Re: Windy weekend
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  • Subject: Re: Windy weekend
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:21:27 -0700
Doubtful, but try it... could be interesting.
In Florida, the summer shut down was associated with nighttime temps [above 50-something, as I recall] more than daytime.
On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/ SCOSI wrote: 


In my garden tomatoes shut down fruit production once we get into real
summer (days over 95F) and don't start setting again until it cools
down. Eggplants keep on going as do peppers.
I've wondered if I would get more tomatoes if I set up shade cloth over the tomato plants, maybe some kind of canopy so they'd be shaded in the 
afternoon.

Cyndi


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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:38 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Windy weekend

Potato's a relative, too, and as a native of the Andes, will likely
tolerate more cold than and of the other Solanums. But more to the
point, perhaps, there's also a Solanum that's a tropical fruit [I
forget the name], which doesn't grow very well much north of Key West.
The fruit occasionally shows up in upscale groceries; egg-shaped and
sized, yellow-green, sweet, little flavor, usually over priced.

On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:37 AM, BONNIE_HOLMES wrote:


Eggplant is so similar to tomato; seems they would both like the
same conditions. Comments from anyone?

Bonnie
ETN Zone 7

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson"

<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil



To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 12:39:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Windy weekend

I should go out there with my thermometer and see what I get, I've
never
looked before. I am usually trying to push the season because we will
start getting above 90F by mid-June. A lot of my vegetable crops
have a
really short window between the time they set fruit until it's too hot 
to pollinate. Melons, peppers, squash do fine in the heat but the
beans,
tomatoes, and corn have to be ready to start flowering by mid-May.
And I
never plan on having lettuce, spinach or peas past May.
Too bad we don't like okra. That and eggplant do pretty well in high
heat. I like eggplant in limited quantities but husband won't eat it
at
all.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of BONNIE_HOLMES
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:44 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Windy weekend

I always wait until soil temperatures are 50B0+ before planting
outside.
Have
better crops and healthier plants than when early planting.

Bonnie
ETN Zone 7

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson"
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:38:50 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [CHAT] Windy weekend

So once again, my little bit of California had decent weather most of
the work week which degraded into windy and cold for the weekend.
Argh.
I did plant some tomatoes, they are getting big enough I don't want to hold them in the greenhouse much longer. Figured with enough mulch and 
the wall-o-water protectors it would be okay as we are probably not
going to get more frost. So far so good although I didn't have enough
protectors. I swear I ordered more this winter but maybe I dreamed it. 
Anyway there remains in the greenhouse six plants plus a few spares,
and
the peppers and the ornamentals are still in there as well. I moved
the
big pots out to the patio but I didn't realize how much the geraniums
had grown over the winter. I used a few words trying to maneuver them
out the door without breaking too much off. Then after I had wrestled
the first one out and finally got it positioned I looked down and
there
was a black widow spider the size of a half-dollar crawling out of the 
pot!
I bought a flat of gazania for the area I cleared out front. It's
never
been my favorite plant but it's tough and drought tolerant, and with a 
little water it blooms all summer, those are good qualities. It just
looks sort of untidy to me, but maybe that's because I usually see it
along the freeways and in parking lots. If I hate it I can rip it
out. I
am still trying to come up with stuff that will work in that half-
shady
but dry area. Fine Gardening had a couple pages of suggestions in
their
last issue and I'm trying to decide what to get.
What did you do over the weekend?

Cyndi

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