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I’d just like some rain. I need to plant some fruit trees and would like the sfc soil consistently wet.

35.5° here but a heavy frost on the vehicles and garage roof. Looks like we got lucky.

LEW 29°. Congrats dryslot. Looks like 28/29° at BML and probably 29° at HIE. CON 33°. Estcourt Station wins the non ASOS award with 24°.

37.9°/31°

Already 30F at BML.

June 20s for you. 40.7° here. I usually average about a 5° drop after midnight on rad nights so if we’re 36-37° by then I’ll be worried come morning.

High of 59.5°. Already down to 42.8°/32°. It’s gonna be a chilly one morning to start June. Probably our coldest June 1 since 2009 (33°).

Did you register?

Even 1816 had hot weather.

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My cats and chickens were petrified and hiding.

Neighbors had a huge fireworks show last night and this morning I have a crap ton of debris in my backyard and woods. Yeah, it’s pretty, but why do they allow this crap again?

Anyone have any recommendations on a gas powered brush cutter? I want to wipe out a lot of this buckthorn. Some of it is 1-2” diameter, but I suppose I could lop the biggest ones.

Nice. I did the whole yard last fall with a backpack. Fun stuff.

We wait. They came out of the fridge about 10 days ago.

There’s tulip poplars in VT and MA. I got one from Go Native trees a few years ago and it’s doing well in the back yard. It just needs a stake to straighten it out a bit. I’ll get a pic of it later. If you want to try something from scratch you can try getting seeds from Sheffield seeds and germinating them yourself. I’ve direct seeded some tree seeds from them. I just find it superior to pot growing and then transplanting. I’m trying air pots right now to see if the fibrous root pruning claims are as good as they say they are. edit... there it is. It should be pretty easy to straighten out.

Yeah that was a post from me. They the need FDA/govt okay before they can release them since they are technically GMO...even if it’s only 1 gene altered out of 40k. Rumor is they’re hoping for the green light next spring. I’m on the waiting list to get one. They recommend that you have one growing on your property so that it can pollinate the transgenic tree when it starts producing flowers. That gives the nuts genetic diversity and only half of the nuts will carry the blight resistant gene. Go Native Trees has some for sale right now. Gene and I have gotten chestnut trees from them before. I direct seeded some last year as well and I think those will perform better. https://www.gonativetrees.com/american-chestnut/

Supposedly blue ash has shown the most resistance to EAB, but unfortunately that’s not native to New England. I have a bunch of ash growing here that hasn’t succumbed yet.

And oh yeah, we pawpaw... And the american chestnut tree out in the back woods of my yard is leafing out. If you click and zoom you can see how much skinnier the leaves are compared to the beech tree on the left in the 2nd picture. It’s getting to be that size where the blight should start becoming a problem. The tree is developing some slight furrows near the bottom.

Gonna try the hortimulch from dirt doctors, in CON, on top of my garden beds this year. It’s a blend of aged spruce, fir, and hemlock mulch mixed with compost. After seeing how it looks I may spread it around the shrubs too. Good stuff.

They're coming. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/05/aggressive-lone-star-tick-invades-cny-raising-fears-of-new-diseases.html

From the DOT cam.

OK the black flies are unbearable. So we went from being stuck in the house in Aprilary and Maycember to being stuck in the house because you risk being eaten alive. I'm sure the black flies will let up just in time for 70F dews to keep us inside too.

I do a half yard in my little Ranger. Just make sure it isn't sobbing wet and go slow.