A nice ilttle storm cell rolled through for me a little while ago and I got .49". Excited to not have to water for a few days!
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Another storm chance tomorrow.
Iâve been irrigating with compost tea every two weeks now so I havenât been as concerned with our dry spell. That being said we are due to get rain overnight tonight. The last front broke up leaving little to do a proper soaking so hopefully the same doesnât happen this time around. Things are looking healthy in either case.
Iâm seeing some chatter of up to 3â of rain next weekend. We shall see.
An inch of needed rain Friday night.
We only got 0.5â Saturday after a lot of hype.
We are relatively dry this spring as well, although we got a good soaking yesterday. Recent springs have been excessively wet, which has made black knot increasingly difficult to control among other issues. Droughts can be a good thing as long as they donât go on too long. They are especially welcome in the 2-3 weeks preceding harvest of any given variety.
Spring droughts only become a big problem for growers when available water becomes depleted from the soil, and that takes some time, depending on depth and texture of the soil (and maybe competing conifers). In areas with winter and where most trees are deciduous, soil is almost always at max moisture holding capacity coming into spring so you should have a pretty good buffer. Until the soil starts getting too dry and wells start to fail, drought is always good- at least in the northeast.
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I prayed for rain, and instead of the 1/2 inch in the forecastâŚgot over an inch.
Happy camper here.
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Got dumped on. Nearly 3 inches of rain from last night.
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Probably a quarter inch at most here. But, the higher terrain farther east is getting good rain still, and more forecast through Sat/Sun.
It is raining todav (Sat) and forecast is to rain through Mon and maybe into Tue.
Lot of rain passed this weekend, more than 3 inches, soil is squishy. Last year, around the same conditions, Phytophthora hit hard and killed all my canefruit. This year, will be planting in mounds in a different location.
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@sockworth Farther north in NJ we are expecting at least 1 maybe 2 more days of rain. The only things that I have that arenât in mound or pots are a couple of elderberries, a pair of hazels and a trio of blueberries. Others on this forum I think have convinced me that the blueberries should also be in mounds but it is too late for that.
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In my NY area rainfall was above average last year and so far this year.
We have made up for lack of rain this last couple of days with something like 3-4 inches in Maryland⌠no drought threat here any more.
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Iâm starting to see signs of what looks like the start of fireblight. Keep an eye out for strikes on susceptible tree species with all this rain.
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Iâll be up late tomorrow night spraying. That will be my first opportunity after three days of rain and not a speck of surround left on the pears. I havenât sprayed apples or peaches yet.
Fireblight prefers weather warmer than the current spell. I got a few strikes during the heat we had previously, there were a few patches of rain along with the mostly dry weather then.
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Weâre probably still âabnormally dryâ in some spots. I only got a little over 2 inches at my house and my 2023 deficit was 5 inches before Friday, so still stands at around 3â.
That got me thinking what is actually âabnormally dryâ. It seems fairly multimodal dealing with soil moisture, river flow rate, etc.