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Man wins over beast!
Galen Hekhuis wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:16:58 CST, "Gareee©" wrote: We've still had very little rain here as well.. had a nice shower yesterday for about 4 hours, to that helped. After the harsh last cold snap did a lot of damage to plants and trees around (killing off my damned Japanese maple!) How cold was that? They survive our winters in Nova Scotia. I moved north from the west side of Florida (about 90 mi north of Tampa) up to where I am now by the intersection of I-75 and I-10, in beautiful, historic, northern Florida. I moved from a scrub oak kind of arid geography into a much wetter area by the Suwannee River, but it sure hasn't been wetter this year at all. I watch the radar, and even what little rain there is seems to consistently miss our little corner of the county. You can have some of ours. I live off-grid, and had to start up the generator again tonight. I need sun!!!! I'd say a lot of plant grow is 3-4 week behind their usual timetable, because of this. I've yet to get a tomato from the garden yet.. just strawberries, asparagus, and snap peas. Hear that sound?? It's thousands of tiny little violins :-) (well, it might actually be the locusts...). Up here, even with the greenhouse, it's August before we get tomatoes. My asparagus has just finished (though that's because we went away for a week and it bolted - if we'd kept up with it, it would still be pickable). -- derek - Unless otherwise noted, I speak for myself, not rec.ponds.moderated moderators. |
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Man wins over beast!
"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
We've still had very little rain here as well.. had a nice shower yesterday for about 4 hours, to that helped. After the harsh last cold snap did a lot of damage to plants and trees around (killing off my damned Japanese maple!) How cold was that? They survive our winters in Nova Scotia. I forget honestly, bu tit was late april, and many plants were already trying to take off. We see dead branches on a lot of local trees and stuff in our yard that were doing great the year before.. and it wasn;t one freeze, it was two, about 2 weeks apart in april. The first one killed off all the leaves that were budding off a lot of trees, and then they tried to come back, with 2 weeks of 70 degree weather, and then the second freeze nailed all that new regrowth. Hear that sound?? It's thousands of tiny little violins :-) (well, it might actually be the locusts...). Up here, even with the greenhouse, it's August before we get tomatoes. My asparagus has just finished (though that's because we went away for a week and it bolted - if we'd kept up with it, it would still be pickable). I read if you keep cutting back asparagus, that you'l keep getting edible shoots all season long. It's been working on our 1 3 year plant here, but we have a bunch of 1 year plants that are still too young to harvest from. -- Gareee (Gary Tabar Jr.) |
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