Re: Rain... again

We had rain all early morning then on and off all day and raining again now. During a clear period i dug ourt a bed of tawny daylilies to give to a coworker. Oh wow - was it ever humid! Sweatcity! Started raining again, so I took a drive and delivered them. The rain was welcome. Hope the plants can store up some of the water as it will be in 90s all week. 
30% chance of rain over the next several days.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain... again
well I hope you keep that weather over there! Today was perfect, right about 80, not sunny.... but of course, I can't be outside...sigh. It is supposed to 
be in the 90's next week, but we are also supposed to get rain daily... we
will see.

Donna


----- Original Message ----
From: Cathy Carpenter
<cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007
4:51:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain... again


Only 87? We are in the low to
mid nineties and there are threats of a
triple digit forecast for next
week.... UGH

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Aug 2, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Donna
wrote:


Well it is 87degrees with 51percent humidity and 5 to 10 mph winds
at 6:30ish
tonight... YUCK

They promised me some rain tonight, but now

decided that

isn't going to happen.... sigh.

Garden is frying and it

appears most of my

flowers are not into this weather, but a few are blooming

their

heads off...
like the hibiscus.

Donna


----- Original

Message ----

From: Johnson Cyndi D
Civ 95 CG/SCSRT

<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>

To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent:
Thursday,

August 2, 2007 3:04:16 PM

Subject: RE: [CHAT] Rain... again


Way to


make me jealous! I got brown desert, dirt, and the barest hint of

a cloud

way

way off to the south. It is a pleasant 99F with 11% humidity
and no

wind.

On
the plus side, yesterday we did have clouds, and at least 10


raindrops hit our

windshield on the way into work. Woo-hoo, moisture!
Last

night we blew off

team penning practice (husband is showing signs
of

strain after weeks of

rushing from work to home to horse event three


nights a week) and I started

getting the onions out of the garden.
Should

have grabbed the red ones

earlier, many of them are not in the
best shape.

The yellow ones - Candy - are

looking good, I'll see if I
can't get all

those inside this weekend. Some of

them were under stress
though, they

have those bizarre extra growths.  I have

plenty of
tomatoes to play with

too, I'll make chili sauce and canned tomatoes

since I entered those in the

fair. I'm running a bit late on

getting my
entries done but it's par for

the course this year.  I doubt I will

have
available half of what I

planned to enter in the garden

competition, oh
well.
I might be able

to substitute some tomatoes for the pepper

entries.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----

From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net


[o*@hort.net] On

Behalf Of james singer
Sent:

Thursday,

August 02, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Garden Chat
Subject: [CHAT]

Rain... again


It's
been raining for much of the last 3 days. And NOAA

says we've got a

lot of the
same through next Monday PM. Not easy to tour

the plantation

between
cloudbursts, but I did notice quite a few baby

starfruit this

morning--and I
didn't even know the tree had bloomed.


Pleasant surprise. Unpleasant

realization: we're almost out of mangos,
one

more picking, two at most.


The
orange jasmines--including the one I

nearly killed with the

wheelbarrow full
of softener salt--are in their

third or fourth bloom

cycle. And when the flush
of small, multi-petaled

white flowers is

assaulted by driving rain, it looks
like it snowed in the

front patio.

But snow never smelled this good.

The
Barbados cherry is

in its third bloom cycle, too. It's a mass of

pink and
white flowers. The

first two cycles produced heavy crops of

fruit, but I don't
know if this

one will--the rain may keep the wasps,

bumblebees, and other
pollinators

at home. Usually when it blooms, the

wasps and bumbles get
possessive and

let you know you're not welcome in

the neighborhood until
they've had

their fill. I've had bumblebees,

which show no interest in me when
they're

working on avocado flowers,

dive-bomb me when I go near the Barbados


cherry when it's in bloom.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]


Maximum 100

F [38 C]


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