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bjrogg:
Got another.4” of rain yesterday. Cloudy and drizzling this morning.
Did get the soybeans unloaded yesterday but they were still too wet to harvest. At least they are off the sugar beet headlands. The headlands are where we turn at the ends of our sugar beet rows.
Despite a steady rain and pretty good breeze. We managed to get my son’s silage pile cover with plastic and held down with lime. This is a great feeling. I can remember doing this with Cass and so many others on this same pile. Many of the people who helped have passed and the new generation is now proving to be up to the task.
I didn’t get any pictures. Honestly it was a tall skinny pile and with rain making my windows and mirrors less than ideal it was a little scary. Add to that a dozen or so people who are laying down the plastic and shoveling lime from my bucket to hold the plastic down. It was a huge relief when it was all done.
We still haven’t dug any permanent pile beets yet. They have been getting shut down for beet temperatures above 52 degrees F every day and we were really hoping that the sugar content would improve.
The leaves on the trees are really starting to turn now. Usually the sugar content in the beets improves about the same time.
Supposed to rain next couple days so I don’t think we will dig beets till Monday.
Bjrogg
Pat B:
It's always a crap shoot at planting and harvest isn't it, Brian. Best of luck to you and all farmers at the critical times.
Marc St Louis:
Was a strange year for the garden up here. Somethings did OK and others did not. Lost half my garlic to rot and the lettuce refused to grow
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Pat B on October 20, 2023, 11:47:04 am ---It's always a crap shoot at planting and harvest isn't it, Brian. Best of luck to you and all farmers at the critical times.
--- End quote ---
Yes it is Pat. It’s funny because we basically start out with the same agenda every spring or at least close to it. I’ve been doing this full time for 40 years and grew up with it before that. I don’t remember two years that were the same. Sometimes they are similar but never the same.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on October 20, 2023, 02:57:49 pm ---Was a strange year for the garden up here. Somethings did OK and others did not. Lost half my garlic to rot and the lettuce refused to grow
--- End quote ---
It has been a strange one here to Marc. I think a lot of it had to do with the smoke from the forest fires. It definitely cut our photosynthesis a considerable amount. Some plants seemed to like that and others didn’t.
Most of my garden looked great. But then the diseases took over and the plants died before they matured. They were very slow maturing.
We were extremely lucky. Normally by the middle of summer there are a couple dozen things I would have done differently. It’s almost November and I can only think of two things I would have done differently. I would have applied the first preventative for white mold two days earlier on our pinto beans ( or maybe just planted all black beans instead) and not planted as many soybeans. Still don’t have them harvested. I’m afraid many in this area weren’t as fortunate. Still a lot of edible beans out there
In my garden well I certainly wouldn’t have put the effort into my muskmelons and watermelons that I did. They grew lots of vine. Set lots of fruit but I don’t think I’m going to get a single rip melon.
Bjrogg
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