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Memorial Day slowly goes to the Fourth of July, the Fourth speeds into Labor Day, can there be any doubt that a new season will be upon us in a wink.
Just back from the country, it'll be a poor to none apple and grape harvest due to the freeze of a couple of weeks ago.
...but the corn is coming up in fine style.
There's a very old run down barn(but, oh so rustic), smack dab in the middle of a hugh corn field on the Missouri River bottoms that I visit every now and then.
I'm beginning to be able to tell how the spring and summer are progressing by the corn's growth.
A foot tall at Memorial Day, tassel by the Fourth, brown by Labor Day - I'm thinking about the Remington 1894, Blackpowder shells loaded with #7 shot.
It could be to early tho' for this, my tomatoes aren't even in the ground.
The country will do that to you!

Tomatos not in the ground yet? Mine are a foot tall, you'd better get cracking. Beans are up and the asparagus is about done. Sunflowers are also planted for the doves. By the by, do you pronounce them tomatoes with a long A, or "tomah-toes"?

The grape buds are just beginning to swell here.

Georgia is dry,dry, dry and the southern section is burning up! Corn is about dead and i have nice size tomatoes but i am watering them! We need rain! Bobby

It is getting dry here in KY land. But I have the means to irragate about half of my farm and on that side just happens to be the sunflowers. No one can say I do n ot have my sense of what is important.

Back east every farm in my family has an irragation systems on them. Only one did ten years ago. Just too much chance of loosing everything, every year, not to have a system if you can afford one. Heck of a change in the last 40-50 years. One peice of equipment could cost more than the farm cost when the farmer bought the farm. I hope the rain comes soon so the farmers do not have a bad year. Much easier to get permission to hunt in good crop years than bed ones.

I haven't put in a veggie garden in years, but with all the harsh weather through-out the states, I thought I'd better.
Some of the corn crop is still under a foot of water from the recent flooding - don't think it'll make it.
If it ain't one thing, its the other.

Here in Northeast Pa, most of the farmers corn is up, you can see the rows forming. Becasue of some scattered showers here and there the some farmers have already cut rye and orchard grass. Crazy Spring, weather can't make up it's mind, still chilly in mornings (high 40's), the young robins on the window sill need sweathers on.
The purple martins came back early this year, March 27, don't usually come until Aril 14-15. We had some very cold and high winds and it killed a few of the birds. Last years young martins are back now and things look normal.
Onion sets are up to 6", peppers, tomatoes, egg plants, cucumbers, and pumpkins are starting to grow slowly. Weird weather. Wondering if it is becasue we had 70 deg. weather in begining of December and are payng for it now.
Just had a nice rain shower last night, good for the garden and should help the weed and feed on the grass.

We will have 40-45% of our central ND cropland in corn this year....unprecedented. A late season and the deer will be safe and sound in these fields during the hunting season and we could have a greatly reduced harvest. Have 24 of 28 types of veggies in, but my 8 'maters froze last week and I will have to replant. I am an idiot for putting them in so early.....must be succumbing to the global warming buzz.

I have been a farmer for 50 years. Even before our government paid for every disaster that came along. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!