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The smell
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 . |
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