Dust Bowl Depression Days
My part of the world is just a dessicated, cooked wasteland at this time. The grass is mostly brown, even the daily watered garden struggles, the crops are failing and the trees are shedding leaves like in the Fall. We are in a seemingly endless extreme drought and Ag experts say that the corn crop is beyond help from any rain that we might receive.
NWS says we have a 30% chance of rain today. But that's as likely as the any effects from the CME last week. The event is an enormous dud so far. We've had 5 inches of rain so far this growing season where we should have 13 inches by the end of July. Much of the rain has been trace amounts that provide little benefit unlike soaking rains.
A big deer visited a neighbor and our garden Thursday night where he nibbled at a few things and gobbled up 2/3 of our large, green tomatoes. I don't mind a little foraging but the greedy bastard significantly harmed our already marginal gardens. We won't be eating many tomatoes this summer.
It's demoralizing to plant a garden, tend and water it every day and then have little to no development. Radishes, lettuce and onions have produced little edible vegetables. I'm tossing in the towel on them until the Fall. If we don't get any rain and continue with desert like conditions I may be done for the year.
Even the birds are acting odd. They aren't eating seed and aren't hanging about the yard singing as usual the last week or so. Very odd.
It seems like we're back in Dust Bowl Depression days.
NWS says we have a 30% chance of rain today. But that's as likely as the any effects from the CME last week. The event is an enormous dud so far. We've had 5 inches of rain so far this growing season where we should have 13 inches by the end of July. Much of the rain has been trace amounts that provide little benefit unlike soaking rains.
A big deer visited a neighbor and our garden Thursday night where he nibbled at a few things and gobbled up 2/3 of our large, green tomatoes. I don't mind a little foraging but the greedy bastard significantly harmed our already marginal gardens. We won't be eating many tomatoes this summer.
It's demoralizing to plant a garden, tend and water it every day and then have little to no development. Radishes, lettuce and onions have produced little edible vegetables. I'm tossing in the towel on them until the Fall. If we don't get any rain and continue with desert like conditions I may be done for the year.
Even the birds are acting odd. They aren't eating seed and aren't hanging about the yard singing as usual the last week or so. Very odd.
It seems like we're back in Dust Bowl Depression days.
posted by lugh lampfhota at 8:50 AM
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