tomato recap

March 20, 2008

From garden 2008

Nov 1 storm update,,

San Lo went from 10 cfs to 400+. & from 2.5+ feet high to almost 6 feet.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=11160500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060

...and over 5 inches in the gauge since thursday,

first storm

This current storm is the biggest rain of the year so far. May top 4 inches from Oct 30 until Nov 2.

Rain Oct 4-5 was about 1.7 in Ben Lomond.

First Bay Area rains

SAN JOSE RECEIVED A TRACE OF RAIN BREAKING ITS PREVIOUS RECORD
FOR THE DAY OF 0.00 INCHES FROM RECORDS DATING BACK TO 1947 WHILE
SALINAS RECORDED ONE HUNDREDTH OF AN INCH TYING ITS RECORD SET BACK
IN 1973.

Big Sur fires

The tally of the Big Sur fires... the second was sparked by two lightning bolts...

Indians fire (near Arroyo Seco) = 76,554 acres
Basin Complex Fire (Big Sur) = 162,818 acres

That is almost 1/4 million acres! Almost the whole Ventana Wilderness burned!

5,000 to 6,000 bolts

The lightning storm of friday and saturday was unprecedented causing 5-6,000 lightning strikes.

As a result, there are 842 fires burning in the state from Big Sur to Napa to Humboldt to Shasta & Trinity.

A dry spring combined with a lack of marine layer and a High pressure system over Arizona and Nevada has fanned to flames with occasional offshore events, making an early fire season even more dangerous.

The Indians fire is over 57,000 acres and the Summit fire of a month ago flared up again.

Fires and Lightning

The big news in the SC mtns is the third major fire of the season...and its only June. And the lightning we had the day after the solstice, where 40 more fires where started in the county. There are currently 500 fires burning in Northern California. Wow.

june gardening

i planted the sf tomatoes in gopher baskets and made big 15 x 4 gopher proof bed where I'll start moving stuff tomorrow morning. \\ the part i dug up was gopher's main artery system... maybe that will slow it more. its really taking off now. second tomato. some corn is waste high... little squash, and zuchs,,,

planting season

Planting season is well under way in BenLo. I put a few seedings in the ground early to see how they'll fair. The nights might still be a little too cold.

first three eggplant

The varieties Farmers Long, Asian Bride, and Charming all took 10 days. Thats the lower bound of the range. I'm guessing we'll be eating these by the second week of June.

cherokee purple & white wonder

11 days

sun gold

Sungold is the winner at 8 days.

I planted some seeds on Feb 22; sungold emerged March 1.

Late winter update

Late winter update

Quite spectacular weather out here in coastal California. Wildflowers are very soon to boom.

The Hi has been over 60 for 17 of 20 days now. Its been over 66 for 13 of 20.

Hi to date is 74.

Low temp for March = 34 (March 4); last frost.

January wx statement

So the rainest month of the year, January, is over. Here are some of the numbers.

January rainfall 23.8 inches (BL RAWS)

Two three-day totals 10.27 in (1/3-5) and 8.86 in (1/26-28)

Set the min high for the year at 44 (1/29).

Max temp 60.

7 days 32 or < 32 (total for year 19 days).

Boletes started back up.

Total rainy season so far 41.26 inches.

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