Re: weather

We have some leaves turning color here too. Including a few red ones on the dogwoods. I think the cooler temps after all that heat fooled them. Grapes are ripening on schedule. Will be picking the green seedless in a few weeks. Poured rain Sunday & Monday. Sunny with clouds & 82 F today. Just beautiful, so of course I had to work. On call for tomorrow so maybe I can get a little of the clean up done before the tour. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] weather
It's finally raining here now - has been all night - but just a very gentle 
drizzle.  It hasn't accumulated to as much as an inch, but I'm glad of
the slow rain.  This way it sinks in and doesn't run right off down the
hill.  We needed it badly.  All the overcast and low temps had not
given us any.
 For the past week I've been telling myself it was my imagination,
or a trick of the light, or something, but today I cannot avoid it.  The
dogwood trees are definitely turning red.  We usually expect fall
color to be at its peak Columbus Day weekend - the leaf-peeper
holiday around here. So far it's just the dogwoods, but they are
very definitely red.  I hope it's not the result of the drought, but
mid August is much too early for this.
Auralie


In a message dated 08/20/2007 11:30:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
virtually non stop rain here for the past 2 days. It is pouring now. Flash 
flood warnings.  More rain predicted the next few days.  I hope it lets up
before Friday.  I have to set up both the MG and my own plant sales for
Saturday.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] weather



It is odd weather this year, Auralie, though I'm sure it's not entirely
the fault of global warming. Our temperatures seem about right--high 70s
at night, low 90s during the day with heat indexes around 105. It's the
lack of any significant rain that seems atypical. 5 minute thunder showers 
don't quite do it. It's time for us to plant our fall-winter
gardens--tomatoes, peppers, collards, eggplants, beets, carrots--but
without the rain, I'm reluctant to do it, although I will start tomato and 
pepper seeds for transplanting in the irrigated lathhouse, probably
tomorrow.

On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
Weird weather all over. Drought and heat in some areas, too much rain in 
others.  I shouldn't complain - we have had very little real heat this
summer
-
only a few days over 90 degrees, and though it has been pretty dry, we
have
had just enough rain to keep things alive.  Hovever, what we are having
today
is depressing. Does overcast skies - no rain, just overcast - with 65
degrees
at nearly noon sound like a typical middle-of-August dog days day?  We
have had cool nights - low 50s for a week now, and daytime temps in the
low 70s most days.  Things in my vegetable garden are just not growing.
The latest crop of beans have lots of little ones, but just aren't
getting
biig.
The Kentucky Wonders on the fence that are usually my most reliable
mid-to-late season beans aren't even blooming, though they have reached
the top of the 8-foot fence.  Tomatoes are not settting fruit - too cool
nights, I guess.  Anyway, all this seems very strange, but my son
assures me that it's all due to global warming.
Auralie



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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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