[AT] OT Happy white easter

[charlie hill]

Grant,  sorry to hear you are having crop problems.  I hope the frost damage 
isn’t as bad as you fear.

If you don't mind, would you give me/us a quick lesson on how to properly 
fertilize potatoes.  I know that if you put too much to them they will not 
turn out well.  I'd like to know how you do it or for that matter how anyone 
on the list does as long as you are a successful potato grower.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Grant Brians
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:52 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Happy white easter

Here in the Santa Clara Valley of California we just had three days with
frost in a row! This is unheard of and was deadly for the Squash and
Cucumbers! The Potatoes (1st planting not the smaller subsequent plantings)
have a modest level of frost damage, I am hoping that with an extra
application of fertilizer they will still yield at a very good level. The
Tomatoes appear to have made it through with only slow growth and perhaps
modest yield effects. The last four years have yielded 3 years of the lowest
low temperatures in April we have had since records started around 1800.
Previously we have usually not had frost after mid-February almost every
year. Many years there woulf not be frost in February even. On the other
hand, as mentioned by people on the list and weather folk, the high
temperatures in February and March across much of the country (including
here) were very unseasonable too. We normally do get highs in the 60s in
February and march at least part of the time, but they were in the 70s much
more than usual. Climate change is real.
     We lost more root crops than usual to early flowering with the weather
this year, yet we were colder than usual part of the time too. I'm hoping
that the warm season crops end up not having the problems with lack of heat
that the last several years presented.
           Grant Brians

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:54 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Happy white easter


On 4/7/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> Ralph they are calling for snow flurries here on Tuesday and
Wednesday,hope
> nothing like you got.
> R Fink
> PA
>
>
Richard, its nothing new for us. We could get another spring blizzard
like this a month from now and it would not be unheard of. In the hammer
mill video I posted yesterday you can see the beautiful weather we had
with sunshine and temps in the high 60s. Thats why today is such a
contrast. I'm not touching the snow shovel though. At 30 degrees I think
it will be melting if I have a little patience. Just sit back and listen
to the gas furnace running, wishing I still had that wood stove.

Ralph in Sask.

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