Daily entry, Oct 21, 2019
We received about 3+ inches of rain in the last week - the severe drought is officially over. We are expecting more rain in the next week. This is great for ...
We received about 3+ inches of rain in the last week - the severe drought is officially over. We are expecting more rain in the next week. This is great for ...
Today I read that this will be the dryest September on record for S/SW Virginia - something that has been obvious to us all month (since we have seen virtual...
We are in for more dry weather, it looks like. We started planting spinach and salads, slowly. The focus, however, is on next Spring preparations of soil.
The ground had been parched for months now - we are down a few inches from normal rainfall for this year. Last night we (finally) received about an inch or r...
We had to bush hog one of our fields (about 3-4 acres) in order to be able to see all the rocks in the field (since it became overgrown with grasses and weed...
Yesterday we started on extracting all the rock from the two fields (about 7-8 acres) that we disked last year. They do not call the nearby town Rocky Mount ...
We got some more rain a few days ago. The hay fields are liking the rain, although we will not be getting a cutting this late in the season. The tomatoes and...
Just as soon as I wrote about lack of rain, yesterday we received 3/4s of an inch of rain in a quick moving storm. The sky got dark and cloudy around noon an...
It has been hot and dry for the last month or so, we have not received any significant rainfall. The grass in the hay fields is yellow and dry. Farm tasks ar...