Re: Rain... again

We're at 79 degrees, 85 percent humidity. Temps predicted to be in low 90s later. Same old, same old. 

On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Donna wrote:
Well that message was Saturdays weather..... sundays was a lot different. It was so humid you could cut it with a knife!..... Last night brought a lot of bad storms around here. Same is predicted for today. At 5:16 in the AM... it 
is 71 with 97 percent humidity.. YUCK!

Donna


----- Original Message ----
From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Sunday, August
5, 2007 10:24:26 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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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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