Re: question for those used to gardening in heat!

Re > watering ( still by hand, carrying every gallon.
That can be a royal pain evenif it does build upper strength.  We had that
problem with a newly installed daylily bed.  It needed water to get
established - later it could take care of itself - but it was quite distant
from any water source.  I used a flat mesh cart with sides and filled it
with 6 five-gallon buckets.  filled the buckets and my 3gallon watering can
with water and trundled the whole thing down ther, sloshing as I traveled,
but not losing much.Then transferred the water from the buckets to the can
as needed.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] question for those used to gardening in heat!


> I was envying folks in the desert yesterday. Even with dousing with cold
> water, and being practically immersed in it for much of the day
(fertilizing
> a few hundred waterlilies), it was still so humid that there was hardly
any
> evaporative cooling.  No breeze, either.
> And when I got home, the mosquitoes nearly carried me off while I was
> watering ( still by hand, carrying every gallon. The well guy is supposed
to
> come today. (please))
>
> d
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ AFFTC/ITSR" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] question for those used to gardening in heat!
>
>
> > See, another advantage to living in the desert...it's a dry heat! Our
> > daytime highs won't get out of the 90s until September, I expect, but
it's
> > only 92 today and I wouldn't hesitate to take a couple-mile walk right
> now.
> > Nighttime it drops dramatically, down into the low 70s or even 60s. And
no
> > mosquitoes.
> > I'll have to remember all these positive words when I'm out there
weeding
> on
> > a Saturday afternoon. I too know how to turn the hose on over my head.
>
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