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Its definitely better to be a little earlier than later. Couple factors are temps like you said, and also increasing shade as the sun angle lowers. Last year I had to do an emergency seeding of an area like 20 x 20 that was an old garden bed that we were relocating. It was sometime late in mid/late Sept I want to say I did it which is way late in this area, which i knew but tried it anyway. It all came up ok, but never grew much as soil temps got chilly into OCT. The biggest factor in not being totally successful was that area went from getting 10 hours of sun to 2 hours by OCT, so it had shade and soil temps dropping too fast.. If had started in AUG prob no issues. Im starting an overseed right now in a small section to give it time to establish.

Yea, ones of the reasons I got them..the bark already looks pretty interesting right now at the nursery even young.

Ended up picking up 2 of these for $45 each.. 2" diameter trunks...maybe 12-14 ft tall. https://www.pahls.com/market-news/three-flower-maple-a-rare-beauty/

Actually its a horse chestnut. Which is much different I think?

Got it, thanks.

Ok, thanks. Will check out the tag today when I head over.

@dendrite @tamarack A big nursery nearby here is going out of business and they have a decent size chestnut tree at 85% off. I dont have the tag right now to see what type it is or where it comes from, but I was going to maybe buy it today. I know you guys have experience with these on some level. Its $300 plus dollar tree I can get for 45-50$, but dont wont to if there is a high chance of it getting whatever knocked out the chestnuts. Anything I should be looking for specifically with this tree?

@dendrite @tamarack A big nursery nearby here is going out of business and they have a decent size chestnut tree at 85% off. I dont have the tag right now to see what type it is or where it comes from, but I was going to maybe buy it today. I know you guys have experience with these on some level. Its $300 plus dollar tree I can get for 45-50$, but dont wont to if there is a high chance of it getting whatever knocked out the chestnuts. Anything I should be looking for specifically with this tree? Edit--oops,meant to put this in lawn and garden thread.

Just checked out Philly forum. Member reported 6" in 35 minutes?? I didnt think that was possible outside of some tropical mountainous terrain.

Got up to the lake today, nice sunny warm-ish day for swimming and cool comfortable evening to enjoy some adult beverages.

Whitefield NH, which is a rad pit, was 44F last night. Guess your on some type of hill which isnt going to radiate much. 1500' isnt created equal in NNE. Alex at 1500' will radiate like crazy being in an elevated valley, you at 1500' maybe not, guess we will se moving forward.

Your going to need a crash course on the microclimates up there.. Alex is king radiator.

August night of yore where the temps are actually cool. 50s before 10pm..we take. 59F currently.

They haven't been delivering to SVT for that long..maybe less than a year in would say? I actually saw an end case in Shaws that had it on sale few months ago, so not exactly flying off the shelves. I think like you mentioned in another post, maybe my palate has changed, but there are many other IPA/DIPA offerings that I enjoy more that are delivered locally.

I'm in that camp. Storm played best I could asked for here- --2-3" of rain, occasional gust, but almost no damage and all trees are upright and lights still on. Somewhat related, we had power crews from out of state limbing up trees over power lines for like 4-6 weeks this summer throughout whole town, helpfully that helps moving forward.

Winds almost totally calm right now in SVT, Looks like final total is 2.62".

Torrential downpours on an off most of the day here. Some decent gusts from time to time, but nothing crazy. Probably over 2" just eyeballing gauge.

Yea PF, today was a perfect late July day, high of 80 dews around 60 with almost wall to wall sunshine. Warm enough to swim in the sun, but also super comfortable just relaxing in the shade. Low of 56 last night felt nice too.

Exactly what I do. Dump and then just throw some more dirt on top each time

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ortho-Weed-B-Gon-16-oz-Chickweed-Clover-Oxalis-Killer-for-Lawns-Concentrate-0396410/203686814#customer_reviews This is your best bet from big box store stuff. They are hard to eradicate, may take a couple of apps.

My kids have been doing so much swimming this summer, feel like they will become Olympic backstroke medalists...ha. My brother-in-laws parents bought a second (actually third or fourth) house here in town that has the rare VT unicorn--inground pool. We got the Ok to use it whenever we want since the house is empty and they are literally never there. With how warm it's been we have using it 4-5 times per week, been nice with pool temp in upper 70s to 80. Between the lake, river and pool, lots of water activities. I'm not a fan of heat by any means, but the warms waters are nice side effect.

Definitely worth the the southern exposure and warm house to get those views, amazing! But you also had the passive solar in winter i would assume which would be nice. Afternoon shade from trees is huge in keeping house temps down, especially upstairs. My sister in law has a 250 yr old farmhouse with mimimal to no insulation, but they have massive Maples that shade the house from like 1pm on, so it keeps it somewhat bearable. I also rarely get lows above 70..think I had 2 so far. It was 71 last night. So I run window fans most of the time..but I will run AC if lows are upper 60s which brings high dews also if lows are that high. Cool nights in mid 50s to 60 work well like you said cooling house and keeping it cool next day. We also have insulated cellular shades and close them up and all windows shut to keep it cool. But like I mentioned being in full sun, that only buys so much time if temps get to mid 80s.

Yea, dont how Jspin went without AC the last few days /nights. I normally turn them on around 11am and then run them for most of the "hot" part of the day and maybe off for a few hours in evening and then back on for sleeping all night and then off again in the AM at wake up. My house has zero shade this time of year also, so it warms up quicker. Up to over 5" for July precip after the rain this morning, so prob pretty close to average keeping things nice and green. This is my fifth summer here and it's amazing how consistent the precip has been for the most part over the summers months keeping vegetation green. Being well inland and the terrain I would assume helping out.

Just to my north a few spots got near 1.5" as the line came through. Picked up .62" here. 77/72 and soupy.

Lawn here actually looking best it has in a while. Surviving the heatwave so far of 81F and 84F the past 2 days.