Just as I figured, the cherries have started to crack from the rain
another 1.5in. of rain in the next 48hrs. then 1 day in the upper 80âs then back into the low 70âs.need to spray the cherries again sat. so far the spray i put on at the orchard has kept the tent catipillars at bay. all the deciduous trees around it are stripped bare like winter. hopefully this is the last summer in their cycle for awhile.
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I have some sour cherries and they are full of plum curculio. I donât spray them. I think iâm going to woodchip them since iâm not a huge fan.
I donât get curcs in my cherries. Main problem is birds.
Heat headed in today. Havenât had the AC yet this year but that will change.
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102-104 in the shade all week. It is called the Canicule, which means heat wave, One long week the end of June, and two weeks in July then the temperatures decrease to a bearable 80 degree median.
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Pretty much every cherry i found has a curculio larvae in it but maybe the birds will eat them.
96F sat and 95F sunday. Record is 102F (1988) tomorrow and 97F (1995) Sunday. Doubt we top them. Record low temp for June is 80F so that could be closeâforecast is 78F sat nite. Cooler next week.
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Last night it got down to 72, pretty awesome since the low the evening prior was 84. Letting the dog out at 9pm to be met with 86* was pretty jarring
At least these constant near triple digit temps bring nearly daily showers which save me a lot of time watering everything.
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107 today, Stayed in all afternoon. Will go out for dinner outside!
100F right now in Omaha with a 70F dewpoint. Weâll tap into that tomorrow. 88F here --very windy this afternoon.
Moving all my strawberry containers into the shade for the weekend. Thatâll be fun.
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Rainy season has really gotten going here the last few weeks. The food forest is going bonkers now. A good problem to have I think.
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Low was 79F overnite. Felt like i was in Miami last night. Dews in the 70Fs.
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Typical for down here just hot with some afternoon showers. Going to be in triple digits today for the first time this year with the humidity feels like temperature is gonna be about 109 however . however I was checking the weather looks like certain areas to the north or actually warmer then what we are experiencing.
103 degrees and super humid. Felt bad for people coming to Omaha for the college world series the past week.
.Tony
93F here but the winds are near 40mph. Bad hair day.
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Codling moth trap stands at 24, so flight activity continues. One might be tempted to suspect a second peak. This yearâs first flight seems to be a long, drawn-out, albeit heavy affair. University of Wisconsin recommendation is to hold off spraying until late in such situations.
Treatments at 350 gdds are advisable when trap counts are intermittent or initially low after the biofix, as has been as the case for most cooperating orchards this season.
- Wisconsin. WIDATCP. âField Notes.â 19 Jun. 2025. 22 Jun 2025 <https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIDATCP/bulletins/3e5d7ce >.
I myself am looking at any available rain-free, heat-free window, starting about WED or THU for first cover spray. That should be about 250 GDDs. Iâll do a little captan, malathion (or carbaryl if I havenât finished thinning), foliar calcium, foliar fertilizer, and Surroundâ˘.
After a week of triple digits looks like weâll be in the '80s this week. Also, They are giving us fair chance of getting some rain.
So far weâve had itâs 0.9 in of rain for the year. Last year we hae over 6 in at this time, And we were in a drought then. Generally we get several inches of rain July August September. Last year from now to December we got one and a half inches.
We are all praying the monsoons do come.
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I always chuckle when I see people move to a desert and then pray for rain. Itâs a desert. It can go years with little rain. When it does rain most of the rain runs off because too much of the soil is bare. Your soil doesnât look any better than ours; fine textured powder that seals over when wet.
The runoff might have one good outcome. It concentrates the water in small areas, that if permeable, can contribute to ground water recharge.
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Record high low temp for June is 80FâŚNWS shows the low was 80F overnite so we should be good to tie that today. The warmest low temp for La Crosse is 81F hit multiple times in July (1995/2012) âso close.
Yesterday was 97Fâtoday 95F> Very windy. Looking at the wind map you can see the local wind flow is basically coming right out of Houston, TX. No wonder we are cooking. Still very humid. Rain/storm chances all next week. Much cooler.
cool wind map if you havenât seen it
http://hint.fm/wind/
You got a stash of carbaryl?
I sprayed just before the heat moved in. Little black pinpricks on the apples.
98-99 yesterday afternoon almost all the way from 4 hours southeast of here back home. A bit less hot today. Then some highs in the 70s.
A buddy near Madison, WI reports 93 yesterday. Winters are longer and colder here, plus we get more extreme highs than down there.
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