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10 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

When is proper time to seed in fall?

YMMV but I think I may try winter seeding. I’ll spread some out where I want it right before the first snow that looks like will stick around for awhile. We can easily keep pack or glacier DJFM so I may be able to get away with that method. 

1 hour ago, jbenedet said:

Went to wentworth greenhouse in Rollinsford to pick up some JG Heat and drought mix to reseed the lawn. Found out they carry everything except that. Spoke to them directly about it and they said the brown areas would come back; it’s just stressed. I said no, it’s BARE after thatching. What I need is a mix that won’t get scorched.

I dunno what this buyer is doing but my areas most in need of reseeding are the hottest patches with most direct sun. That also should be the case for most. I get over 8 hours of direct sun in these parts even in August. JG heat and drought is the only seed rated to withstand 100F. People need to realize that in prolonged direct sun, at peak diurnal ISR, unshaded areas in your lawn can get near these temps. That’s what the scorching is telling you…

Also, guy, it’s getting warmer here…
 

Anyway I went to a local competitor and reseeded with what I needed to be ready for next years onslaught of 90+ clear weather days…

Yeah agree. It’s the torch spots that need extra heat/drought resistance. The west side of my house bakes and goes dormant early every season. This year I have lespedeza rapidly spreading through the brown and it’s putting me on tilt. I don’t mind certain “weeds” and regular clover, but this crap chokes everything else out and has woody stems. I may have to try something to target it next spring before it spreads too far. Some of the seed you’re talking about may be an option as well. 

36 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Ooof. Thinking dormancy on 8/24 is brutal. Not sure how you guys deal with that… I have many flowers that just started blooming again with the summer heat stress behind. Moving now to the second peak for garden scapes after summer heat stress and before first frost. The drought though is keeping the water bill up but at least it’s without the high energy bills. 

With how beautiful and AN our falls have been dormancy isn’t on my mind until mid November. 

Most of the trees and natives are done growing and are lignifying. They’re still photosynthesizing and putting that energy into the buds and root growth, but the top growth is about done. The transpiration demands are lessening as well with the lower sun angle and shorter days. That’s really all I’m talking about. 

11 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

So far in August I have had .007" of rain.  In July I had 1.43"  but it was all nickels and dimes with no one shower bringing more than .25".   For June, I had a bit more than 3" but half of that was in the first week of the month.  

Our grass is brown and shrubs are wilting.  Even lilacs.  Lots of early leaf drop too.  I'm glad we went into the summer with the water table being okay but the surface is amazingly dry.  I think about farmers back in the day without deep wells and no way to irrigate crops.  It must have been so scary back then, worrying about having enough food to last the winter.

Yeah it must be rough there with the SW facing hillside. At least dormancy is coming soon.

If that’s October sign me up.

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Hey Ineedsnow is your daddy home

Did the heat go away and leave you all alone…

It’s the cold I desire…

oh oh oh COC Ks on fire….

In June he wakes up with the sheets soaking wet and 2ply TP sticking in between his cheeks

13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Why would anyone take out AC in Augdewst? All that work un and then installing again as it gets hot next month 

Meh. It’s over man. Maybe we get a dewy day or two in September, but the warmth should be manageable. I don’t like it either. I want the dews and rain chances right into Halloween, but this has been one of those 10% chance, odd ball summer stretches that the COC lovers enjoy.

23 minutes ago, kdxken said:

You'll get a little but it won't be long-lived. 

 

It’s over. The really soupy stuff has been shunted south for awhile now. Next 15 days it can’t even escape the gulf coast.

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

They want COC, they’ll get fires.

Yeah give me dews and instability so we can at least pop some convection. This sucks.

This is getting stupid 

Highs today. Congrats Pope on the only 90°. 
 

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

84-88 AWT

WTTTE

89/50 for only a +1 at CON today. Yore August keeps on rolling. 

NNE cooking again. Deep summer day near 90°

45 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Making a run at futility here with only 0.06" for August.  Doesn't look like much more, if any, the rest of the month.

 

Yup

CON still sits at 0.20”…going for the 3rd driest summer month on record.

The forsythia and chestnut out front have shriveling leaves.

Hope so, but I think we’re in for more of the same. Hopefully there’s no early freeze up here this September.

53.0°

16 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

With the relentless heat and dryness in that area, cacti and gila monsters must be prolific. 

Pretty impressive they hit 87° yet pulled off a -3F for the day. Yoregust.

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Karen says come eat at my restaurant.. there’s plenty of seating !

 

You’ll never guess what the internet consensus is for the male equivalent of Karen.

87/44 so far on the day for CON. It’s turning into Peter Sinks there with the lack of rain.

49.8°

We take in Jan

53 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Cracker Barrel is over !! Just like Bud Light. The woke destroy another.

Cant wait for summer to return tomorrow 

You guys are all a bunch of snowflakes. 

LCI 34

@CoastalWx

73.3/37

More dews in the 30s this month than the 70s