What a long weekend, four days of very strong, 50-60 m.p.h. wind hit our area A.G.A.I.N.!!
This sure has been a hard spring for wind.
My poor garden plants didn’t survive. I tried covering them, but the wind blew off the covers. I guess I will settle for just stuff growing in my yard instead of the garden spot in the field. I will just turn the garden spot into a sweet corn patch and be done, sweet corn is always good.
In spite of the wind driving out all the moisture and crusting the soil all our hard-dent corn is up. Terry is planting pinto beans today.
Planting season is just about over! Spring should be moving into summer soon.
Next it will be time to cut the alfalfa.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Most years we get a dry north wind at least a couple of times during spring planting. This year, though, the weather in Northern California has been like Western Oregon. This week the temperature hasn’t been over 65, it’s been drizzly and overcast. The rice farmers are 3 weeks late with their planting. Everything is OK at our place, though, the sweet corn may be a little late but the spring veggies are having a longer season. I love your blog, it shows people that farming isn’t just a matter of throwing some seeds in the ground.
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The WORST weather is wind. And loooong days of dry wind in the spring when seeds are trying to grow is the worst worst. You’ll just have to keep and eye out to see where those seeds landed. Could make gardening a who new experience. 😉
At least the corn didn’t all sail away. Maybe by the time you get the beans in the windy days will be over. First cutting of alfalfa means summer is on the way. Do you chop it for silage or bail it? And do you bail it in rolls or monster bails or those eighty pound bricks that make farm boys so buff?
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We have had crazy wind too
but I don’t have to worry about planting
hope it turns into a normal summer soon
although…what is normal in Colorado? (o:
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Wind can be so annoying !!! What a pitty it is to see your garden lost. The weather is always a gamble, but I hate it when this happens. But the bright site is your will have less work now and at least there’s still your yard.
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Most all of the field corn is planted in Iowa and soybeans are being planted now with many fields completed. I notice a field of alfalfa down today so haying will start soon.
It has suddenly turned hot here and we have had the winds too. Thanks for the post Linda, and the pics are enjoyable too.
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What a CHALLENGE. I can handle almost any weather except excessive wind. It makes me irritated and nervous. And it’s so terribly drying. Sorry about your plants but glad the corn seems to be making it. Hope the wind comes to an end soon!
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The wind has been hateful here too……not so much in the past few days and at least that gives me hope. Hope it gets calmer for you there.
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We got the winds here, too, Linda. Not sure they got over 40 mph, but it started on Thursday and didn’t ease up much til last night. I’m sorry about your garden-that and farming can be quite a challenge at times, can’t it. My renter has the ground all ready to plant the cotton, he probably will start here in the next couple of days. We are in need of rain again, but then it would mean more sandfighting again! We take God’s weather as it comes, don’t we?
Corn sounds good, I didn’t plant any this year as I won’t be able to fight the worms that invade it this summer.
Blessings! CottonLady
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Hi Linda
The soil looks very dry! I would have thought with all the rain and the irrigation it would have looked on the moist side of things? Obviously those winds that you get, really do take the moisture away.
Yes corn growing for yourself to have is a great idea, but please not with those “unmentionable delicacies” !!! ha ha.
Cheers
Colin (HB)
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Oh my! I’m sorry to hear about the veggie patch. Sweet corn is always good. Maybe we should get together a bunch of corn recipes.
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I’m sorry your weather hasn’t been good to you. The weather is nuts all over the country. We hit 92 degrees today. My poor garden plants were absolutely flat. I watered them all but not sure they will make it either. We are dry as well. Not much rain in sight either.
I hope Mother nature is much better to you in the coming weeks. We all deserve it!!
Take care,
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Oh dear! So sorry your garden was ruined, but glad to read that you can still plant something else. I fear that more of our rainy weather may move your way. Hope it doesn’t cause more problems.
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Wow, Linda, just looking at the pictures everything seems so dry. So sorry about your plants. Here, it’s been unseasonably warm, 2 days in the 90s which is unheard of and very, very dry. Strange weather all the way around. Here’s hoping your weather will return to normal.
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We had a hail storm the other day that tore up some of my plants. I am just going to wait and replant them for the fall garden. Have enough left to keep me busy till then. I still remember your pinto beans and how yummy they were!
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We had 3 days last week in a row of 40mph winds. So wearing on a person, and so hard on the plants. Shredded some of the stuff in my flower beds.
Suzanne
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Hi Linda,
Just catching up. Never a dull moment at your place. Sorry about all the wind. We have had way too much wind here, 50-60 mph winds also, but I don’t have a farm to have to deal with.
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Windy here too, but only about 40 mph, we are protected here in the woods. Sweet corn is good..I cook it and freeze it and we enjoy it all winter:)
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Hi Linda, Like you I am ready for the wind to stop-we’ve had enough lately and although I don’t have the large garden you do it is drying my plants out. I’m ready for some warm spring weather. Today though hubby and I are helping our daughter plant their first crops of corn-should be lots of fun!!!! I know I’ll be sore tomorrow.
Have a great week.
Hugs, Noreen
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As if your job isn’t hard enough without the wind causing havoc. Bad luck about the field garden. Sweet corn sounds good though.
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Sorry that you lost your ‘special’ plants, Linda—but after reading the other posts, you seem to have worked it all out. That much wind is horrible. It’s been a rough spring for you all this year, hasn’t it???? I am so very very sorry.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Ugh. Too much wind. Too much rain. Next we’ll have too much sun. And then maybe it will snow again…….
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