The Brushpile

[Brushpile]

Rain! 90% chance, plus there has been a couple inches of snow.

Today was spent doing TSI. If I had it to do over again, I'd have planted everything so that it could be mowed. Mowing not only keeps down weeds, it keeps down unwanted trees. Where I can't mow TSI is required to prevent junk trees from out competing what was planted, and it's a lot of work, when mowing would have been a snap! TSI is hard work with a machete and a spray bottle of gly, tree after tree, one at a time.. day after day.

 

[Brushpile]

I'll bet there hasn't been an inch of rain since last July! Last night either the well went dry or the pump burned out. No chance of rain in the forecast... might have to dig a deeper well!

 

[lakngolf]

I'll bet there hasn't been an inch of rain since last July! Last night either the well went dry or the pump burned out. No chance of rain in the forecast... might have to dig a deeper well!

Oh my. Hate to hear that Brushpile. Did you figure out the problem?

 

[Brushpile]

Oh my. Hate to hear that Brushpile. Did you figure out the problem?

The problem was with the pump. That pump often runs 24/7, it's running right now.

 

[Brushpile]

This tree is a Cold Stream Farm Crabapple that was cut off and grafted with larger variety apple about five years ago. Here you can clearly see two trees, the crabapple bottom and the apple top.


It appears that the apple top might outgrow the crabapple bottom

 

[Brushpile]

I have been hacking a squirting unwanted trees. Here a Hybrid Poplar is out competing a Sawtooth Oak.

Here HP is outcompeting Chinese Chestnut.

Here a Mulberry is competing with an Allegheny Chinkapin.

 

[cutman]

You’ve got some huge rain coming this week. Be careful.

 

[Brushpile]

You’ve got some huge rain coming this week. Be careful.

Yes, and when this happens I always hope that this area will cycle back to normal weather and that once again we'll get normal monthly averages. This rain is coming just in time for planting season.

 

[cutman]

How much rain have you gotten so far?

 

[E_308]

I'd gladly send you some ice, we have had plenty this week.

 

[Brushpile]

How much rain have you gotten so far?

The temperatures have hovered around freezing, so I don't have a rain gauge out yet, but the ground is wet, the river is flowing and the pond has filled. Rain has come at a time when the ground was too dry to plant anything. Winter wheat planted last Fall never germinated, clover plots died, and I have Chokeberry and Ninebark to plant.

Thanks for thinking of us who haven't seen a good rain since July!

 

[Brushpile]

I'd gladly send you some ice, we have had plenty this week.

We get ice too, and the roads here aren't straight or level. However I'm glad to get any form of moisture to include ice, so long as the ice doesn't cause damage.

 

[Brushpile]

Flooding today!!! More rain on the way, and pics to follow.

 

[Brushpile]

I don't have the rain gauge out yet, but it rained a bunch!
Water flowing out of the pond!

The low water bridge!


The other low water bridge!

Behind the house.

 

[Brushpile]

It's dangerous to go near the river, as massive amounts of water and debris are roaring down stream. Usually a few people drown in these floods, because the water is too powerful to swim, and can rise so rapidly.

 

[lakngolf]

Brush you've been praying for rain too much. It's all coming at once

 

[dogdoc]

Brush you've been praying for rain too much. It's all coming at once

Feast or famine these days...

 

[Brushpile]

Brush you've been praying for rain too much. It's all coming at once

It always does, but normal average rainfall has not returned.

 

[Brushpile]

Feast or famine these days...

Yes, and famine is a concern. Everything I have is established, but can't produce without rain.

 

[Brushpile]

Brush you've been praying for rain too much. It's all coming at once

That's the problem! There has not been consistent rain during the growing season. I helped a neighbor plant trees two years ago and he lost 40% during the Fall and Winter drought! This rain was a life saver! Now there needs to be more rain in the weeks to come; I'd be happy to get half of the historical average!