STUPID SW Kansas Weather! Updated 06/18/2020
What a brutal June so far! The average wind speed here in Dodge City for the month of June through the 17th was 18.7 MPH - the second windiest month of record! Along with the wind, the daily high temperature has been from 95-100 every day! This has taken a toll on the giant pumpkin growing. This is on top of the ridiculous start to spring with record cold in parts of May. See the posting from June 1st (you can see that by clicking here ) for more on that. But, there may be a slight ray of hope! First, the two early pumpkins planted on May 7 (just as the really cold was returning), have made progress despite the terrible June growing weather. The growth has been steady, but SLOW! Yesterday morning (June 17), here was the plant started from the 250 pound Wallace seed... The 1257.5 Wallace plant has a REALLY funky stem with weird branching. Instead of round, the stem (even the spits) are flat. I've never seen that. The splits are not really secondary branches eit