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Eldon (WA) 
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Posted: 08 Oct 2011 at 9:35pm |
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Who has had it? It is closing in on us, a mile or two in every direction has gotten hit it seems....we are still picking green beans, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes. Hopefully it will cloud up tonight cause it is chilly out there! It has been a strange year, never heard of green beans in October before.....
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 08 Oct 2011 at 9:48pm |
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About 3 weeks back we had some spotty frost east of Des Moines. Temps in the upper 80's today for the Madison County Covered Bridge Festival in Winterset Ia. The tractor ride did about 50 miles, almost all of it on gravel. With very little rain since July, to say it was dusty is an under statement. We've had snow showers for Bridge Fest in the past...
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MNLonnie
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Posted: 08 Oct 2011 at 10:09pm |
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It hit 26 degrees 2 days in a row here a couple weeks ago.
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Jeff Z. NY
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Posted: 08 Oct 2011 at 10:23pm |
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Had them here in upstate NY.
Were having Indian Summer now.
Temps in the 70's and 80's.
Some say it's the first 70 degree day after the first frost.
An Indian summer is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the autumn. It refers to a period of considerably above normal temperatures, accompanied by dry and hazy conditions, usually after there has been a killing frost. Depending on latitude and elevation, the phenomenon can occur in the Northern Hemisphere between late September and mid November.
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JohnCO
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 12:02am |
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Had a light frost a couple weeks ago, didn't do much damage. My alfalfa at the Niwot, Co farm got burned a bit Thursday morning, supposed to frost early tomorrow (Sun). Everyone I've talked to is ready for it, tired of harvesting, etc. Got 6/10" of rain today, 3 to 8 inches of snow in the mountains 10 miles west of me. Wolf Creek ski area in SW Colorado opened this weekend with 3 feet of new snow. Guess winter is coming!
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Dave H
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 7:21am |
It has been warm to hot lately in central IL.
But had a killer frost around two weeks ago that got the sweet potatoe vines behind my barn.
Darn good crop on the sweet taders, but invested in a lot of water for them.
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Kurzy
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 7:43am |
Howdy Eldon, About a month ago we had a good solid white morning here in White Sulphur Springs , MT. Yes I thought that was pretty early. Kurzy
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 11:51am |
we had just enough frost to kill the corn, but the sunflowers survived. Darrel
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wkpoor
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 1:22pm |
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Barely got missed by a frost last week. Amazing thing about the garden. Still picking green beans, maters, peppers, lima beans, and Indian corn needs another week or 2.
Soy beans just got brown this week. Corn still looks pretty green. Ears still standing up n most places.
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TimNearFortWorth
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 2:14pm |
No frost, but we received plenty of rain here last night and this morning; needed it bad and although it is too late for this year's hay crop, it will help.
JeffZ,
Remember the "indian summers" well in Central NY having grown up on a dairy in the Mohawk Valley. We would pick whatever was left in the garden (1/2 acre) before the first "killing frost" and put it on the hay wagons. In the hay mow at night and roll them out into sun for ripening during the day.
Always amazed me how it would change to cold overnight at the end of the indian summer; mid 70's to 30's some years, in 24 hours. My dad tells of trying a 3000 series JD demo tractor and was plowing in his tee shirt when my mother went up to tell him of the JFK assassination. That was a late indian summer for sure.
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 5:28pm |
Eldon it's 80* here today and we need rain bad!! So send some my way PLease.
Don
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Dipstick In
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 7:03pm |
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JohnCO I for one sure wouldn't want to go over Wolf Creek Pass with a big truck with any slickery on the ground. That's a goodly ways up or down! Last time i was over it was 7 years ago and they were making the east side into a four lane.
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 7:23pm |
I've heard it said that there can't be an indian until there has been a squaw winter. We've had a few 80+* days this past week and today.
Dusty
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JohnCO
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Posted: 09 Oct 2011 at 11:36pm |
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Dipstick, It seems like working on 160 over Wolf Creek Pass is a perpetual project, there has been some kind of construction on it for the last 30 years it seems. By the way, the highway is clear now.
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 7:56am |
About the earliest frost I remember here in NE-TX hasn't been to long ago. The Green Beans and the Cucumbers got glassy green below the house. Above the house the Peppers and Squash were fine. That was the last Monday in October. It didn't frost again that year until the end of November.
I'm ready for the possibility of a early frost this year with a couple of big rolls of frost blanket. Mainly for the Pepper patch.
Some rain and cool temps around here would be a welcome sight.
Still pickin and shellin peas. Got the Sweet Potatoes dug. Peppers and eggplant are doing very well as is the late planting of Squashes. Butternut Winter Squash has a ways to go.
Dern deer found and wiped out all the fall the green beans just as they were beginning to bloom. Should have known better and not planted them down next to the creek bottom. Figured it safe because they never bothered the summer crop of peas in the same plot. Peas (Southern) are a deers favorite garden vegetable. Kinda like Coons and Sweet Corn. Once they find something they like they they keep comming back. Coyotes cleaned up every windfall apple and pear and any cull watermelons we used to bait the night camera. They are working on reaching up for the low hanging ripe persimmons now. I believe if I put a ladder next to the tree they would use it.
Perimiter field fencing around the place is keeping the ferrel hogs out. It's open season on them varmits by any means available.
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Posted: 10 Oct 2011 at 8:47am |
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Had heavy frost about 3 weeks back with lows in the mid 20's. Had a couple light frosts at the end of August though.
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