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"Terry Coombs" wrote:

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Terry Coombs wrote:
someday I'll actually get strawberries to grow . This is the 2nd
time I've tried , and I'll admit that WM isn't the best source .
Twice now I've purchased and planted berry starts the sucker roots
they package in bags of 10 with the same results . They apparently
rot in the ground and never come up .
I guess if I really want strawberries I'm going to have to get a
couple of plants and let 'em spread on their own . I'm wondering if
the cold and wet weather we've had is the reason ... both of my
'maters have frost damage , though both seem to be recovering and
putting out new gowth . And the green onions planted the same day
are doing great .

Established strawbs don't do much until the ground warms up after
the last frost. I wouldn't try starting new crowns until then.

D

We've been told numerous time by numerous locals that the last frost
is *never* later than April 15th ... yet it froze/frosted here at
least 3 nights in the last 3 weeks - as the blackened leaves on my
tomatoes can attest and the wife covered them on the
coldest-predicted nights . I noticed today that one guy on the
highway out to our place always has a very nice garden has nothing
green showing yet . It has been unusually cold this spring , been
commented on a lot on rec.birds .

The times they are a changing....

D

It's that damned Global Warming that's causing all this cold weather I
tell ya !!

Ithink it's easier to think of it as being 'climate change'. Here in the
southern hemisphere where I live, we are having unseasonal y warm weather.
By now we've usually had lots of killer frosts and the fires have been lit
and would be a regular feature of life for the next 4 months. So far it's
almost balmy.


That comment was meant to be funny/sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek ... I
admit/agree that the climate is changing , I'm just not sure we humans can
take full responsibility for it .

You mean like acid rain, and the ozone hole?

How about the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre which in 1997, a couple of
estimates put at containing 3 million tons of plastic. That is the best
part of the story, it only gets worse. When it comes to fouling a nest,
we could teach rats a thing or two.

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