Re: Rain, rain, and basil

Thanks, Bonnie. We are having lots of wonderful rain today, and I am very grateful for it.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@HORT.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:27 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Rain, rain, and basil


I sure hope you are feeling better, Zem.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:45 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, rain, and basil

You and me, too, Kitty. I wonder sometimes if I'm getting more curmudgeonly
or people are just more ridiculous every year. They, and I don't think it's
children, have been blowing things up here since Saturday. My animals no
longer pay any attention to it, but it drives me nuts. My neighbors, who
truly resemble the Jukes and the Kallikaks of sociology fame, are planning a
huge family blow-out complete with much loud talk, yelling and fiareworks.
Oh joy, oh raptaure, I have truly morphed into Weezer of "Steel Magnolias"
fame. Maybe the fact that I've suffered from a horrible summer cold for
over a week now has something to do with my attitude, but I doubt it...
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, rain, and basil


**$%#& fireworks have been going off here for HOURS.  And this is July
THIRD.  The cats are all in and not happy.  Will I ever get to sleep
with this noise tonight?  And how much tomorrow?  Geez I wish it would

rain.

HARD.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, rain, and basil



yep since 4am this morning.... clear for an hour or so, then rain
again... street in front of work was flooded this am, and backyard
had some standing water tonight here.

Can't tell now if that is thunder or
fireworks...probably both.

Alan will get over it, just blame me...

Donna



--- Vera Metzke <vmetzke@gmail.com> wrote:


Rain - you got rain....Just a few sprinkles here!
Now that you have all
been talking herbs...It has been a bad influence.
Went to the area farm
store to pick up a couple of things to find the remains of their
bulk plants were 25 cents!  Picked up Greek Oregano ( origanum
vulgare hirtum) and Garden sage (salvia officinalis) in addition to
a few others.  Spent under $2.  they were in the need help areaSeem
to be doing well at this point.
Thanks for expanding my gardens!  Husband has a diffent opinion but
it has reduced his mowing!

Vera


On 7/3/06, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> been raining here most of the day too.... but no lizards for the
> cat to play with...
>
> Donna
>
> --- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > I grow some sweet basil in the lathhouse, but
mostly
> > Thai or African
> > because they seem to take the heat better and
not
> > bolt as quickly.
> >
> > And it's raining now--Florida rush-hour
shower--that
> > the cats have
> > asked me to stop so they can get back to
terrorizing
> > lizards and such.
> >
> > On Jul 3, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ
95
> > CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >
> > > That can't be good. I hadn't heard about that
one
> > before, hope I don't
> > > get
> > > unlucky with it - I try to grow a lot of sweet
> > basil. I'm not as fond
> > > of the
> > > other types.
> > >
> > > Cyndi
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> > > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > > Sent: 7/3/2006 5:33 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where
> > you're needed
> > >
> > > It may be that you got some infected seed,
since
> > it's the Sweet Basil
> > > that
> > > disappeared.  Even the tested seed isn't 100%
> > safe, I'm told.
> > >
> > > d
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "MICHAEL HABIB" <godihabib@verizon.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:20 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where
> > you're needed
> > >
> > >
> > >> Daryl,
> > >> Thanks for the info. I have Asian basil and
sweet
> > basil in one large
> > > pot.
> > >> The Asian is growing like mad, the sweet
already
> > disappeared. I have
> > > never
> > >> had this problem with sweet basil, I also was
> > late planting this year.
> > >
> > >> Usually I plant at beginning April. I might
have
> > avoided all this by
> > >> planting earlier so the basil would have had
a
> > good root system before
> > > the
> > >> deluge.
> > >> Godi zone 7
> > >> Mt. Vernon, VA
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> > >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > >> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 7:20 AM
> > >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain rain, move to where
> > you're needed
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Oooh, you *are lucky. You must have really
good
> > drainage in your
> > > garden
> > >>> beds.
> > >>>
> > >>> With regard to the basil- if you lose all of
the
> > leaves, check for
> > > wilt.
> > >>> It's a fairly new fungus that's taken out a
lot
> > of fields here,
> > >>> especially in wet spells.
> > >>>
> > >>> Here's a bit from NCSU. "A devastating basil
> > wilt disease caused by a
> > >
> > >>> soilborne pathogenic fungus, Fusarium
oxysporum
> > f. sp. basilicum, was
> > >
> > >>> first discovered in the U.S. in 1991 and
> > identified in N.C. in 1992.
> > >>> Plants infected with this disease usually
grow
> > normally until they
> > > are
> > >>> six to twelve inches tall, then they become
> > stunted and suddenly
> > > wilt.
> > >>> Initial symptoms usually include brown
streaks
> > on the stems,
> > >>> discoloration of the internal stem tissue,
and
> > sudden leaf drop.
> > >>> Interestingly, only sweet basil is affected.
> > Some of the specialty
> > >>> basils, such as lemon basil and purple
basil,
> > show some resistance to
> > > the
> > >>> disease"
> > >>>
> > >>> I gave up growing Basil because of it. I
> > apparently got some infected
> > >
> > >>> seeds and it wrecked the bed that I used for
> > Basil.
> > >>>
> > >>> d
> > >
> > >
> >
>


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