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Bamboo in the background shooting for the moon. That’s the phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘spectabilis’. To the left is the phyllostachys nuda which is a little shorter, but upsized well from last year. The phyllostachys parvifolia isn’t in the image. It’s later shooting, but is putting out some huge shoots…should be some 15 footers this year. Spectabilis Parvifolia…these shoots frequently come out at an angle which is annoying so I wire tie them to straighten them out. It’s worth the effort because the culms get so tall and wide. The chickens are doing a pretty good job of chewing away at any rhizomes or shoots that try to grow outside of their cages although my phyllostachys atrovaginata (incense bamboo) has been annoyingly aggressive. It’s been spreading more “out” than “up” and I had to dig up a bunch of spreading rhizomes from them. I may completely pull those out come fall and plant a cold hardy banana (musa basjoo) in the spring or some kind of dwarf deciduous fruit tree that I can keep pruning back to provide shade in the run (and eventually fruit).

And oh yeah…**** chipmunks.

Yeah I’m seeing really good leaps with my planted chestnuts this year. It’s been sleep, creep, leap for them and all of my trees too. My exception may be my hickories, but those are really slow growing the first few years. The chestnuts I planted directly from seed experience none of that though. They put that tap root right down and put on about 6-12” of growth year 1 and then take off year 2. So direct seeding is definitely the way to go with nut trees if possible. I think after next year those trees will already be caught up to the size of my potted ones that were a couple years old when I planted them the year before I direct seeded.

Wreckin up the lawn thread with long grass and letting clover go to seed.

Is DIT posting somewhere with MetHerb now?

I'd honestly like to see an old school COC summer like the 60s and 70s had...just to know it can happen again. I'm afraid those days are gone though. Mid/upper 40s in July are probably the best we can do up here...excluding the NNE rad pits.

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You mean new growth? It should have put out quite a bit by now. Did you plant it last year? Was it potted or bare root? If it was planted before last year, did you fertilize? With most of my potted trees…year 1 I hope they survive, year 2 they start to get their root footing, and year 3 they start to take off with their top growth.

I get them during summer on all of my red maples. It’s some kind of fungus. It doesn’t hurt the tree…just brown spots on the leaves. I think it’s called maple leaf tar spot.

Breezy too. Love it.

It’s a little shallow initially…they may have been indicating it getting hung up a bit in the high terrain, but you can clearly see it’s moving on vis.

84/58 now behind the front. Getting a little downslope heating initially with the wind shift as the CAA lags a bit.

FSO looks like an outlier, but dry air advection nonetheless.

Front is through at home with the dews starting to drop. 82/66

Or the 1911 heat wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint–Worcester_tornado_outbreak_sequence

Thankfully the wife's grandparents survived that.

Whoosh

66.7° A much needed 0.31” rain…not a lot, but it gets us by for a little bit. Good sleeping last night with the rain and window fans.

Little mesolow coming through.

NOWdata has BDL 19, BOS 13, PVD 10, ORH 3

Must pray harder.

Vaporized like snow pack on Christmas eve.

It got a lot worse and I think it’s fire blight. This is an empire which is supposed to have some resistance to that. Oops. It seems to be entering in via the flower blossoms and wiping out the tree from the new growth down to the branches. I tried pruning back all infected areas the best I could and used a clorox wipe to clean my pruners before each cut. If it does, it dies. The next attempt will be an enterprise apple tree to be my honeycrisp pollinator. Those are supposed to be very disease resistant…especially to fire blight. My honeycrisp looks fine though.