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bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Buckskinner on May 05, 2022, 10:56:00 am ---All the people up in arms about global warming, what would really be devastating is global cooling.
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And we know that’s happened several times in the not so distant past. At least in geological time.
Bjrogg
WhistlingBadger:
The Badgerling went a little nuts with the garden seeds. They're taking up most of the kitchen table now. But most of them are sprouted and hopefully we'll get them into the garden in the next week or two. Hard to post pictures because I can't post from my chromebook at home--something about the forum's security settings being out of date--but I'll try to get some one of these days. Enjoying the journey with you, BJ.
M2A:
Figured the cool spring was just a local thing but sounds more wide spread. I have noticed the trend for delayed warm weather in the spring for a number of years now. Without looking into my records I'd say 2 weeks from the weather patterns in the 90's. This year being the latest I can recall. That said the warm weather lasts longer in the fall.
Had one good dry day this week, spent all day in the orchards yesterday. Raining now and suppost to continue till Sunday. Bloom is almost over, Sent word to the bee keeper to get his ladies out this weekend. Looks like the cold weather threat is over here, Should have a good set of fruit this year. Long way to go yet but real happy with things so far. Have not had time to check on the corn but hear its up and doing fine. The rest of the crew showed up this week from down south, all been here before, good group of guys. Should be picking strawberries in 1 month.
Mike
bjrogg:
Hopefully you can post pictures when things are greening up WB.
Mike glad to hear things are looking good so far. I know that whole long way to go bit to. It’s always nice to get off to a good start though. Always hate getting behind and trying to catch up.
It’s still cool, cloudy and damp here yet. It isn’t raining though and sounds like we should be able to put a long enough string of dry days together to start planting in a few days.
I’m confident enough now that we mixed up fertilizer and loaded it in our truck.
Also opened beet seed boxes and mixed talcum powder. Our planter uses vacuum to hold the seed against the seed plate. It turns the plate to a spot that doesn’t have vacuum and the seed drops. It’s actually a lot more complicated than that, but that’s the jest of it. The vacuum causes static electricity and sometimes prevents the small seed from dropping so we use talcum powder mixed in our seed to keep the static from holding the seed. I’m going to mix it all today and it will save me a lot of time when I’m actually planting.
This is what the seed I plant looks like. It’s processed and they coat it with a ground up paper product to make it more plantable. Each company has its own color. This one’s is blue.
It comes in boxes and each box holds 4 units. Each unit is 100,000 seed so 400,000 seeds in a box.
The raw seed without the coating. In the old days each seed would grow several plants. They had to be “blocked” or thinned. Mono germ seed saved a lot of labor.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Also because I still have individual hoppers for each row. I figure out how many lbs. of each variety I have and divide that by 18 for the number of hoppers. Then when I’m filling the planter I weigh how much I put in each hopper. That takes a little extra time but saves me a lot of time and hassle trying to scratch seed from hoppers that still have seed and putting it in ones that ran out.
Planting time can be really hard to come by so when I get it I want to spend as much of it actually planting as I can and the least amount filling the planter and scratching seed.
Bjrogg
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