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Nashville, TN

We've only had a smiggen of rain in the last 6 weeks (mostly brief thunderstorms/tornadic cells every 7-8 days)... My empty - fertilized & reseeded - pasture should've been over knee-high by now - but it's only 4-6"!!

It's been so dry and unusually hot (90 degrees on Easter!!) That I'm already having to water my front gardens - just to help my 'drought tolerant' Marigolds catch root.

I've bought out a store of Soaker hoses for the Pumpkin/squash patches. I'm fearing a worse drought than last summer!

I'm eyeballing some old cheap hoses I have. All have leaks. Debating on the best way to turn them into much needed soaker hoses - I'm still short on covering all veg gardens. And how long - and how many times per week - should I turn the 'soaker hose irrigation system' on??? I'm placing them right next to the GP/GS seedlings to wear to the vines will grow over the soakers.

4/17/2006 4:34:32 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

too early to make a Summer drought call...way too early

4/17/2006 6:04:25 AM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

We had a dry winter,hosepipe bans already in force in the South East bad news for some veggie growers as most of us are on mains water.

4/17/2006 6:30:05 AM

Ga.

Too early Kyle? We have been on water restrictions for the last 4-5 months.. Finally got a rain shower a week ago,,first rain since November.No rain in sight... So maybe to early for Tenn,,,but not to early to say drought here..Tenn and NC have been hogging all the rain...LOL...
Jeff

4/17/2006 8:33:24 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Jeff want some of the rain Im getting, I cant even get the garden tilled its too wet.

4/17/2006 10:23:21 AM

Sloughhouse, CA

I just looked at Intellicast weather on the computer and looks like the west caoast is clear and sunny for a few days. Thank goodness. Hope you get some rain in the south.

4/17/2006 2:58:34 PM

Utah

well it's snowing here today... again.

4/17/2006 4:26:35 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Selling rain on the West coast, how much "D" do ya got's!

4/17/2006 5:34:58 PM

ordinary,VA

Skid will buy all the rain you willing to sell ..
getting a little rain today just over half inch..
have one well will dig another if need be, good to have friends in the well business..

4/17/2006 5:54:24 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Virginia HUH? Funny thing, I have family as of right now visiting from Virginia, great place that Virginia!

4/17/2006 6:04:11 PM

Nashville, TN

Actually KY is hogging all the rain.... They're just sending brief tornadic dowbursts our way... We've got storm chance the next 3 days - granted we had storm chance 4 days last week - I think 5% of TN actually got a 5-10 minute storm!!

Granted, Weathermen are only accurate 5 minutes before a tornado hits someone... but I guess it's better than they used to be **grin***

My three hay suppliers haven't had enough moisture to grow their fields high enough for harvest. It's been since the '99 drought that they haven't gotten a first cut by end of April. Last year we only got two cuttings (generally get three on a good year). First was OK - second was terrible - no nutrition in it due to no moisture for 3 months.......

Usually, I get a 'gut feeling' and it's in the right ballpark. My 93 year old grandfather (kept a 2 acre garden until 85) was the same way - he can still predict the summer/winter climate in The Bay area with good accuracy.

4/18/2006 9:24:27 AM

ordinary,VA

SKID What part of Virginia?
just send a box or two of rain home with your family will pay you later!!!

4/18/2006 3:37:52 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

D&Me, all over Virginia actually. My wife is from Richmond family was all from that region while growing up. Wife still has two Sister's in the "Blue Ridge Mountains" I couldn't tell you where, but I know they live up there in them there hill's some where's. If ya know what I mean! Her brother still lives in Richmond, parents are on the "Left" coast with us, not in the same house mind you but close enough. Wife graduated from UV with PhD and now is a big time Prof at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I got the smart one! Yall take care now!

4/18/2006 3:53:14 PM

ordinary,VA

The house that T.J. built UV.!!!
so i guess your wife is not a big tech fan? lol.
I live East of Richmond down here on the bay
Gloucester county.
yall come on back home to many "comehere's" living here.
need more home grown folks!!!
best of luck to you this year ,tell your wife go hookies no dont tell her that...lol

4/18/2006 7:56:04 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

No worries D&Me, wife is a Fresno State Bulldog fan now. We love them Dogs! I earned M.S.W. at Fresno State, she converted long ago. Go Dogs!

4/19/2006 4:24:34 PM

Sloughhouse, CA

Now that you wife teaches at Cal-Poly who do you root for?
Once a Mustang always a Mustang. PS. I was married in Clovis.
Go Mustangs.

4/20/2006 12:55:49 AM

Pumpkintown, SC

Clovis? Married? I almost got married at Jim's Place one night. Talk about a hang-over.
Go Dogs!

4/20/2006 3:42:57 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

You can have that Division 1-AA level (Mustangs). I am Division 1-A guy all the way Go Dogs! By the way, CAL Poly is a nerd school, there are no real athletics at that school, no money for it. It all goes to the Engineering Department.

4/20/2006 5:36:32 PM