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Misc 2019 Banter & Friendly Conservation

Tarheel1 said:
Got to put in a lot of work. Getting soil ready, fighting off bugs and disease. I consider myself a decent gardener, and I struggle with tomatoes every year. Then the hornworms get em! Hot peppers grow well, bell peppers not so much! You just about can’t kill basil, just have well drained soil. Grew cucumbers for the first time last year, they were very successful! Keep good water on stuff from a drip hose, water splashing up on tomatoes and stuff, from overhead watering,is bad. Keep everything fertilized well. If you don’t soil test, just use 10-10-10 fertilizer
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The only way to get rid of the horn worms is to look the plants over every day and find those suckers and kill them before they eat too much. They can be a pistol to find, due to their excellent camouflage and the ability to remain perfectly still when you are moving the plants around. Just look around the area of missing leaves and you'll eventually see them.
As for cucumbers, I have found that they climb very well. I have section of fencing that I previously used for roses, and that works really well. They completely cover that thing and I can pick them without bending over and hunting. Also, the cucumbers have no soil on them and I only have to give them a quick rinse before they are ready to eat.
 
Cad Wedge NC said:
The only way to get rid of the horn worms is to look the plants over every day and find those suckers and kill them before they eat too much. They can be a pistol to find, due to their excellent camouflage and the ability to remain perfectly still when you are moving the plants around. Just look around the area of missing leaves and you'll eventually see them.
As for cucumbers, I have found that they climb very well. I have section of fencing that I previously used for roses, and that works really well. They completely cover that thing and I can pick them without bending over and hunting. Also, the cucumbers have no soil on them and I only have to give them a quick rinse before they are ready to eat.
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Yeah, I have seen hornworms defoliate a single 5’ plant overnight! I try to keep an eye out, but they are voracious! Also y’all should grow moonvine, if you’ve never tried them! Easy to grow from seed and will take over a trellis in weeks! Huge whit flowers, smell great! Only an annual!
 
Fishing has been picking up lately. Bass really starting to get in shallower water. We had double digits after the rain today. Best time of year approaching for the water
 
Hadn't said it until now but there was a day this week that I felt was an immaculate weather day. 72 degrees, so it felt a bit warm at times, but the wind made it feel cool, and it was fairly dry.

Then today was on the warmer side but then after some rain came through, it really cooled off and I had pho for the first time in my life due to it. It was pretty good.
 
Nothing like 2 hour baseball practice in 44 degree weather, and wind gusts of 25 mph +! Winning
 
Will gladly take 3 consecutive upcoming nights in the 40's and 3 days in the 60's, one of them 62º, and some rain to wash out the pollen, in mid-March, in Gainesville FL, thank you ... :rolleyes:
 
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FFC concerned that a drought may be developing soon in GA:

Too soon to tell what rest of the spring will look like, but
starting to see signs in CFS v2 and other climate models that
drought conditions may further develop over middle GA and could
spread north unless we get back in wet pattern.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
FFC concerned that a drought may be developing soon in GA:

Too soon to tell what rest of the spring will look like, but
starting to see signs in CFS v2 and other climate models that
drought conditions may further develop over middle GA and could
spread north unless we get back in wet pattern.
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Pretty dry inside 200hr but plenty of precip from 200 on. I’m not sure there’s cause for concern right now
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SoutheastRidge said:
FFC concerned that a drought may be developing soon in GA:

Too soon to tell what rest of the spring will look like, but
starting to see signs in CFS v2 and other climate models that
drought conditions may further develop over middle GA and could
spread north unless we get back in wet pattern.
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I could use 30 days rain free.


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Jimmy Hypocracy said:
It would be nice if we could dry out for a couple weeks. I need to throw some seed out. My yard looks like dog excrement
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I put down some tall fescue seed a few days ago when temps were in the upper 60s and we were due to get some rain the next day. Of course we barely got any and don’t have any in sight for a good while. I can’t even remember the last time I was looking at extended dry conditions of a week or more. It damn sure wasn’t last summer when I had to mow literally every 5 days for the whole season. Then to top it off the forecast is showing me getting to freezing or slightly below every morning for the better part of this next week. Forecast was for 31-32 this morning and I ended up at 30 degrees by 1am with a low of 26 this morning. I don’t know if this will kill the seeds but it can’t be good for them.
 
olhausen said:
I put down some tall fescue seed a few days ago when temps were in the upper 60s and we were due to get some rain the next day. Of course we barely got any and don’t have any in sight for a good while. I can’t even remember the last time I was looking at extended dry conditions of a week or more. It damn sure wasn’t last summer when I had to mow literally every 5 days for the whole season. Then to top it off the forecast is showing me getting to freezing or slightly below every morning for the better part of this next week. Forecast was for 31-32 this morning and I ended up at 30 degrees by 1am with a low of 26 this morning. I don’t know if this will kill the seeds but it can’t be good for them.
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cold won't kill seed ... if they haven't germinated, you should be good.
 
olhausen said:
I put down some tall fescue seed a few days ago when temps were in the upper 60s and we were due to get some rain the next day. Of course we barely got any and don’t have any in sight for a good while. I can’t even remember the last time I was looking at extended dry conditions of a week or more. It damn sure wasn’t last summer when I had to mow literally every 5 days for the whole season. Then to top it off the forecast is showing me getting to freezing or slightly below every morning for the better part of this next week. Forecast was for 31-32 this morning and I ended up at 30 degrees by 1am with a low of 26 this morning. I don’t know if this will kill the seeds but it can’t be good for them.
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Na that won’t kill seed. You really can’t kill seed. Flooding rains are the main threat to was it away.


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For the severe wx junkies, I finally stopped procrastinating and uploaded the rest of that tornado outbreak coverage I mentioned here last month from February 2009. You can watch it in this playlist if you're interested. Lots of interesting stuff stood out to me like the creepy robotic EAS bulletin narrator reading the Tornado Warnings. If you had Comcast as a cable provider back then, it automatically interrupted regular programming (local or cable channels) to play this EAS weather bulletin if our county was under an active Tornado Warning. Part 4 has an example of this if you skip to around 7:35 into the video.


I recently looked through my Google Cloud and I also have a little bit of video coverage of the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak and Aftermath coverage, January 9-11, 2011 Snowstorm coverage, Snowjam 2014, Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Great Atlanta Flood of 2009, and Triple Digit Heat Wave of 2012 (The Weather Channel) if there's any interest in that as well.

EDIT: This was also on the same VHS tape, since I was recording on a blank tape in real-time I forgot that if I flip back and forth between other channels the VCR would record those channels as well. That's why the coverage from WSB-TV may be missing some footage in between each part. I was watching this channel and The Weather Channel.
 
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RIP winter 18/19! You were truly a great one!! 4D9839D2-2FD3-4FD3-BAB9-C824D042AE29.png
 
Atleast this can still happen, but not in winter! The CAD coming in stronger than forecast!?
Fire danger, lol! We’re like 2000% above normal rainfall!F2D51A3B-17FF-421E-81B4-435E4A587E37.png
 
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