Mysterious Traveler wrote:
On 08/05/2011 07:48 PM, Snag wrote:
Mysterious Traveler wrote:
On 08/05/2011 09:52 AM, Snag wrote:
of freshly picked cantalope is wafting throughout my house .
When I went out to check the garden early this morning , I could
smell the aroma when I was still several feet away . Touched the
stem and it fell off the fruit , so it's sittin' on my kitchen
counter right now . I picked one the other day , but got it just a
tiny bit too early and it wasn't as sweet as I like - the neighbor
down the street got that one . Now if this steenkin' heat wave
would break , maybe my 'maters would start setting fruit again .
Hasn't been a bumper year for them , but there's still hope ! Got
a few on the plants , and some are starting to ripen . Now all I
gotta do is beat the bugs to them !
Just what part of the country are you located in?
You probably couldn't stand some real heat like we
have in West Texas. You probably, at least get rain
once in a while. Without an AC I would have died long
ago. The news said it's the hottest& driest first
seven months of the year since 1890.

I suspect by "maters" you mean tomatoes. The heat is what
seems like the culprit that is keeping mine from producing.
The beets, turnips, cabbage, kohlrabi and many others didn't
have a chance this year. The egg plant look like they're
starting to produce. Zucchini& green beans are doing good.

The only vegetation doing good is mesquite, and the only
animal life(so called) doing good are ants. We don't need
either one of those. If you stand in the wrong spot at night
you find big black ants crawling on you quick. "Deep Woods Off"
sprayed at the entrance of the garage keeps the ants out.
Amdro just makes them dig another entrance somewhere else.

Good luck with the heat& gardening.

--
Desert West Texas
GOOD NIGHT, Mrs. Calabash--wherever you are!

I'm in Memphis Tennessee , and what we lack in temps we make up
for with humidity . We went straight from cool and rainy to hot and
dry , my lettuce never stood a chance . From what I've seen on the
TeeVee news , this has been a hotter than normal summer pretty much
everywhere . This is on the heels of a colder/wetter winter than
normal ... My son suggested I check out the websites about magnetic
polar shifts , but I think a lot of the stuff out there is the
ravings of delusional fanatics . However , there might be some basis
in fact for that theory- it also suggests that the numerous
earthquakes we've seen in the last few years is correlated with the
magnetic shift . And some pretty prestigious groups have indeed been
tracking the shift . Could get to be a hairy situation if some of
the predictors are right ...
Magnetic polar shifts is as good a reason as any I've heard.
It could be a combination of things.

Last night the news said were going to have another "La Nina"
where the equatorial waters will be cooler than normal, meaning
another year of above normal temperatures and less rain. Just
what we need. Personally I think some of the earthquake activity
is due to shifting geologic formations from draining the earth
of oil and gas. By the time humans figure out what is causing all
the problems it will probably be to late. That prediction of the
world ending in 2012 will be proved, one way or the other, soon.

--
I wonder if the Human race will survive long enough, to
get us off this planet, and find another one to destroy?

I dunno if we've ruined this one , but I'm well enough prepared to fight
tooth and nail to keep my family and "stuff" safe ...

--
Snag
Don't ask for details
and I won't have to lie .