[AT] digging potatoes

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

The land was too wet to harrow over once without letting it air dry last 
Tues. We've had close to 5 inches of rain since then. My milo is coming up, 
should know in a couple days how good of a stand we'll have. I'm worried it 
is going to rot with all this rain. We had a storm come thru Friday night 
and did a lot of damage in areas of my corn fields and some of my early 
milo. We had milo leaning in 2-3 directions, makes me think there was some 
rotation with that wind. It broke a few trees to the west of me, and even 
brought a couple out of the ground. It ripped some tin off a shed that we 
had a load of hay under. I got the roof fixed, but most of the hay was lost. 
Not happy about this weather, but compared to some folks we are very 
fortunate. There is a lot of wheat left to be harvested here and the window 
for planting soybeans should close this week. I'm sure there will be some 
risk takers that will plant some real late beans, probably be OK unless we 
get an early frost.

What's that old saying, a drought will scare you but wet weather will kill 
you?

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 4:38 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] digging potatoes

John we've had tropical style rains every day here for close to 2 weeks.
Last weekend we had near continuous rain
totally about 3 1/2 inches.  It rained off and on all of this week and then
last night it started raining about midnight
and rained steadily all night long and has rained on and off all day.

So far my sandy loam seems to be taking it and my tomatoes and potatoes are
still nice and dark green (the foliage)
so I guess it hasn't washed all the nitrogen out of the soil yet.
Everything is still standing up.  If it ever stops
raining long enough for me to walk in the garden with out making a mud hole
I'm going to plant some squash, beans, cukes
and peppers for the fall.

The only thing I'm worried about now is an early hurricane.  If we get one
anytime soon with the soil saturated and the tree tops
full of foliage half the trees in the county will be on the ground.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 2:46 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] digging potatoes

Around here this is shaping up to be my personal tale of the wettest growing
and planting season ever. I think normal is hot and dry, praying for rain
(at least this time of the year).

John

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dave Rotigel
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 1:13 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] digging potatoes

I fave never heard a farmer say "This is a normal year."! I'm sure one must
have said it ONCE--but..............
Dave

On Jun 30, 2013, at 11:38 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>   As cool as the spring has been here I suspect they may do
> alright but
> in a normal year they wouldn't do good this late.
>
> Charlie

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