IronTy Posted Saturday at 02:19 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:19 PM 17 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: It could be worse. He could decide to plant bamboo. The growing season isn't over yet. I hear English ivy is a good ground cover... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted Saturday at 02:23 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:23 PM 1 minute ago, IronTy said: The growing season isn't over yet. I hear English ivy is a good ground cover... I love how it just knows to not climb and suffocate trees. Horrible stuff. Always a battle in my yard, and it’s a small yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted Saturday at 02:47 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:47 PM 18 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: I love how it just knows to not climb and suffocate trees. Horrible stuff. Always a battle in my yard, and it’s a small yard. The honeysuckle is relatively easy to control since it's evergreen and I can spray it in late fall or early spring but the bittersweet is relentless and it seems like new seedlings pop up every day. And then there's the stupid Japanese stiltgrass. I agree, it's all just a thankless battle that never ends. And then there are the deer. They decimated my mountain laurel this winter which means they must've been really desperate. We need a few more severe winters to thin the herd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted Saturday at 03:20 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:20 PM 32 minutes ago, IronTy said: The honeysuckle is relatively easy to control since it's evergreen and I can spray it in late fall or early spring but the bittersweet is relentless and it seems like new seedlings pop up every day. And then there's the stupid Japanese stiltgrass. I agree, it's all just a thankless battle that never ends. And then there are the deer. They decimated my mountain laurel this winter which means they must've been really desperate. We need a few more severe winters to thin the herd. Get a few bars of Irish Spring soap and put out shavings. Deer hate it and won’t go near it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted yesterday at 11:29 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:29 AM 20 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Get a few bars of Irish Spring soap and put out shavings. Deer hate it and won’t go near it. Not sure how humans can stand it either lol. I have been doing this for years and it works. I cut a bar in half, make a hole in it and tie it onto a Shepard's hook so it hangs above my rose bushes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted yesterday at 06:35 PM Share Posted yesterday at 06:35 PM 7 hours ago, CAPE said: Not sure how humans can stand it either lol. I have been doing this for years and it works. I cut a bar in half, make a hole in it and tie it onto a Shepard's hook so it hangs above my rose bushes. What's the effective radius for it? I'd just do it in the winter because deer generally only eat the mountain laurel as a last resort if they're starving which isn't an issue during the growing season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted yesterday at 06:54 PM Share Posted yesterday at 06:54 PM Every time it looks like the dry pattern is about to end it gets turbo charged… Did we swap climates with California? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted yesterday at 07:33 PM Share Posted yesterday at 07:33 PM 37 minutes ago, JenkinsJinkies said: Every time it looks like the dry pattern is about to end it gets turbo charged… Did we swap climates with California? It's sort of like looking for the epic February snow pattern. Whatever pattern persistence we're stuck in is definitely not a big snow or rain storm pattern. Might as well adjust your expectations on rainfall just like we had to do for snowfall. Base case is drought until there's a big atmospheric shakeup at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 6 hours ago, IronTy said: It's sort of like looking for the epic February snow pattern. Whatever pattern persistence we're stuck in is definitely not a big snow or rain storm pattern. Might as well adjust your expectations on rainfall just like we had to do for snowfall. Base case is drought until there's a big atmospheric shakeup at some point. Thing is though epic snow patterns around here involve a bunch of factors to line up just right for us to score mostly because our region is often on the fringe of the temp boundaries. As a result we have to thread the needle or else it's too warm. For the rest of the year that doesn't apply, it should not be this hard for it to rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 4 minutes ago, JenkinsJinkies said: Thing is though epic snow patterns around here involve a bunch of factors to line up just right for us to score mostly because our region is often of the fringe of the temp boundaries. As a result we have to thread the needle or else it's too warm. For the rest of the year that doesn't apply, it should not be this hard for it to rain here. True, but if you look back you notice that we never even had any sort of coastal event that originated in the SE, rain or snow. Been that way for several years. I assume it has something to do with the lack of southern stream moisture. But I'm just an amateur and by no means an expert. We need a pattern like 2018, whatever that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago March was very dry in Augusta with only 39% of normal rainfall. April has been dry with 66% of normal rainfall to date. The Extended GEFS and EURO Weeklies believe that May will continue the dry pattern, whatever that's worth!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 52 minutes ago, stormy said: March was very dry in Augusta with only 39% of normal rainfall. April has been dry with 66% of normal rainfall to date. The Extended GEFS and EURO Weeklies believe that May will continue the dry pattern, whatever that's worth!! Usually when a Niña breaks the dry pattern does to. This time it was injected with steroids instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted 54 minutes ago Share Posted 54 minutes ago 2 hours ago, JenkinsJinkies said: Usually when a Niña breaks the dry pattern does to. This time it was injected with steroids instead. It has indeed. This dry tendency has persisted during Nina and Nino patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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