Weather Where You Are

[ducks4you]

If you tie your tarps like you do with a canvas tent, your grommets shouldn't tear. Check out my post with the tents we are airing out. We haven't ever ripped a grommet.
https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/ducks-new-ragtag-garden-version-2020.23301/page-8, post #73
Use a rope with 2 holes drilled in the end for the end to be knotted and the other threaded through. You can thread the rope through the grommet and stake out your tarp. As you can see by the tent Next to the Sibley (looks like a teepee) you can tighten up the ropes when necessary.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm talking about tarps more than tents. Two different things. Shade cloth is going to be more like a tarp than a tent.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

@ducks4you thanks for that tip. It made me reconsider the grommet design offered on the tarps I see for sale. The holes work for flat packages, but I bet a quick clamp system like you have shown with the tent guy ropes that is adjustable is easier to deal with.

 

[flowerbug]

raining cats and dogs. i thought the rain was done until later today so i went out earlier and got things watered. heh...

 

[Prairie Rose]

It's about 80, partly cloudy, and downright windy here. No real humidity either...it's been the nicest day we've had in a couple of weeks!

 

[Zeedman]

I was posting about the storm yesterday, but forgot that I already mentioned it in another thread - oops.

Incredibly powerful, for such a small storm. For all that violence, though, very little rain. We were already able to work in the garden today.

Now the forecast today has been revised, to a low of 41 F. overnight. Lows will be in the 40's F. for several days, but at least it will be dry... so no complaints. Further north, though, they might get some frost - pretty late in the year for that.

 

[flowerbug]

I was posting about the storm yesterday, but forgot that I already mentioned it in another thread - oops.

Incredibly powerful, for such a small storm. For all that violence, though, very little rain. We were already able to work in the garden today.

Now the forecast today has been revised, to a low of 41 F. overnight. Lows will be in the 40's F. for several days, but at least it will be dry... so no complaints. Further north, though, they might get some frost - pretty late in the year for that.

it took out the power around our region for a lot of people. we were spared that but a lot of people around us have been waiting for a day or two to get power restored.

 

[digitS']

At sunrise this morning (the earliest of the year at 4:51am DST), the temperature in my garden was 59°f.

After 12 hours of daylight, the temperature in my garden was 49°.

Do you think anything grew out there, today?

Steve, also seeing 1/3rd of an inch of rainfall thru the window

 

[flowerbug]

At sunrise this morning (the earliest of the year at 4:51am DST), the temperature in my garden was 59°f.

After 12 hours of daylight, the temperature in my garden was 49°.

Do you think anything grew out there, today?

Steve, also seeing 1/3rd of an inch of rainfall thru the window

gonna be cold here tonight (was cold last night too). low 40s. i may have already said this. lol i think they had frost up north last night or the night before. now that would be a bummer... but i have seen ice on the shores of Lake Superior on July 4th so ...

glad you picked up some rain there! small miracles appreciated.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Has it not been an oddly cold and long spring? It certainly has here.