Northern weather

[rogruth]

There have been reports of a massive fireball in the eastern sky this AM...people here are in a panic, looking to government officials for an explanation.

What was the gummit officials explanation?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There have been reports of a massive fireball in the eastern sky this AM...people here are in a panic, looking to government officials for an explanation.

What was the gummit officials explanation?

Leftover tacos.....

[healey36]

There have been reports of a massive fireball in the eastern sky this AM...people here are in a panic, looking to government officials for an explanation.

What was the gummit officials explanation?

They appointed a commission to study it...funded with $10 million from the tobacco settlement.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There have been reports of a massive fireball in the eastern sky this AM...people here are in a panic, looking to government officials for an explanation.

What was the gummit officials explanation?

They appointed a commission to study it...funded with $10 million from the tobacco settlement.

That ought to do it.....

[HONDO74]

There have been reports of a massive fireball in the eastern sky this AM...people here are in a panic, looking to government officials for an explanation.

What was the gummit officials explanation?

They appointed a commission to study it...funded with $10 million from the tobacco settlement.

And yet they were all saying at the time of tobacco settlement that it was to save the children.

And now some of those same states are promoting marry-wana for the tax revenue.

[healey36]

According to news reports, the fireball has been confirmed to be a G-type main-sequence star, and that everyone should effing calm down.

The White House immediately denounced it as "fake news".

[healey36]

After nearly two weeks of rain, it's 90+ and drenchingly humid (well, it is August after all)...even the squirrels are knackered:



Just sitting here in the back yard, listening to the tomatoes split.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Just sitting here in the back yard, listening to the tomatoes split.

Yes, I'll have to hit the garden tomorrow and clear out the mess. Peppers were doing quite nicely though. Bet the carrots are rotting.....

[healey36]

Yup, no home-made salsa this year. Can't figure the squash...twenty plants and nary a squash anywhere.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yup, no home-made salsa this year. Can't figure the squash...twenty plants and nary a squash anywhere.

We were drowning in squash and then all the plants just died. Maybe a mercy killing was involved......but I don't know. Next garden over has squash totally out of control on growth and production.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yup, no home-made salsa this year. Can't figure the squash...twenty plants and nary a squash anywhere.

We were drowning in squash and then all the plants just died. Maybe a mercy killing was involved......but I don't know. Next garden over has squash totally out of control on growth and production.

Could it be the soil got starved for certain ingredients that squash need to bear fruit? Have you been planting them in the same spot for years, now?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yup, no home-made salsa this year. Can't figure the squash...twenty plants and nary a squash anywhere.

We were drowning in squash and then all the plants just died. Maybe a mercy killing was involved......but I don't know. Next garden over has squash totally out of control on growth and production.

Could it be the soil got starved for certain ingredients that squash need to bear fruit? Have you been planting them in the same spot for years, now?

Very doubtful; son believes that the squash bugs just got ahead of his applying insecticide. We rotate locations; just put new late tomatoes where we had beans, and cucumbers.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We were drowning in squash and then all the plants just died. Maybe a mercy killing was involved......but I don't know. Next garden over has squash totally out of control on growth and production.

Could it be the soil got starved for certain ingredients that squash need to bear fruit? Have you been planting them in the same spot for years, now?

Very doubtful; son believes that the squash bugs just got ahead of his applying insecticide. We rotate locations; just put new late tomatoes where we had beans, and cucumbers.

I figured you knew all about that but just had to ask on the off-chance I might have been able to have been helpful.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Could it be the soil got starved for certain ingredients that squash need to bear fruit? Have you been planting them in the same spot for years, now?

Very doubtful; son believes that the squash bugs just got ahead of his applying insecticide. We rotate locations; just put new late tomatoes where we had beans, and cucumbers.

I figured you knew all about that but just had to ask on the off-chance I might have been able to have been helpful.

Grandparents had about 1-2 acres in veg garden; used to raise 35-50 bushel of potatoes.....

[healey36]

Yup, no home-made salsa this year. Can't figure the squash...twenty plants and nary a squash anywhere.

We were drowning in squash and then all the plants just died. Maybe a mercy killing was involved......but I don't know. Next garden over has squash totally out of control on growth and production.

The garden didn't get much attention this year. Turned it over in the spring, dumped half a pick-up of composted manure in, forked it, then planted the usual assortment. Went heavier than usual on the squash, perhaps a bad choice this year. Stood back and watched what happened...not much. Tomatoes are scraggly, squash were no-shows, a fair number of peppers, but a ton of beans.

New beds for next year I think...bigger, and raised...easier on the back.