every year. Must be well balanced with minerals I suppose that prevents it.I am fanatical about my garden. snuffy When I started my plant biz 25 years ago my neighbor had a pond. It was 12 feet deep in 60 years of pig crap. It was so well composted, full of seed hulls and bug skeletons. He wanted it dug out. I hired a track hoe and 17 ton dump truck. We removed 30 loads. It was the most wicked soil, and I ran out after 15 years. Had to totally redesign my fertilizing/soil arrangement. I credit that soil to the success of my business. A gamble that paid well. Plants only as good as the soil. He always had 40-60 pigs and fed them nothing but field grown corn and sorghum. And a big concrete boat ramp like catchment for the manure to be washed into the pond. I think I got off easier than you snuffy. Building soil is a serious job.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 16:37:16 GMT -5
Damn Rich, your Propublica articles are long. The 'privilege' of operating Navajo will soon be a thing of the past if the high pressure ridge over the west continues. This ridge destroys the snow pack, cooks the land. It is a natural weather phenomena and is totally dominating water supplies in the west. It is the problem. And no man made force can come close to preventing it. And man did nothing to create it IMO.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jun 20, 2015 9:32:34 GMT -5
WooooooHooooooo. Got an inch of rain over the last two days.
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Post by chassroc on Jun 23, 2015 14:41:23 GMT -5
An Interesting read... Who knew that John Wesley Powell was Nostradamus incarnate? Powell, reporting afterward, told Congress about a bifurcated landscape: a river gushing and abundant, but relatively inaccessible, surrounded for hundreds of miles on all sides by a desert so devoid of rainfall and moisture that it almost certainly could not alone sustain efforts to grow food from its soil. “Many droughts will occur; many seasons in a long series will be fruitless,” he cautioned in a dour report. If one were to try to irrigate the desert, Powell warned, the infrastructure and facilities needed to do it would be so enormous and costly that only a large collective effort — like from the government — could pay for it. Those Navajo's are killing Kentucky Charlie
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Post by jamesp on Jun 23, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5
Who knew that John Wesley Powell was Nostradamus incarnate?
Do not build giant cities in the desert = common sense. James
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Post by 39don on Jun 23, 2015 21:12:00 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ? Tomato plants need a lot of calcium to prevent blossom end rot. If you have blossom end rot currently you can spray a mix of 1 to 2 table spoons of calcium to a gal of water every 3 to 4 days on your plants. Or if you have time put 2 Tbsp of crushed eggshells and 1 Tbsp Epsom salts into a gallon of hot water. I put the water jugs outside and let that steep for a few days and water the plants with it. The Epsom salts will keep your plants from dropping the blooms but not if the whiteflys are causing them to drop. 39don
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Post by jamesp on Jun 24, 2015 5:00:34 GMT -5
What to do to prevent blossom end rot snuffy ? Tomato plants need a lot of calcium to prevent blossom end rot. If you have blossom end rot currently you can spray a mix of 1 to 2 table spoons of calcium to a gal of water every 3 to 4 days on your plants. Or if you have time put 2 Tbsp of crushed eggshells and 1 Tbsp Epsom salts into a gallon of hot water. I put the water jugs outside and let that steep for a few days and water the plants with it. The Epsom salts will keep your plants from dropping the blooms but not if the whiteflys are causing them to drop. 39don Spot on Don. Thanks. Heard the epsom salt thing but no idea about dose. Thanks
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Post by mrzulu on Jun 24, 2015 10:00:13 GMT -5
Some friends of mine get their water from a deep ground water well. Their well ran dry while his wife was in the shower yesterday.
He thought the pump just shut down. He tried to prime it....
Oooops! No water...
They are getting an above ground tank and water trucked 75 miles, on dirt, one way! Over 200 on paved! They live in the western mountains of Butte County, California
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Post by parfive on Jun 25, 2015 14:58:31 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Jun 25, 2015 19:49:15 GMT -5
I suppose the bright side is you'll be able to get really good buy on a boat
mostly
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 25, 2015 20:52:35 GMT -5
I was listening to an ad for renting houseboats on Shasta Lake on somebodies radio at work. People would still do that?!?
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Post by adam on Jun 26, 2015 7:33:03 GMT -5
I don't see why people continue to live in the desert, the economy it seems to me is not doing well. I've looked at towns throughout southern California and they are just about dried up completely. Maybe it's money troubles or family that are too bull headed to leave. I'd like to visit CA, but living there is a different story. My ex lives there and she only goes out at night. That's messed up, not able to leave your house when the sun is out.
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Post by captbob on Jun 26, 2015 8:31:29 GMT -5
So Lake Mead having a low water level is chuckle worthy? What kinda douchebag would consider a drought funny? Let me guess, you have some convoluted theory on how there were never droughts on the planet before humans started using fossil fuels. Nope, everything has to be a man made problem which only government spending and regulation can fix. The linked story says that lack of rainfall along with overusage has caused the record low water levels. " Drought or no drought, the river is overallocated," Maybe if humans weren't so freakin' stupid arrogant stupid as to build cities in the desert there wouldn't be such a high demand for the water in Lake Mead. But oh no... all would be solved if obama could just spread more money on the problem and the EPA continues to regulate every drop of water. Laugh it up chuckleboy, droughts are funny!
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