DGBAMA
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Sometimes you can "pay em of"but they are never "paid 4", the payments never end.
Dgbama 2014 grow blog
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AmaxB
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That looks great Dg those wide spaces will all but vanish in a few months, can't wait to see
Mad Oshea
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Thank the Lord Every one planted big this year. Is there a way to give them some type of shade, Like a rag on a stick?
Chance of rain for the next six days, maybe the cloudy days will help with recovery.
DGBAMA
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Hoping so. Most of the leaves they were planted with are crispy and white, but many are showing a single new leaf about a half inch long.
That sounds promising. Hardening off was a major pain this year with rain and cloudy days alternating with some sun. I had to start over a couple of times. Mine are wilting down during the day but standing up at night. The window in the basement looks kind of lonely now, but I'm sure glad they are in the field and planting is behind me. 80% chance of rain tomorrow. I have lime and fertilizer over everything except the tobacco, so I guess I'm ready for some rain.
Boboro
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The rain is here. Its good for the plants in the patch but I have a lot to put out left.
Rickey60
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I am glad to hear that, maybe you are out of the woods. This rain headed your way will give them a shot in the arm, and a couple cloudy day will help also I think.
Your rain will be here this afternoon or evening. I got all my grass limed and fertilized and some clover and creeping red fescue (shade tolerant) seed sowed. I just hope it rains slow and easy and doesn't wash everything down the hill.
Rickey60
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If you get the rain we had it will be slow an steady. That's what I have had all day.
DGBAMA
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Glad you got a good rain. Mine got 3" while I was at work today. Every storm drain in the neighborhood overflowed. From one extreme to the other..
I think the clover I sowed in the patch is okay, but the Creeping Red Fescue I sowed on the hill will need overseeding after all this rain is over. It was washed off the bare spots. The rain was good for washing in the lime and fertilizer I spread in the yard and around my trees and bushes. Things should really start greening up now. I haven't fertilized the patch, aside from manure.
Did you get any damage, or just a frog strangling rain?
Did you get any damage, or just a frog strangling rain?
DGBAMA
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Enough dirt washed around to bury some of the plants that had just started trying to recover. Spent an hour picking debris of plants that the runoff piled up against them.
garryricketson
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Wishing mine looked like that, (my planting).
Is water coming in from two directions? West and South? (I'm guessing the pictures were taken in the evening)
DGBAMA
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The drainage that runs beside the length of the patch clogged with sticks, leaves, etc; overflowed andRan across the patch.
Indianamac
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How's the patch DG? If it ain't the cold, it's the floods!! Hope all is well.
DGBAMA
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Hangin in there. From sunburnt to flooded now the rain brought the slugs out. Not as bad as it could have been. Probably a 10-15% loss. Have a few spares to put in next weekend. At least 2 leaves on most, but still not as big as when I put them in the ground.
Boboro
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I had almost no rain from that system. The way it sat on top of ya,ll looked oddly like last year.
There's a 30-40% chance of rain for the next four days. An optimist would say that's a 60-70% chance that it won't rain. I'm kinda ridin' the fence on that choice. I reseeded my hill with dense shade tolerant fescue and put some wheat straw down this time. I hope I can get it to come up before we get another frog strangler. When that first storm hit the other day it rained like pouring piss out of a boot for about 30 minutes and that was just enough to wash my seed off the big bare spots I had.
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