Re: Summer arrives
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  • Subject: Re: Summer arrives
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 20:42:48 +0000 (UTC)
Liked the idea of the roundup via paint roller; bet it would with poison ivy, too; just need one of those longer handles. 

Bonnie 
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: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 10:42:51 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Summer arrives 

That's one of them all right. There is a link on that page to hare 
barley, we have more of that than the other. 
My sister pointed out if I would just hire a gardener they could do all 
the stuff I hate to do (like mowing an acre of foxtails in March...) and 
I could do the fun stuff. If only I weren't so cheap. 

Cyndi 

-----Original Message----- 
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
Behalf Of james singer 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:20 PM 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Summer arrives 

Foxtail: 

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/foxtail_barley.html 


On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Kitty wrote: 

> Wonderful about the ring, Cyndi! I sold my first set to pay for the 
> second set, but someone stole that set. 
> 
> What's a foxtail? 
> 
> Kitty 
> neIN, Zone 5 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 
> 95 CS/SCOSI" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net> 
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:37 AM 
> Subject: [CHAT] Summer arrives 
> 
> 
>> We've been waiting and poof! summer's here. I hear it was 99F 
>> yesterday 
>> although it didn't seem that bad at my house, it's still breezy which 
>> helps quite a bit. 
>> Pea plants were done so I dug them out. Total was around 14 pounds of 
>> snow peas, I'm pretty happy with that. The spinach is starting to 
>> bolt 
>> but I still have lettuce since it got a much later start. We'll 
>> have to 
>> eat a lot of salad though because it won't last long in this 
>> weather. I 
>> see proto-squash on some of the zucchini plants, won't be too many 
>> weeks 
>> before zucchini starts, but I don't see as many tomatoes forming as 
>> I'd 
>> like. I did pick three bell peppers! While they got beat up pretty 
>> good 
>> by the wind after I put them out, a few of them still fruited and 
>> all of 
>> them are now recovering leaves tho they have a ways to go before 
>> looking 
>> lush. Corn is looking happy and my cukes and melons are coming along, 
>> the onions look huge already. I meant to direct seed some basil 
>> yesterday but didn't get to it. 
>> I had to take one of the dogs to the vet last week to get a foxtail 
>> removed from her ear. Second time in a month. DH suddenly realized 
>> that 
>> if he'd fixed the weed-eater back in February like I asked, we'd have 
>> avoided $500 in vet bills by knocking down all that stuff before it 
>> went 
>> to seed. He spent Saturday with his new weed-eater so that's now 
>> taken 
>> care of...but now we have loose foxtails all over the yard. Oh 
>> well, it 
>> looks nicer anyway. But no action without unintended consequences you 
>> know, he took the tractor out just to make one last pass and the 
>> drive 
>> shaft to the mower attachment fell out and got mangled. I don't know 
>> what a replacement costs but I bet it isn't cheap. 
>> The best part - besides chores well done and sitting in my chair 
>> hammock 
>> with a beer - was finding my wedding ring I thought I lost in the 
>> mountains last weekend. I found it inside our sleeping bag in the 
>> trailer. Maybe I dreamed I was putting on hand lotion? 
>> Anyway...woohoo! 
>> 
>> Cyndi 
>> 
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Inland Jim 
Willamette Valley 

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