After the Texas weather last year, who would have guessed that too much rain would be a problem? Was the Houston area part of that drought?
Bob
Bob
Leverhead's T Patch
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leverhead
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Oh yea. The Fourth of July last year was so quiet the cats even stayed out all night. 50 miles North of here, where the wind blows pretty steady in the summer, there's big stretches where everything burned, even the roads.
I planned for a little rain and for drought, but not a turd floater.
Tom_in_TN
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Hey, the way life works is this....The very thing that happens to us is (fill-in blank here), which is exactly what we did NOT plan on happening to us....come'on admit it, you know it's true!!!!
BTW, that patch of tobacco on your place looks pretty nice and should come through OK.
leverhead
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Usually this sort of stuff is done by May and doesn't start back up until September, if we get it at all. It's almost acting like water coming up from underneath.
Tom_in_TN
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Yeah, we had a wet spring, then straight into a drought with record breaking heat and now back to 3 or 4 rain periods every day with high temps in the low 70's. At least the water hasn't started coming up from beneath the plants, well at least not yet!!!
leverhead
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Things aint so great in the T-Patch. Some times it rains in SE Texas, more than foot.
I'm salvaging what I can, yellowing on a string and puttin' em in the sun to dry.
My temper is a little short, so close.....
I'm salvaging what I can, yellowing on a string and puttin' em in the sun to dry.
My temper is a little short, so close.....
BarG
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Time to harvest. Holler at me if you need a hand. It all looks salvageable if you get them before the sun scalds and mud rots them. The rain is gone.
leverhead
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I appreciate the thought! They get scalded By noon then it clouds up and rains on them some more, in the middle where everything has fallen over, it's still too soft to wade into. What I'm getting out of there is real thin and all the good stuff is washed off. It only rained 1/4 inch this afternoon, just out on 1488 didn't get any! What, maybe 100 yards? With this high pressure moving in will give the up stalk leaves a chance to make some more stick.
leverhead
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch. I had 15 Yellow twist buds growing, they never did enough to show anybody. Much closer to Houston, the soil is terrible, it gets wet and turns to muck. Fertilizer damage or Nemitoads?
Any Ideas?
Any Ideas?
leverhead
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We do, I promise! This year we have other problems, wind and rain. Has any body heard from BarG yet? It looks like he got roughed up last night, it ran out of stuff before it got to me.
leverhead
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Hey Chicken, do you have any of these? If I can catch them, I'll send you some.
Ishi
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Not Chicken but yes I do. How many do you want?
Dan
Dan
There are some real good chemicals that will take care of them. I use Semaspore in the spring. It is Organic. I can't spread nasty chemicals in my field because my chickens will eat the stuff and since I eat them, I don't want to eat the stuff neither.
BarG
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Hey Steve,
No we been hot and sunny, everythings been missing us for the last several days. Good thing since I've started a more serious harvest than mud lugs. I'd like to catch up on how your harvest is coming along. Have you ever heard of the Rose garden bar in houston? I'll be heading that way for a fish fry mid august, I'll see if I can't get you and your wife an invite if your interested. It would be good to see you again. It will be mostly a bunch of beer drinkin old fogies.
leverhead
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I'm glad it missed you! It seems there's more than enough weather problems this year for everybody. I've been pickin' a bunch, I have tunnels between my rows now. The flue curing has been acting like an ex-wife, bustin' my ass at every turn. I think (hope) I've got everything back up and running, I'll know more tomorrow. So where is the Rose Garden? It sounds familiar, I'll ask the wife if she's up to some socializing, it would be good to get out.
I'm going to try a double load tomorrow! That damn thing looks like a green Saturn 5, with the 2 drums on it, it's about 7 feet tall. If it starts behaving, I can bring you a hand to put through your new shredder.
I'm going to try a double load tomorrow! That damn thing looks like a green Saturn 5, with the 2 drums on it, it's about 7 feet tall. If it starts behaving, I can bring you a hand to put through your new shredder.
BarG
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I got freaked out this year and actualy grew some tobacco! Man I tell you I have had to make some tobacco hanging areas . I'm doing pretty good with it though.
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