Re: crazy weather
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  • Subject: Re: crazy weather
  • From: J* B* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:27:58 -0700
Good to hear from you Auralie.
Our beans are doing well and still blooming. They were spotty germinating
this spring and we planted more. Then the original beans sprouted too. The
rows are pretty crowded and some pole beans ended up in the bush bean rows.
It's like a treasure hunt!
The tomatoes are just coming on. We'll be inundated before long. Last night
after picking beans, I checked the cucumbers. There were 2 or 3 reasonable
sized and 8 or so overgrown ones from 2 plants. Ate one of the biggies for
lunch today and it wasn't bad.
Weather is warmer than yours, cooler than the usual here. May get to 100F
today.Almost that now at 2pm. Usually gets hottest about 4-5pm.
Sorry to hear the Lyme Disease is keeping you from the garden. Enjoy your
wild flowers and ignore the weeds. Good bones do a lot toward beauty in the
garden. I'm sure your perennial plantings still look lovely, weeds and
all.
On Aug 14, 2013 1:06 PM, <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:

> I guess I'm the only hold-out from Facebook, but it still doesn't  quite do
> it for me.
>
> Have the rest of you been having a good summer?  It has been totally  weird
> here.  In the middle of July we had a week of super hot weather - but
> that's
> what you expect in July.  Since then it has been cool - a week that  didn't
> get above 75 and dropped into the 50s at night.  Then it warmed up a  bit,
> but we're back into the cool weather. It is only 72 this afternoon, was  in
> the 50s last night and is predicted to be low 50s tonight.  And this  is
> the
> middle of August.
>
> After an exceptionally floriferous early spring, many things are not
> blooming.
> The only thing that is doing well in my garden is beans.  The tomato
>  plants
> are healthy-looking but one has no fruits, and the others have only two  or
> three.  Squash plants - three different kinds - are lush looking, but  have
> only
> male blossoms.  Not a single female bloom or fruit yet.  I have a  very
> lush
> morning-glory vine that hasn't a single bud.  What's going on?
>
> I haven't been able to keep up with my usual gardening chores, so things
> are
> pretty much of a mess, but at least the wildflowers that have overrun my
> garden
> are colorful.  I have been slowed this summer by a diagnosis of  chronic
> Lyme
> Disease (I have struggled with Lyme for at least 20 years.  At least  now
> they
> admit I have it, which they didn't do for the first five years or so.).That
>  added to
> my 85 years have kept me from doing as much as I should have, but I  keep
> going.
>
> Here's hoping all of you have had good summers so far, even if this
>  climate
> change is messing things up.
>
> Auralie
>
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