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ShadyStump said:
which makes me wonder why The Netherlands isn't more densely forested. Perhaps differences in geography/geology.
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The country is wet and low: Half of the country was a coastal swamp forest. People wanted the land to live, for agriculture etc. and they litterally drained the swamps to create cities, meadows and grow food, making this low part even lower (the city I grew up in is 6 metres below sea level).. Higher areas were naturally supportive of dense beech / oak / birch Pine forests. What did not help is that people wanted boats to occupy new york, tasmania, caribic, indonesia, west africa, ...

NL is basically shaped by human intervention.

Keep in mind.. We are talking a country 1/3 the area of the state of New York, but with roughly the same population:
NL has 1,409 persons per square mile and NYS 428 p/sm

Ohw.. and NL is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world (#1 in USA). So there is a fair bit of farming industry taking up space...
 
ShadyStump said:
Seems your climate almost matches the Pacific Northwest of the States. They say in coastal Washington there's the rainy season, and then two weeks of summer around early July. It's actually home to some of the only temperate rainforest in the world, which makes me wonder why The Netherlands isn't more densely forested. Perhaps differences in geography/geology.

And more rain last night; two rounds of thunderstorms a couple hours apart.
Decreasing chance of precipitation of the weekend, then back to hot and clear.
The Pueblo Chili Festival is coming up soon. I should see about taking the kids.
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Never miss a chili fest! It would be a crime!
 
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Finally normal Summer temps. My postholes might actually dry up. I dig one or part of one, my back strains then before my back is better it's time to cut grass.
Our grass now grows 1 inch overnight, no exaggeration and I have to stop and clean the shoot as the blades are happily hydrated and block it. Every time I mow i have to scrape the deck. Never had to do this unless I wss cutting grass in my neighbors yard that's 2 ft tall.

Been a gorgeous low cloud deck day. Not too bright, kinda like myself.
Thought I wasn't going to have to water today but boy was I wrong.
Temp only reached 78.6F today but the lowest humidity was 72% Still, the cloud cover was a sweet gift.
 
leatherback said:
Same here! In for some hot summer days again.

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Not bad at all!
I've been bothered by the people around here already complaining about the heat, even though we just had the most pleasant early through mid summer this area has ever experienced. Come on, let's just be grateful for the beautiful weather we had, and just learn to be content with normal summer weather for a few weeks. Nobody's forcing you to live in this hot, beautiful desert. Enjoy what you have, you may not have it one day. Besides, it's likely that we're about to have a significant monsoon season later this month. Could end up being one of the wettest years on record, even though we had near zero precipitation up until late May.
 
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Rain has been over for a few days, and likely dry the next week or so. 90sF/30sC all week.

I've been working with my oldest daughter the past 2 days in my father's garden trying to solve the deck growing uneven. Turns out it's that big honey locust pushing an enormous root up under a block that was part of the foundation of the deck, and raised it about 2in/5cm out of the ground. Hot and sweaty work, but at least it's in the shade.
Still need to decide if we can trim that root down without harming the tree too much.
 
ShadyStump said:
Rain has been over for a few days, and likely dry the next week or so. 90sF/30sC all week.

I've been working with my oldest daughter the past 2 days in my father's garden trying to solve the deck growing uneven. Turns out it's that big honey locust pushing an enormous root up under a block that was part of the foundation of the deck, and raised it about 2in/5cm out of the ground. Hot and sweaty work, but at least it's in the shade.
Still need to decide if we can trim that root down without harming the tree too much.
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Sounds like a good idea to make a nice @ShadyStump out of that root.
 
ShadyStump said:
Still need to decide if we can trim that root down without harming the tree too much.
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I hear that people that do bonsai regularly cut off the roots of the tree and these trees lives. Maybe find someone who does bonsai for advice on how to cut the roots, and when?
 
My apprehension comes from it being one of the primary feeders, and not far from the trunk. It's like cutting the nebari right up close.
Also, if this tree dies, it's allot more expensive to deal with.
 
The full moon has risen on the west coast.
Big, bright and beautiful 🌕

Wish I had the proper camera equipment to to take a detailed photo without the glare.
 
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