Bright red tomato
tries to hide behind green leaves.
I’ll pluck it for lunch.
This is my first tomato this year; it’s August 2ndr. The vines did go in a bit late because I didn’t want to over tax the house painters. But, August 2nd is still very late. How are other Illinois gardeners’ tomatoes doing?
Farming dichromats
squeeze tomatoes on the vine
before harvest time
The gardens in my area, mid-atlantic, have also been slow and the plants leggy. Cooler and wetter this year than last year which was much hotter and drier. Course I did not check the tomato plants’ rings to compare year to year.
Tomato ripens late
while CO2 grows
Is it forcing or food?
CO2 is high
The tomatoes are happy
And turn red from joy.
COREV,
You might want to deliberately scratch up the soil surface around the plants to speed up drying and thus increase soil temperature.Let the soil around the plants get direct sun too.
Hidden tomato
Blushes behind the green leaves
enjoy it quickly
We’re all soaking wet
Raspberries rot under leaves
Corn is minuscule
Tag guaranteed
scarlet by July end,
bankrupt grower
Not haiku, but consider, anecdoctal. Almost, could grow sweet peppers this year. The problem is that above 90F sweet peppers tend to rot, even hot peppers have problems without water. My pears are getting ripe Aug 1, and leaves are starting to drop, but September is when this usually happpens. This is the best year for sweet peppers for me in about 20 years. Typically, we have gone from 65F to over 90F in about a month in SE USA.
One of the most irritating items that I read in IPCC and other, what I consider alarmist projections, is how living species are going to suffer and go extinct. It is the extinct part. Note that other a few species that have developed, if you find/name them in the last few thousand years, most species are recognized to have developed at least 11K BP. The reason is that the temperature rise is “unprecendented”. No data, just another model guess.
If the temperature stays cool, I wonder if Lucia could show that the claim of species loss by rapid temperature has been falsified? It goes with falsifying that .2C/decade.
Poor undone fruit,
by ripening,
it is done in.
I refrain because
Fetilizer metaphors
struggle to be born
Lucia,
My haiku skills are nul, so I will not even try.
What I can tell you however, is that living in the Pacific NW and having tracked daily temps here for several years now, since October, 2006 we have been on a falling scale anywhere between 2-10 C below norms [goes for all seasons]. Our garden as a whole is some 2 weeks behind schedule with the exception of e.g. peas [which like the cool weather]. Our tomatoes have just [barely] started to show some red and my [favourite] Kung Pao Thai hot peppers, just like last year are only now flowering. Last year they never even set fruit. A good portion of the almond and walnut harvest in CA is gone as is 75% of the fruit harvest in British Columbia’s Okanogan Valley. Call it weather, call it climate, temps are without a doubt down on the West coast.
Tetris,
But the west coast seems to have a lot of Sun (at least that’s what they show us here). We have had nothing but rain since the beginning of the summer. “Unstable weather” they call it, with thunderstorms almost daily. The weather is nice for a couple of hours, and then here come those big clouds again. They could have taped a weather forecast in June, and replayed it every day, and saved a lot of money! Funnily enough, they had predicted a “hot and dry” summer! Surely, this is La Nina, maybe combined with all this PDO shift. At the end of the year, with all the snow we got last winter, surely we will break precipitation records.
I will digress here, but Anthony Watts is discussing CO2 again. The growth rate is becoming really small. I might get back to those data and work on this again. There is a clear correlation with temperature, but it is sometimes clouded by volcanic eruptions. Furthermore, you never have the instantaneous growth rate, because of the seasonal fluctuations. All this makes it really difficult to extract some statistically significant numbers. The most important one is, IMO, the response time. We are told that the response time for CO2 is of the order of 50 years, but I have a lot of trouble with that. I got better results with much shorter lifetimes, more like a couple of years. The carbon cycle seems to react quite fast. What I’d like to estimate is what temperature would give a negative growth rate, and it seems we’re not too far away from that. That’s because the CO2 sink keeps growing (reacting to the higher CO2 concentration), and the temperatures drop at the same time, so the combined effect might very well counterbalance human emissions if there is indeed a prolonged cooling.
Anyway, I’m going kayaking on the Saguenay river for three days, hoping to spot some belugas. Lucia, I promise to work on a nice haiku about it!…
Red and so tasty
My tomatoes destiny be
A wonderful BLT
Not sure if I got the syllables right. Growing weather in NJ seems to be fine,