🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 ⛈ The weather thread. The south is waking up and spring work has begun

[50+yeartidefan]

IF the forecast holds true we'll be returning to normal pretty soon. It likely will because it looks normal after these next two days. So, I'll see a few days a week in the 70's, the rest in the 60's, with the low's in the 40's. While it's been cold I've only had to put a jacket on once: raining that day.

Yeah. We have no freezing weather forcasted for next 2 weeks. Yea!

 

[rick4bama]

Yesterday I was heater up the house! Today I have the ceiling fan on.

 

[Krimson]

Yesterday I was heater up the house! Today I have the ceiling fan on.

Winter in the south

 

[TerryP]

Winter in the south

Yeah, okay. I saw 76 yesterday. All I heard yesterday was "it's going to rain Wednesday." If I heard it once...

Man, busted my ass yesterday getting spring "outdoor" work done and I'm feeling it this morning. And wouldn't ya know...just glanced at the weather forecast for today.

No rain forecasted.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Yeah, okay. I saw 76 yesterday. All I heard yesterday was "it's going to rain Wednesday." If I heard it once...

Man, busted my ass yesterday getting spring "outdoor" work done and I'm feeling it this morning. And wouldn't ya know...just glanced at the weather forecast for today.

No rain forecasted.

The absolute awful part about our "spring in winter"..........sit around dec and jan and part of feb. Turns suedo-spring...o hell yeah...gotta do this and that............and all day........
And have the soreness on top of soreness ...that..is not cured...regardless of ibuprofen and budlights....

I got em to...yesterday.....today.
Share the pain
.

 

[TerryP]

and I'm feeling it this morning.

Share the pain

It's not all bad. Feeling it includes, "that looks good."

Side note: Looked at pre-em for the turf this morning and it's dropped about $10 bucks since my last purchase. If it's cheaper this winter the fertilizers should be this spring and summer.

 

[TerryP]

I just caught a bit of a report from NYC talking about the storm hitting right now.

I watched the 'shit talk' start yesterday when Mandami announced they needed people to shovel the snow. The jokes based on it requiring an ID to shovel snow, but not to vote.

There's a bigger joke here. It's three dollars an hour over minimum wage (as of 1/1 it was raised to $17 an hour.) So, $20 an hour to shovel snow that the city didn't clean up from the last storm...in a city where travel has been banned unless its essential.

Desperate times, desperate measures. But damn. I'd have to be pretty damned desolute to spend my morning shoveling snow in NYC at $20 an hour. (I do wonder if they'll allow people to use their own gas-powered snow blowers.)

 

[64Tide]

“Socialism only works in 2 places, Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it”
Ronald Reagan

 

[TerryP]

This isn't exactly true.

I took a ride this morning around 4'ish and the fog was as dense as wind driven smoke coming from a fire pit. You could see it within a few feet: thick.

But. This is also the time of the year I love! It means spring is here; summer around the corner. I mentioned to Mike I saw the first bee of the season a few weeks ago. Lizards are out in droves. All that still pales in comparison to be able to smell the fog; like salt water in the air.

In my area the visibility was around 200' or so. In other words, I could hit a gap wedge farther than I could see.

 

[TerryP]

A half of an hour ago I wrote that after walking down the street a bit and seeing the farm house. I thought things were clearing up. I can't see it now, much less that intersection. Wild.

 

[TerryP]

Do you go outside and exhale to see how cold it might be...thinking, "okay, it's above 45 when you don't see your breath?

 

[TerryP]

I was out for a bit late yesterday afternoon. We had one of those "spring burst" come through dropping the temp, adding a nice breeze to the evening. As you may suspect, I took a ride.

The rain puddles looked like they had been topped with Tumeric. ...might be a big pollen week.

 

[rick4bama]

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Today is one of my least favorite days of the year... mowing season begins.

At least it's cooled off some, but that's about the only positive.

 

[Rsedge72]

Today is one of my least favorite days of the year... mowing season begins.

At least it's cooled off some, but that's about the only positive.

Started mine last weekend.
This weekend will be removing old mulch and placing new mulvh

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Started mine last weekend.
This weekend will be removing old mulch and placing new mulvh

I'm gonna try and do that next week when I get back in town. But I an't removing any, I'll just throw new on top of old. Might do some pinestraw in some areas. And I've got to figure out what fertilizer to use in the front and back... that stuff is like a foreign language to me. I hate it all.

 

[Rsedge72]

I'm gonna try and do that next week when I get back in town. But I an't removing any, I'll just throw new on top of old. Might do some pinestraw in some areas. And I've got to figure out what fertilizer to use in the front and back... that stuff is like a foreign language to me. I hate it all.

, I hate it all too!!!
Yeah the last 2 years I’ve covered the old, now it’s got to be removed and replaced.

 

[TerryP]

I'm gonna try and do that next week when I get back in town. But I an't removing any, I'll just throw new on top of old. Might do some pinestraw in some areas. And I've got to figure out what fertilizer to use in the front and back... that stuff is like a foreign language to me. I hate it all.

Three numbers. The larger the first one the greener...and the more it grows. Middle is more geared towards the root system. Last number is like a mult-vitamin can fight off a cold: stress resistance, it's a "stronger" plant (IE: not easily kicked up.)

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Three numbers. The larger the first one the greener...and the more it grows. Middle is more geared towards the root system. Last number is like a mult-vitamin can fight off a cold: stress resistance, it's a "stronger" plant (IE: not easily kicked up.)

That right there made more sense than anything I've read or seen on YT videos on the subject. WHICH IS A LOT. Everyone just assumes you know what the numbers mean.

The funny part is, I've got a garage full of some different stuff I've bought over the last 2-3 years but balked at applying. Some of it I know is just stuff that give nutrients to the soil. And I need that. But I also need about 10 different kinds of weeds to vanish without making the dog vanish with them.

 

[TerryP]

But I also need about 10 different kinds of weeds to vanish without making the dog vanish with them.

Where are you again?

This time of the year you should see two kinds; poa annua is one you can't kill. It's a type of blue grass with small white seed heads. The heat will kill it soon. The rest of them should be broadleaf weeds. So, look for that, broad leaf weed control. It'll have pictures on it of dandelions and shit like that. It's good for now...loses it's punch when you get in the mid 80's and higher.

It's a three way mix. So, if you look at the chemicals you'll see three. Look for 2,4 DA. (long word then acid.) Dicamba. And MCPA (long as name...look for the letters.)

Nitrogen (first number) needs warm soil to break down correctly...needs to be high 70's, low 80's for awhile to warm up: just like water temps.