- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
No clouds in our sky though.
the phone camera just doesn’t do justice to how clear, pure & perfect the night sky is
the phone camera just doesn’t do justice to how clear, pure & perfect the night sky is
surprising it’s so dry in the spring then ?
that's this coming winter/spring 2021..should the title of this thread not not have been 1976 mk3 ?
2018 was the worse snow on 30+ years here yet the summer the warmest since 1976
Been great moons this time. You know when you can go out and drive posts in the moonlight, it's a good moon. Good tides too, got a good feed of paua and didn't even get wet jocks doing itNo clouds in our sky though.
the phone camera just doesn’t do justice to how clear, pure & perfect the night sky is View attachment 957224
The lexion would lie down in your thick , damp cropsRelax ,its not over till the fat lady sings, or rains in this case !!! Worst case scenario and it doesent and you dont need the combine can you lend it to me ??? Ive always fancied a lightning harvest with a big lexion
Ok, these pics are as follows
fallow country from chickpeas harvested in November, allocated to Durum in June. Biggest problem with chickpeas is the lack of groundcover due to being harvested so close to the ground.
recently harvested sorghum, “normally” it would be probably be fallowed through to another crop in 6 or 12 months time
recently harvested mung beans, which were planted straight into November harvested wheat stubble in January.
as you can see, they all have at least a metre of soil moisture under them, that probe is 1.2 m
the fallow country was always a good bet to have enough moisture under it for winter planting, but as the mungs & sorghum also have full profiles, they will also go straight back into a cool season crop, or “double cropping” as we call it.
The sorghum will have chickpeas planted straight into it in June & the mungs will have a long season winter wheat planted in May. Can’t go too early here as being so low lying we get hammered by late frosts in the spring.
It hasn’t rained this month, no sign of it raining in the short term either, but tbh it doesn’t really worry me if it doesn’t rain till august . . .
We have enough stored moisture in our soil to carry us that far & even if it stays dry all spring, we will still end up with a harvestable crop ( as long as the mice don’t eat it all ).
THATS why we retain all our straw, don’t drive all over the paddocks & don’t go anywhere near it with cultivation equipment or f**k with it.
Keep the straw
Don’t drive it
Don’t dig it up
3 golden rules
We only have about 25 to 30cm of topsoilthe golden rule here is pretty much, if you dont have 75cm - 1metre ( depending on season & crop choice ) of stored moisture, then dont plant a crop.
Simple