From

Location

Message

Date Posted

Port Alberni, BC, Canada

I don't know about the rest of the growers in the Pacific Northwest, but I'm about ready to start building an ark. This is even a worse start to the year than the last year. Normally most amendmends would have been added and tilled in. So far it's been impossible to even consider doing any work in the patch. The long range forecast doesn't look good either. Oh well, such is life on the Pacific coast. Cheers.

3/13/2011 11:20:52 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Guess I'm just used to it after all these years Jake...seems normal to me. I don't even think about tilling in the cover crop till April anyways so it can rain all it wants till then.

It was been pretty wet this year.....rain gauge is always full....

3/14/2011 12:21:17 AM

Puyallup, WA

We had a break in the rain Friday, so I went out in the patch and dug some holes deep into the soil so I could get the surface water to run into the subsoil. I discovered that the water table is so high that there is no place for the water to go! This is not looking good, Jake!

If by first weekend in April, we do not get a five day break.....then I start "sweatin' bullets"!!

3/14/2011 1:43:01 AM

van isle b.c. canada

geez you guys got it rough:o) i,m laughing if i can get my patch tilled by the 1st of may usually .wecome to the pacific north wet :o)

3/14/2011 9:29:31 AM

Johnston, Iowa

Sounds like you guys are dealing with what we experience in the MidWest in 2008 and 2010. Good luck!

3/14/2011 10:42:17 AM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Even here in Idaho, it's very very wet for us. Usually I'm bone dry this time of year. Right now I'm a swamp, and I can't get the sulfur down that I wanted to use.

3/14/2011 11:34:16 AM

2' of snow on the patch here, some rain would be a good thing

3/14/2011 12:32:30 PM

Pemberton, BC

Rain!!! Jake my patch still contains 34 inches of snow!! Let it rain, let it rain!

3/14/2011 1:02:32 PM

Redmond, Washington; U.S.A.

It has rained so much down here that the hillside washed away above us and I can see Noah's Ark. So far the only animal that I can see on it is a squirrel... I have no doubt that we will have better weather this year than last. + I don't till until right before I plant, so I guess thats why i'm not freaked out yet. Lol Good luck this year people!

3/14/2011 5:52:59 PM

(rocky) Bonney Lake Wa.

I dont even want to look when I get home UGGGG!

3/14/2011 6:32:07 PM

Lloydminster/AB

We just had our first day of temps that were above freezing. scientists say we have at least a couple of months of la Nina left but it is becoming weaker. I say good riddance.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf

3/14/2011 11:36:04 PM

Muddy Waters

were usually to wet till May! I guess we should till amendments like sulfur in the fall.

3/15/2011 6:36:26 AM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

I put my waders on to go out to the patch so I could collect a soil sample. Brought my phone with me in case I started getting sucked down. Amazingly, even with all the clay, it wasn't too bad out there. If we could get some sunshine and breezes to dry things up a big, amending and tilling could be a possibility.

3/16/2011 10:42:37 AM

Vancouver Washington

Hmmmmmmm.... The NOAA long-range forecasts for the pacific northwest includes both good and very bad news. So far it predicts that the currrent La Nina event will make for a wetter and colder than usual spring, but that it will dissipate and then the July, August, Sept should be slightly drier than normal. I have a feeling this will be a very tough spring - followed by a pretty nice summer and fall....

We shall see....

3/16/2011 11:04:57 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

NWS, says...we have had more rain in March 11...than in last half of/July, August, September & October '10...what goes around, comes around, I guess!!! Peace, Wayne
PS...Sweet days comin, 70 plus w/ southern winds...and sunshine!!! Can't get better than that!!!

3/17/2011 12:44:46 AM