Re: First Zucchini!

Everytime I watch the weather news, I think of you who have suffered
through the flooding...and a 500-year flood in Iowa...that is terrible.  I
have a sister who lives in Iowa...she and husband were ok this weekend but
were planning to move.  I need to call her to find out if their new place
is above water.


> [Original Message]
> From: Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 6/17/2008 10:36:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] First Zucchini!
>
> You're so lucky Cyndi......for the second year in a row now...it has been
too
> wet to plant anything like that where I live.  They all end up ROTTING
from
> the rain and moisture.  Even in raised beds and containers that
drain.....none
> of mine made it.  I found water damage in my house last night.  My bedroom
> carpet was WET from all the rain we had the night before...gonna have to
get
> somebody out to clean it and do some repair.  Great.  I'm so sick of rain.
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> To:
> gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:18:35 AM
> Subject: Re:
> [CHAT] First Zucchini!
>
> Feel free to drop a bag of zucchinis on my desk
> anytime!
>   
>   LOL!  too bad you don't live close.
>   
>   Donna
>   
>
> "Johnson,
> Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>   I
> picked my first zucchinis this weekend. Ah, these few glorious days
> when there
> are just enough zucchini! Soon I'll be tiptoeing around
> work, leaving them in
> break rooms and dropping bags on people's desks.
>
> I pulled out the dead pea
> plants and rearranged the hose to give more
> water for the cucumbers I had in
> that same bed. We'll see how they do,
> that "leaky hose" is pretty old and
> isn't leaking very well. I might
> have to buy a new one. I weeded the bed with
> the chile peppers, they're
> looking pretty good although I am not positive I
> still have the habanero
> plants, seems like there are more gaps than I
> remember. Tomato plants
> have little tomatoes on them, and the beans are
> flowering - hopefully it
> won't get too hot before we get some beans. I have
> volunteer basil in
> the bean patch too, first time I've ever gotten volunteer
> basil. The
> volunteer herbs make me happy, I have cilantro, dill and now basil
> just
> popping up in spots.
> In the dry garden, the native salvia is hitting its
> peak, desert willow
> and silk trees are covered in blossom but everything else
> is fading
> fast. I think I should shear back the salvia greggii, there's lots
> of
> twiggy stuff on it and not that many flowers.
> We won't talk about the rest
> of the front yard. :-(
> I still haven't called anyone about our bees...they're
> not really
> bothering anything (yet) so it's easy to forget. Where we take our
> riding lesson they have a wild hive too, I mentioned it and the guy said
> he
> did try calling and no one wants them - they are afraid of the
> African bees.
> When we went cherry-picking the grower was complaining
> very loudly about the
> cost of renting bees but when I told him he could
> have mine free you'd have
> thought I was offering the plague. I was
> watching a PBS show on the
> disappearing bees last night and with all
> this trouble it's hard to believe I
> won't be able to find anyone who
> wants my non-aggressive wild bees. I gotta
> make the calls first, unless
> I hear it firsthand I don't know for sure.
>
> Cyndi
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