bako00 said: I didn't want to hijack the "It's Hot" thread but was curious as to how far behind you guys are for rainfall. Here in TX we've hardly seen rain all year. Local news said that Houston (at IAH on the North side) is 16" below normal rainfall. I met with several other supers from the Austin and San Antonio areas and they are worse off than me with their rigid watering restrictions and reliance on aquifer water. As much as I cuss the quality of my effluent, its like solid gold at the moment.
Here in Rockport, three measurable rainfalls this year.
Jan 9th @ .88"
Jan 17th @ 3.3"
May 12th @ 2.43
It's not often I wish for a Hurricane, but I'm almost to that point. I'd take a tropical anything to break up this dry High Pressure stalled over us.
Hello My Texas Brother!!! I'm at the top of the panhandle....Right on top of the plains...nothing to stop the WIND...That's why they build wind generators here:) I've had 2" of documented Precip since Oct of 2011.... It literally has been HELL.....slow spring transition for aerification....then we suffered winds "sustained" of 40mph with gusts up tp 60mph.....with up to 105 degrees. I have never been thru anything like this in all my days.... we are surviving though, rather well too. I'm City here....My water is underground wells,pumped into "2" 500k storage tanks...which keeps it a cool 65 degrees....over 45 days 100 plus.....we went days where the wind blew day and night.....Hand watered till we were blue in the face.....Thank God For a product called "Oars" Made by "Aqua-Aid"...Talk about acclamation....I'm sand greens on the front nine"Penncross" and clay on the Back nine "Seaside".....We were 107 last wk for a high,and didn't have to syringe. Our drought limited me on water....only 300k/day, so the front nine frwy's Rhy are DEAD....I have seed held for me at our local chemical dealer ready for Sept. after I get married on the 10th of Sept. and a wk stay in Hawii for our honey moon. Just a good thing I have a lot of energy or I don't know what I would do....Greens,Tee's and Frwy's are the priority. Got a great compliment this morning from a gentleman fron the San Antonio area on our greens...He say's he pays up to 100$ for a round of golf there, and My greens are far superior....But we work insanely hard hear and go the extra mile's so to speak...and I'm proud of it. I will most probably collapse after the first freeze!!