On Fri, 20 May 2011 19:36:50 -0400, PhoenixWench
wrote:

On 5/18/2011 6:05 PM, Chris wrote:
On May 16, 7:05 pm, wrote:
On May 16, 6:51 pm, wrote:

A week of temps in the 50s. Rain off and on, and fog most of the time.
My peas, lettuce, and broccoli are loving life out there, but my poor
cuke, tomato, pepper, eggplant, and such seedlings are whining at me
from the window, "We want sun! We want sun!"

Sigh.

You can please some of the garden some of the time, the rest of the
garden some other time, but give up on pleasing all of the garden all
of the time...

Chri

Have a Jimmy Dean breakfast product and maybe Mother Nature will start
to cooperate
I don't know where you are in New York but I spent most of my in the
Binghamton area so I remember your pain. Hang in there, June will be
there before you know it.
MJ

I'm in Rockaway- New York City.

And I swear some of those lettuce plants have doubled in size in the
last 3 days.

Chris
Hi - I'm in the NY Catskills, and haven't seen more than a few fleeting
minutes of sun in so long my joke is that I don't need to wear eyeshadow
- the green mildew is doing the job :-(

I'm glad I didn't waste money and time starting seeds or buying plants
yet - the ground is so consistently soggy the only thing growing is
weeds and fungi :-P

Oh well, we had a wet Spring a couple years ago that abruptly turned
into premature August, so next week I plan to take my wallet and heart
in hand and get some starts - tomatoes, peppers and petunias mostly, and
hope for the best.

The weather map right now looks more like a Nor' Easter than a "normal"
Spring pattern, but that can change - and usually does, so I keep hoping ;-)

The northern catskills are saturated and we had colossal thunderstorms
today. I mowed once last week but it's already grown a foot and now
the ground is much too soft. I have my veggie seeds planted in peat
pots and they are doing well but are indoors... it'll probably be at
least two weeks before the ground dries enough to work, if this rain
ever stops. I even bought some of those plastic sawhorses and half
sheets of plywood so I could put my seedlings out in the sun during
the day so the bunnies can't get them, but there's no sun and they'd
just wash away. At least I don't need to water my new trees. The
geese and ducks are loving it... they are such teases with how they
stand there in the blinding torrent posing like it's a body wash
commercial... I love how the Canada geese stand tall, flex their
wings, and flaunt their huge breasts.