woah, weather tribulations

Tonio · May 3, 2013

wow, talk about weather craziness this year!!
OUr average is about 67 ish days ad upper 50-low 60's at night. Pending swings to be expected.

Today was 83, and due 90's tomorrow, then on sunday/monday due possible rain.

Is that blessing or curse for some floating fungi/bacteria issues?

What a crazy up/down year thus far

Deborah · May 3, 2013

Yep, it's all so weird. I hate summer so this mini heat wave is not welcome !
Aren't we supposed to be deep into May Gray and June Gloom now?
Fall and winter, come baaaaaaaaaack !!!

Tonio · May 3, 2013

LOL, yes Deb, supposed may gray is pending. But the jet stream is pushing the other direction-mini SOSA(sort of santa ana's)

Its messing with fruit set

Its totally at the wrong time for my toms trying to set fruit with all the blooms

matilda'skid · May 3, 2013

Snow is forecast here and temperatures in 30's. My tomatoes are back in the house. It was in the 80's Wednesday.

Deborah · May 3, 2013

So that's why my tomato flowers aren't making teeny toms.

Redbaron · May 3, 2013

Yeah well I am in Oklahoma and just got ANOTHER frost last night!

For those of you that know Oklahoma, know that we will nearly always hit 100 at least once by June.

A frost in May followed by our typical summers doesn't give you much time to grow much of any tomatoes at all!

I guess it would be too much to hope for a cool summer, but that's the only hope I have left.

rxkeith · May 3, 2013

we had a week of decent weather that shrunk back the snow banks here significantly, but now its back to winter weather. temps in the 20s, snowing again. i am picking up trees, and berry bushes today from the conservation district, and there is no way to plant them.

keith

dustdevil · May 3, 2013

Earlier in the week I had 81F, yesterday(May 2nd) a high in the low 30's and 11 inches of snow. It has been raining here much more than usual the last three weeks with light snow/sleet thrown in as a bonus. The rivers up here are all very high and flooding their banks.

Tonio · May 3, 2013

Was 55F when I got up this morning, and the clouds are starting to burn off as quick as the sun is rising.

dustdevil, thats some drastic changes . Must be that the snow belt moving across the mid west I saw on the news

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Tonio Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 148	woah, weather tribulations wow, talk about weather craziness this year!! OUr average is about 67 ish days ad upper 50-low 60's at night. Pending swings to be expected. Today was 83, and due 90's tomorrow, then on sunday/monday due possible rain. Is that blessing or curse for some floating fungi/bacteria issues? What a crazy up/down year thus far Last edited by Tonio; May 3, 2013 at 01:25 AM.

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Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	Yeah well I am in Oklahoma and just got ANOTHER frost last night! For those of you that know Oklahoma, know that we will nearly always hit 100 at least once by June. A frost in May followed by our typical summers doesn't give you much time to grow much of any tomatoes at all! I guess it would be too much to hope for a cool summer, but that's the only hope I have left. __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture

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Deborah Riding The Crazy Train Again Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: San Marcos, California Posts: 2,562	Yep, it's all so weird. I hate summer so this mini heat wave is not welcome ! Aren't we supposed to be deep into May Gray and June Gloom now? Fall and winter, come baaaaaaaaaack !!!

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matilda'skid Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Missouri Posts: 309	Snow is forecast here and temperatures in 30's. My tomatoes are back in the house. It was in the 80's Wednesday.

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rxkeith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Back in da U.P. Posts: 1,848	we had a week of decent weather that shrunk back the snow banks here significantly, but now its back to winter weather. temps in the 20s, snowing again. i am picking up trees, and berry bushes today from the conservation district, and there is no way to plant them. keith

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dustdevil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI, USA Zone4 Posts: 1,887	Earlier in the week I had 81F, yesterday(May 2nd) a high in the low 30's and 11 inches of snow. It has been raining here much more than usual the last three weeks with light snow/sleet thrown in as a bonus. The rivers up here are all very high and flooding their banks.