Happenings

Cherries - nearing end.
Blueberries - slowing down.
Early apples nearly ready.  During June
and July, a lot more apples than normal falling
from the tree.
Fruit sizing nicely even with the hot weather.
Keep up the irrigation.
Cherry tomatoes - ready.
Garlic ready for harvest.

Get ready to plant fall gardens around the
first of August.

Try budding of prune, plum, peach, nectarine
trees just as the summer temps start to go down.

Weather

Rufus at the WxCafe® dishes on the weather for 

the rest of the month. Robin

Friday July 17

Steady pattern with small adjustments in temps and 

then possible showers are on tap for the next couple of weeks.

High pressure ridge now positioned to favor seasonal 

temps - no extreme heat - across the PNW. The key change 

in the steady pattern is progged for late July. By the last 

weekend of the month a cooler, damp system is modeled 

to arrive from the NW.

As for this weekend and early next week, temps will bump 

up 5-10 degrees from what was experienced this past week. 

Not bad. NW breezes to turn back on by next Wed, for a cool 

down ahead of showers. Oregon and ID may stay dry, but a 

bit cooler, when and if the showers arrive in NW WA.

-Rufus

VegNet

VegNet Regional Pest Trends for the Week of July 13th, 2015

Submitted by Jessica Green on Fri, 07/17/2015 - 4:49pm

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Crop status

Cherries crop - ending.
Peaches and nectarines - pretty good but heat is causing
them to ripen fast and not last as long after picking.
Early Gravenstein apples - will be ripe in as early as two weeks.
Plums - seeing some pre-mature drop.
Apples - doing a June drop if too many apples left on a spur.
Pears, Asian pears and apples sizing nicely even with the
hotter weather.  Little to no sun burn.

Raspberries - showing berry white or edge sun burn.
Blueberries - another good year.

Good weather forecast

Monday July 6

A turn in the weather, for the good of all, will take place 

later this week. The record-breaking (for many locations)

 extended heat wave will come to an end as cooler, the marine 

air conditioning returns.

The normal marine air that helps keep the PNW pleasant during 

summer months literally was blocked by a ridge of high pressure.  

 By Thu/Fri, the ridge will yield and allow for cooler air in the form 

of an 'onshore flow' to push inland to cool the entire region down

 to seasonal temperatures.

 By the weekend, temperatures will drop enough to generate quite

 a conversation about how cool it is in comparison to the heat. Plants

 & people will be grateful. The good news is that the cooler, more

 normal PNW pattern for July will hold on through at least July 18 

or 19.  West side, the moisture will mainly manifest as scattered 

mid-level clouds, but a shower may pop up, esp from Eugene south.

General temps will range from the mid 70s to lower 80s in many

 locations, cooler along the coast. Eastern basins likely to be in the 

mid-80 to low 90s. Normal for July.

 -Rufus

Veg Insects

VegNet Regional Pest Trends for the Week of June 29th, 2015

Submitted by Jessica Green on Fri, 07/03/2015 - 11:14am

• VegNet

VegNet is an insect pest monitoring program funded by the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission and managed by the Oregon State University Department of Horticulture. To add your name to this newsletter, please click the ‘subscribe’ button on the homepage. For a review on how to interpret VegNet tables, click here.

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Many thanks to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission, cooperating growers, consultants, and other VegNet subscribers who support and utilize this program.

Happenings

Be sure that all of the tree fruits are thinned.  Look
 for remaining doubles and triples.
Strawberries - some day neutrals and late June bearing.
Blueberries - full swing.  Caneberries - full swing.

Early peaches will be here soon.

Be aware of flea beetle and cucumber beetle populations
 have increased,we usually see this as the grass seed fields
 are being harvested and the critters move to greener areas.

Temps hot with highs in the 95-100 for the week.  Lows
down into the 57-58.

Having been raised in Wenatchee, Washington; there was
 devastating fires to land,homes and several apple facilities. 
Kids playing with fire in very dry grass.  Please be very
careful this time of year.