Re: Blessed Rain!

Say Good Night Irene

-- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
Looks like our only hope for any significant rain is in the 
soon-to-be-named hurricane Irene. Not exactly looking forward to it, 
but what are my options?


On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:

> Much of ours probably ran off, too, but as we are on a slope, and the
> perennial beds and vegetables are downhill, maybe they benefitted...
> total was 1.35 inches in my rain gauge.
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Donna wrote:
>
>> We got some rain this morning, hard hitting storm, lightening,
>> thunder, not
>> very good for the plants or ground as it all ran off.
>>
>> Been watering all week, but don't think I am winning the battle here.
>>
>> Donna
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>> Behalf Of Cathy Carpenter
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:53 PM
>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>> Subject: [CHAT] Blessed Rain!
>>>
>>> Has been raining here for the past 30+ minutes. Probably coming down
>>> too hard to do anything but run off, but at this point, I'll take
>>> anything.  Will let you know what the rain gauge says tomorrow. (This
>>> morning the drought in the midwest made the front page of the Wall
>>> Street Journal.) At least I will probably get a one week respite from
>>> hose hauling!
>>>
>>>
>>> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>>>
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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