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Grasshopper · 01-08-2009, 03:39 PM posted to rec.gardens

"Frank" wrote in message
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Bill who putters wrote:
In article ,
Frank wrote:

Every Man wrote:
Very strange.

I'm in eastern Virginia -- Northumberland County, along the Potomac
River.

Last year as we were building our house we planted a dozen or so
tomato plants along the back of the lot and harvested tomatoes all
summer and into the fall.

This year, I have 26 plants, all heirloom varieties. They are in
raised beds that are filled with half-and-half compost and topsoil.

I prune my plants so there are 3-4 main stems. I have lots of
foilage, healthy plants, no pests, and lots of green tomatoes. However
-- only two of my plants are ripening. I have been picking an
occasional ripe tomato from these two plants for 3 weeks; the rest of
the plants show no sign of ripening although they are loaded with
tomatoes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
Slow here too in northern DE. I blame the weather as it's been cooler
and rainier than normal.

http://www.john-daly.com/stations/st...rica%20(excl.%
20Arctic

What the stations worth a look.

It's a small world after all.

Bill

As a global warming skeptic I got on the Heartland Institutes mailing list
and have publication of their study of the temperature measuring stations
in the US. This is part of it:

http://www.surfacestations.org/

There are over 1,200 monitoring stations in the US and so far the group
has looked at 850 of them and found that 89% fail to meet the National
Weather Services site requirements that they must be 30 meters or more
away from an artificial heating or reflecting source.

Satellite data is more reliable:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/head...d06oct97_1.htm

"Unlike the surface-based temperatures, global temperature measurements of
the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive
warming trend over the past two decades. The slight trend that is in the
data actually appears to be downward. The largest fluctuations in the
satellite temperature data are not from any man-made activity, but from
natural phenomena such as large volcanic eruptions from Mt. Pinatubo, and
from El Niño. So the programs which model global warming in a computer say
the temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere should be going up
markedly, but actual measurements of the temperature of the lower
atmosphere reveal no such pronounced activity."

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/1997.html

--
Dave