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What do you have for topsoil back there? That looks as bad as I’ve ever seen in pics from you.

Yore cold, Yore cane, Yore cold

And oh yeah, a nice striped maple with some big ol’ leaves too. Are they self fertile or are a m and f tree needed?

Took a walk out to the stream in the back woods looking for more chestnuts with seeds, but no luck. However, I did find a lot of elm trees up and down the stream. They were in fairly poor condition with tall, lanky boughs and somewhat soggy bark, but some of them had a decent canopy. I assume our seeds tend to fall in May? I may collect some then. Looks more like a slippery elm versus american elm, correct?

Thanks. I did more reading last night. I haven’t noticed a lot of downy mildew here but we certainly get the powdery mildew annually. By August the cuke leaves turn yellow...even with a trellis. Are there any hop varieties that you craft brew guys tend to prefer? Maybe one for aroma and one for bitterness?

Any of you weenies grow your own hops? Any recommendations for cold hardy and disease resistant varieties for up here? I plan on planting them on the west side of my chicken run (south side is grapes) as there will be plenty of nitrogen, organic material, and beneficial fungi leeching into the root systems from there. I see a lot of people growing cascade and centennial. Would a small potted plant or a healthy rhizome transplant easier?

Promote increases in the bat population and other beneficial insects that eat mosquitoes? There's just not enough cases for me to warrant the spraying. You can protect yourself somewhat from them with proper clothing and/or body sprays as well. If you want to personally spray your own yard, go for it. I think the skeeter boom around here is more due to the overall trend for dewy summers and much above normal rainfall. Yeah, I know some of you need rain right now, but region wide it's been a freshet from the skies for the last 20 years. We need a few years like the 60s or 80s with some cracking scorched earth.

They reported snow during that winter so it very well may have been just rain. Saw a few 12-20" totals perusing around the forms and a 21.6" in S. Londonderry.

I’m not a fan of the aerial spraying of anvil 10-10. A few people got EEE...it sucks. But people die in car accidents everyday. People get cancer. People get other ailments...some self inflicted like diet. This stuff is killing more than mosquitoes. It’s probably killing beneficial insects including bees too. Yeah, it has a short half life, but who knows what the long term effects of spraying it everywhere through the air is.

Was checking out the COOP forms from the April 12-13, 1933 event up here. What a doozy. Franklin 35" Newport 31" Wolfeboro 26" Fitzwilliam 24" Hanover 23" Keene 21" Plymouth 20" Glencliff 20" That was a RA to SN blue bomb too. Wish we had the charts.

Looks like MHT had the WNV case with EEE cases in Salem.

Still can't go into the woods up here. Skeeters right into Novie probably.

A little update... Most of us on staff haven't had issues, but John just checked in and said he's had them and he hasn't been able to figure out the problem yet. "We're working on it"

Spores in the mulch?

The bottom of the tree is a little rough looking. Do these look like the start of cankers?

I guess Ill have to catch it in the spring to see if it flowers. I was going to clear a few beeches around it, but it's doing pretty well on its own so I won't go messing with it until I start seeing some signs of cankers.

Black cherry?

Cool stuff here. 1P1 (Plymouth, NH) data by the minute with data history. Wish all METAR sites had this. https://vortex.plymouth.edu/sfc/ply/k1p1.html

OK...I have me some backyard tree news and questions. Idk where to start. First of all, you all probably know how obsessed I’ve been with the american chestnut. Well when ID’ing trees I guess it pays to look up. I went back into the deeper woods near the edge of my property and found this ~30 footer back there. Needless to say I was excited. No sign of nuts though. Anyone have any idea if this looks like it’s close to flowering?

Back on your old phone or is that from a video game? Obviously glad no one was killed though. Lightning be scary.

I’m pretty sure EAB is around here...just not widespread yet. I’ve seen some totally dead ash trees here and in Concord.

RIP BML Down for 3 days now

It probably would've been any other winter, but yeah...97-98.

I have some pygmy bamboo if you want a rhizome. lol That stuff makes an aggressive lush ground cover 6-8” high.

Haven't really decided what I'll do yet. I was letting the websites decide my tire size and it was consistently 255/70R16, but when I went out there I didn't even realize I only had the 15" wheels . So the the 235/75R15 Michelins are only $140/tire versus the $127 Firestones. The 255s were $180 versus $139. So I'll probably go with the best winter all-weather highway tire and not worry about the $50 difference unless I decide the Firestones aren't much different form the Michelins. It's hard to make out much from online reviews.