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"Terry Coombs" wrote: "Farm1" wrote in message ... "Terry Coombs" wrote in message "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... Terry Coombs wrote: "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... 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. -- Remember Rachel Corrie http://www.rachelcorrie.org/ Welcome to the New America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg |
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