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bjrogg:
This time of year is feast or famine. Usually spotty showers and the places that get them seem to keep getting them, while the ones that don’t get them continue to not get them.
We’ve had some of both this year, but I’m not complaining.
Our personal crops look good.
The sugar beets have 30” wide rows filled out nicely already and the rain they just got should really help them put some tons on early. We want them to get and use their nitrogen early. Put on tons and then in the fall start making sugar and storing it in their roots.
Sugar Beets
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Our pinto beans are starting to blossom. The cool moist rain and weather predicted is ideal for white mold. I’m trying to put a fungicide on them between showers.
White mold can be devastating around here. We do as many things as we can to help control it.
We plant lower populations and wide row spacing to help give plants a little more room.
We try to grow varieties that are narrow and stand well to keep them off the ground.
We rotate crops
And we use fungicides much like a person would for a yeast infection or athletes foot
The fungicide we use is very short lived and the timing of applying it is very important. If I have the environmental conditions favorable for it I would really like to get an application as soon as the plants have their first blossoms. The fungus enters the plant through the blossoms. We put a protectant on the blossom to help prevent the fungus from growing on and entering into the blossoms.
It’s raining again. I have to put it on a dry plant and it needs to dry on so I’m waiting to mix anymore
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Yesterday morning I managed to spray one more batch in between rain showers.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Then it was time to go to the county park for my favorite granddaughter’s birthday party. She’s my only granddaughter so I can say that. She might be my favorite even if I had another. She is a sweet heart and I have very much enjoyed watching her grow up. Can’t believe she’s 17 already and going to be a senior this fall.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We no more than cut the cake and it started raining. It poured for probably about 45 minutes. We all crowded into the camper and she opened her presents. Mostly books. She is a real bookworm and whenever she gets a chance she has a book in her hand.
Bjrogg
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