Re: Almost spring
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  • Subject: Re: Almost spring
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:05:37 -0600
rosemary water makes an excellent hair rinse for brunettes.  don't know if
that applies in your case or not.

On 2/24/10, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI <
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>
> Oh YUM, that sounds like a fabulous idea!
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of BONNIE_HOLMES
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:10 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Almost spring
>
> Use the branches for shish ka bobs. Good meal for this weekend.
>
> ETN Zone 7
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson"
> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:56:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Almost spring
>
> When it's 100 degrees here in June you guys can tell me all about the
> beautiful flowers you have in your gardens. And in the fall when our
> 50mph winds whip up blinding dust storms, you can tell me about the fall
>
> colors in your neighborhood. I may not want to live with snow but
> believe me, this desert climate is not kind.
> At the moment it is dreary grey here too with the occasional raindrop
> and about 50F, supposed to get a little colder with clouds and showers
> through the weekend.
> I gave husband his chore for the weekend, he is charged with pulling out
>
> the giant rosemary bush in the vegetable garden. We have several others
> in the front so I don't need it for kitchen herbs and it is so big it
> provides a haven for ground squirrels and rabbits underneath it. It has
> irrigation so I could reutilize that space for something else.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Donna
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:17 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Almost spring
>
> Excuse me..... spring? what is that?
>
> Yesterday I woke up to 6" of snow on the ground... today, it was another
>
> inch
> but since some of it melted from the previous day, it had a nice coating
>
> of
> ice under the new snow.....
>
> I have no idea what sunshine looks like.... can't remember a day that
> wasn't
> overcast and cloudy.....
>
> Donna
>
> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Almost spring
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 12:10 PM
>
>
> You're just rubbing salt into wounds, Cyndi.
> After our extremely bitter cold a week ago we had three days
> of unseasonably mild weather - low 30s at night and low 40s
> in the daytime, but still gloomy. Then one day of sunshine, and
> now we have a lovely mix of rain, sleet and snow with temperature
> at 33 degrees. I find it hard to imagine more disagreeable weather.
>
> My seed orders came this week, but some days I wonder if I'll
> ever get to plant them. Saw the first chipmunk yesterday and
> another this morning. They usually stay dormant for a few more
> weeks. They are such a plague, I'm almost tempted to resort to
> the remedy an old lady used to tell me. She used to say, "Just
> get a package of Ex-lax and put it around your garden - you'll
> have no more trouble with them." I could never bring myself to
> do that, but last year they were eating the seeds in the ground
> as fast as I could plant them.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 2/23/2010 11:25:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes:
>
> Despite this morning's frost it is definitely getting to be spring. I
> have quite a few daffodils blooming now, I wish I could remember to pick
>
> some in the morning to take to work, it's so cheery to see them on my
> desk. And the Earlicheer ones smell so good too.
> It wasn't particularly good weather last weekend. My volunteer thing
> cancelled on Saturday due to rain Friday night, and we decided we were
> too wimpy to ride in the wind, but it was good enough to work outside
> for a while. I spent time digging grass out of the front garden beds and
>
> when I got bored with that I pruned back rabbitbrush and salvias.
> Planted some more seeds in the greenhouse too, and I located an ocotillo
>
> I could take some cuttings from. They aren't too common here but I
> figured I would try starting them.
> It rained again Sunday afternoon and the forecast says another front is
> coming in Saturday. Figures it would be the weekend. But if I can't ride
>
> and it isn't actually pouring I will be out in the front garden, I was
> looking at some things I can do even if it's drizzling out. I think I
> could plant some more of the veggie garden too, even though it's a month
>
> till last frost I could take a chance with the chard, cilantro, and
> maybe spinach.
>
> Cyndi
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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