HWY 13 NORTH SIDE OF TOWN
Tuesday, 8;00 AM. 44 degrees F, wind NW, variable speed with strong gusts. It is raining hard, with some fog over the Island and the channel. The barometer is steady to down, at 29.68 in. The humidity is 97%. We have .75" of new rain so far and it looks like there will be a lot more. Local streams are running high and there will be some flooding.
This year's Bayfield daffodils were not as spectacular as some other years but still were very nice. I would say that in many locations about forty percent of the bulbs were "blind," having no flower buds. I attribute this to several factors, the most important the deep, late snow which fell and lingered after the daffodil leaves began to appear. A secondary factor is that some of these areas were probably mowed to soon after last year's blooms were over.
Daffodils growing in grass should not be mowed down until the leaves are substantially dried. It is sometimes hard to resist mowing long grass with daffodils in it but the bulbs will deteriorate in a few years and not bloom any longer if mowed early. Daffodil bulbs also need low-nitrogen fertilizer, such as bone meal, applied, and we try to do that every fall on those areas planted by the Chamber of Commerce. We have been using a mixture of bone meal and Milorganite. In short, this year's blooms were "nice, but no cigar." Use the blog search engine to compare with other years.
We are shocked and saddened, along with everyone else, by the devastation caused by the Midwest tornadoes. We feel particularly for the school children who were killed ord inured and their families. However, watching a disaster continually on TV comes close to voyeurism. Instead of just watching, let's support the Red Cross, the Salvation Army or other emergency responders.
We need to take a trip to Spooner, Wisconsin today, and will perhaps see some of the German Road Fire area enroute, We will take photos if we can.
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