GREEN, GREEN GRASS

frank_f15 · Sep 14, 2004

WELL HERE IT IS , Sept. 14th and the grass is as green as it was in MAY. usually by this time the gras is brown and only the weeds are growing. been very wet all summer. have been trying to get my swale ditch cleaned out , but never dries enough for me to get to it. how are the rest of you guys doing with the rain?

Bird · Sep 14, 2004

Down here in Texas we've had a record cool, rainy summer. I mowed, edged, and trimmed this morning and it's raining like the dickens right now. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

JayC · Sep 14, 2004

Last year at this time I was cutting only half the yard. I wish I could say the same for this year... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

NIXON · Sep 14, 2004

Frank , The summer has been more like a perpetual spring this year . I mow twice a week and it still gets ahead of me at times ! Just hoping it doesn't indicate the kind of winter We'll have. John

Junkman · Sep 14, 2004

Someone just told me this evening that the Farmers Almanac is predicting a colder winter with more snow than last winter for the Northeast. Sure am glad that they don't have much more than an even chance of guessing correctly. I have never believed the Farmers Almanac or palm readers. I sure do hope that they are wrong again as they have been in some past years. For those that believe in the Farmers Almanac, that is fine with me also. I believe in the Easter Bunny, Wiarton Willie, and Punxsutawney Phil. I even know that Big Bird will agree with me. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

ronjhall · Sep 15, 2004

Frank
Similar conditions here in Southeast Michigan.
Lawn needs cutting 2 times a week.

Egon · Sep 15, 2004

On a news broadcast I watched last night people in Las Vegas are removing lawns as they been in drought conditions for six years and are looking at serious water use restrictions.

Egon

DocHeb · Sep 15, 2004

Yeah - imagine that - in the desert it doesn't rain much - who'd of thunk it? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Bird · Sep 15, 2004

Junkman, I don't know how The Old Farmer's Almanac comes up with their predictions, but I always found some interesting reading in them. I also don't know whether planting by the signs of the moon and such things really affect the quality of your garden, but I figured since I had to plant the garden anyway, might as well plant according to their schedule, so I did. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

JayC · Sep 15, 2004

You didn't mention how the garden turned out. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bird · Sep 15, 2004

Jay, I had one of, if not the, best garden in the area. Always had far more than we could use, can, freeze, or give away. Now, whether the timing of the planting had anything to do with that is open to question. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Egon · Sep 15, 2004

Las Vegas gets it water supply from the Colorado river and dam's built on the river. It may be in desert country but the supply comes from elswhere in the high country.

Water just may be the most precious resource we have!

Egon

bczoom · Sep 15, 2004

Here in the Pittsburgh area, we're in our 6th month of April.
I heard it's the 4th wettest year on record here.
Grass is still green (out to mow in an hour). I think I may have put a little too much urea on this spring so that's kept it green and growing as well.

MossRoad · Sep 15, 2004

Have you seen this month's National Geographic?

frank_f15 · Sep 15, 2004

SAME UP HERE IN WESTERN NY. never really dries out, it has not rained for 6 days now, but the ground is so saturated i still have standing water in some spots.

bczoom · Sep 15, 2004

Frank,
I was born and raised right next door to you (Derby/Angola).
The grapes are probably loving it but I know of nobody/nothing else in that area that is. It's been a struggle all year in your area to get the hay in. My aunt lives N. of Buffalo and didn't get her first cutting in until the July 4th weekend.

frank_f15 · Sep 15, 2004

SMALL, SMALL WORLD! ACTUALLY i live in DERBY, BUT OF COURSE I HAVE ONLY BEEN HERE SINCE 1942 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif a lot of the produce is loving the wet summer but the lack of sunshine all summer has adverse affects on somethings. not only has it been one of the wettest summers but also one of the most cloudy. you ever get back up this way give me a shout,

frank_f15 · Sep 15, 2004

yep i know EGON, my son lives in LAS VEGAS AND ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS LIVES IN PHOENIX. they pay so much for water it makes me sick. i will take our rain, and snow and they can have the drought and 110 deg . /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

txdon · Sep 15, 2004

"How are the rest of you guys doing with the rain?" 

It's rained enough to let the cows graze the yard twice this summer. The last couple of summers I just left the brown weeds stay to keep the dust down. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Junkman · Sep 15, 2004

( Jay, I had one of, if not the, best garden in the area. Always had far more than we could use, can, freeze, or give away. Now, whether the timing of the planting had anything to do with that is open to question. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )

My neighbors garden is doing the same and I know that he doesn't read the Farmers Almanac. In fact, he doesn't read much of anything beyond the price of the cereal box at the store. Call me a cynic, but I prefer Junkman /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif