Early planting season

[Texasmark]

The haying Gods are smiling on Utah right now. My fields are up a couple inches in growth and now it's raining. :dance1:
The forcast is for more rain over the weekend and more next week.

OK, we are getting a lot of rain.View attachment 503173

That's usually the way it goes around here. It will stay dry for a spell and then, usually in Spring, the fronts will come in. If they have enough velocity they dump a reasonable sum and move on down to the SE. It's when they stall out over us that it rains for days and days and just makes a big mess.

Living on black clay, known for shrinking and expanding, roadways and foundations are a joke. My house has sheet rock cracked in every room. One of the ells off my house has moved away from the main house by about 4". I just got tired of shimming up every June and pulling them back out every Dec. Now I just let it rock.

Did get my fert in and harrowed. Expecting good rains next week and get my drilling done so I can hopefully kick off a growing season.

 

[cat fever]

So yesterday was a record for the most rain in one day for Salt Lake City. 2" of rain in a day, we only get about 16" a year. I'm sure where I live I got a little more. I did say I'd take water any way I could get it right? Here's a shot after it cleared.

 

[joeu235]

You have a beautiful place!

What kind of crop do you grow in that climate? Wheat?

 

[cat fever]

In the past I have had Alfalfa and Oats.
This year I planted a mix called "Prosper Plus with Peas" Great cow feed.
This is the mix;
31.48% Twin wheat
29.15% Hays Barley
24.44% Otana Oats
14.55% Austrian Peas
It is all guaranteed "beardless forage seed".

Many people in my area water their fields; I do not own the water shares to do that.
A wet spring will give me more hay than I can use so I'll sell the rest. I only started doing this with my own equipment 2 years ago. Both years were great as far as I'm concerned. This one is shaping up good too. Plus my neighbor in front said I could grow in his field and keep everything. He just wants his place to look "taken care of". So far he seems very happy with how I am managing his field.

 

[kevin37b]

I am sure he is !

 

[City Farmer]

So yesterday was a record for the most rain in one day for Salt Lake City. 2" of rain in a day, we only get about 16" a year. I'm sure where I live I got a little more. I did say I'd take water any way I could get it right? Here's a shot after it cleared.View attachment 503280View attachment 503279View attachment 503278

Beautiful place. Those are some of the nicest pictures I've ever seen.

 

[cat fever]

Thanks City farmer. I enjoy where I live, although summer time can get dry and dusty.

 

[cat fever]

My fields are starting to look like they are growing. It's been wet enough, still cold though. Here's a few shots I took last night.
The field in the last picture is on the side of my house, beyond the fence is my neighbors place which he is letting me grow in.

 

[Texasmark]

Nice looking place, fence especially.

I worked last week getting the ground ready and fertilizer incorporated. Been hit and miss on the rain to get it planted. Yesterday AM I went out and checked and the field was dry as a bone as far down as I needed to drill. So I did, then soft harrowed to get all the splashed seeds (rattled) down in the dirt. Today 1-2" of rain is on it's way....should be here within the hour. Can't believe it but this year has been the best year since 1979 for me to get a thorough field preparation, fertilization, and planting with the weather cooperating. I'll take it.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I tilled up my garden in mid Feb the first time. Right afterward had a cold front so held off on doing any planting. This week I put in my tomatoes, bell pepper, habanero pepper, , cantaloupe, yellow squash & zucchini using bedded plants. Yesterday, I planted from seed, okra, red beets and watermelon.

I hope we don't get a gully washer of rain like they are predicting. Last year that happened and nothing I had planted sprouted up.