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first frost last night
songbird wrote:
started getting the VERY light frost on the lawn this morning; will look at the Tomatos and pole beans later to gauge the effect. This in the hills outside Albany, NY: 1410' elevation. -- Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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first frost last night
On 10/11/2016 8:05 AM, Gary Woods wrote:
songbird wrote: started getting the VERY light frost on the lawn this morning; will look at the Tomatos and pole beans later to gauge the effect. This in the hills outside Albany, NY: 1410' elevation. High temperature in the Houston, TX area today is forecast at 80F. What is frost? BSEG |
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first frost last night
On 10/14/2016 10:43 AM, Derald wrote:
George Shirley wrote: High temperature in the Houston, TX area today is forecast at 80F. Same here. We had a taste of cool weather right after Matt helped drag a front through but predicted high today is near 90° with mid-80s for the next week or so. Nights, though, are 70-ish. Little chance of rain. Confusing as heck to much of the green stuff but I planted collards under the aging okra this morning, anyway. The little dears will just have to tough it out; or not. Late season "provider" green beans and yellow squash are blooming but nothing from the cowpeas or cucumbers yet. Temp here supposed to be about 90F today if the weather heads have it right. Went to the library this morning a little before noon, got home and the sky was dark. A little sprinkle of rain hit us, already dried up as the sun popped up again. We've started putting water on the gardens, fruit trees, and the grass right at dark. No point in wasting the expensive stuff. We have pretty much amended all the raised beds and those in the ground too. Emptied the compost barrel yesterday and the blasted thing broke. I figured it wouldn't last long as the so called "metal" stand was flimsy to start with. Now the plastic barrel will sit on a few bricks and we will just roll it on the ground each time we put something in it. Mostly it is leavings from the garden, yard grass, leaves from the fig and pear trees, stuff from the kitchen, etc. Dog poop gets picked up daily and goes into a bag for the trash can. Pear tree is still blooming, setting fruit, and has leaves,mid-October, pretty much the same with the fig tree. Don't expect to get any fruit from either and, I will soon prune the pear and the kumquat to open them up and get rid of "rain" limbs, those pesky limbs that just decide to grow where you don't want them. I miss the gardens and trees we had in Louisiana, we lived on that 14,000 foot squared lot with several fruit trees and a very nice in ground garden. Several feet of thousands of years of leaves, etc. laying on top of an ancient sand dune. Really good dirt and many truck loads of cow manure went into the garden. Around here they sell cow manure by the small sack full. In Louisiana folks with cows and horses would give you the stuff as long as you shoveled and toted it. |
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