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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

In Minneapolis/St. Paul it appears that we had above average precipitation up through July and part 
of August, but although total precipitation looks good, it hasn't really rained much for almost 3 
months.  Perhaps some of the potential storms that skirted us provided enough rain for others.

I have been watering the trees and bushes in my yard every couple of weeks and they look fine.  But, 
if I hadn't watered everything would be very dry.

Dan


On 11/30/2011 2:19 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:
> My area (along the WI-IL border Zone 4b) has received several drenching
> rains in November.  Month total is 7.4 inches, so I'm not watering.  Did a
> lot of remedial pruning in early October, though, because my dwarf trees
> went crazy and became standards.
>
> First accumulating snow predicted for Saturday into Sunday.  Finally!
> Doreen Howard


On 11/30/2011 5:53 AM, Matt Demmon wrote:
> I'm not sure what you consider upper Midwest, but the entire state of
> Michigan at least has been plenty wet enough all summer and fall. Just
> got 1.5 inches of rain yesterday and there is a flood advisory. I
> don't have numbers like Jerry does, but I'd guess we're around 20%
> over an average year on water. Luckily, the only time there was too
> too much was in April.
>
> -matt
> z5 se MI
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:28 PM,<Jwlehman@aol.com>  wrote:
> > In a message dated 11/29/2011 10:12:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > nave1@comcast.net writes:
> >
> > > Are you guys in the upper Midwest going to get out and water your orchards
> > > so you don't loose half of your trees this year?
> > >
> > > Just asking...
> > >
> > > Dan
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Our YTD rain fall is nearly 49 inches with another month to go. Normal
> > annual rain fall here is about 42 inches. I just tiled part of my persimmon
> > orchard the first of this month. I checked the output of the 4 inch exit pipe 
> > at
> > noon today and water was running out over 2 inches deep at the end. That is
> > a whole bunch of gallons per hour!!
> >
> > Jerry
> > >
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