IronTy Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2025 at 2:01 PM, nw baltimore wx said: It could be worse. He could decide to plant bamboo. Expand 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 April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2025 at 2:19 PM, IronTy said: The growing season isn't over yet. I hear English ivy is a good ground cover... Expand 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 April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2025 at 2:23 PM, 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. Expand 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 April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/19/2025 at 2:47 PM, 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. Expand 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 April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 4/19/2025 at 3:20 PM, 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. Expand 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 April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 4/20/2025 at 11:29 AM, 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. Expand 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 April 20 Share Posted April 20 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 April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 4/20/2025 at 6:54 PM, JenkinsJinkies said: Every time it looks like the dry pattern is about to end it gets turbo charged… Did we swap climates with California? Expand 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 April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/20/2025 at 7:33 PM, 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. Expand 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/21/2025 at 12:31 AM, 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. Expand 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 April 21 Share Posted April 21 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 April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/21/2025 at 6:21 PM, 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!! Expand 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 April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/21/2025 at 7:15 PM, JenkinsJinkies said: Usually when a Niña breaks the dry pattern does to. This time it was injected with steroids instead. Expand It has indeed. This dry tendency has persisted during Nina and Nino patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Patience! apparently. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 On 4/22/2025 at 11:08 AM, WxUSAF said: Patience! apparently. Expand When it says wetter than normal it’s wrong but when it says drier than normal it’s right… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 On 4/22/2025 at 11:08 AM, WxUSAF said: Patience! apparently. Expand This has a 40% chance of verification...................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted Friday at 10:28 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:28 AM If the next 8 weeks don’t turn this around sharply, it’s gonna be a dust bowl summer . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted Friday at 11:44 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:44 AM Hoping to start planting soon, I checked my garden bed and it is hard as rock and dusty. I'm going to start sprinkling each day so I'm not working with concrete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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