RE: It's really summer now
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  • Subject: RE: It's really summer now
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:26:56 -0700
I have friends in Angel Fire, I'll have to give them a shout and see
what's up with the fires. Would be nice to visit again. WAY too much
snow in the winter for me though. 
Does summer oil work against the tomato bugs? It is like the winter
dormant oil but more diluted. Not sure you can use it in such high
temperatures though. 

Cyndi  


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Patricia Dickson
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:41 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] It's really summer now


 Me too?? I would love to have a recipe for dill green beans.  Sounds
wonderful!

My garden is really suffering from the heat and drought.  I have
gathered
several zucchini squash and the pumpkin vine is taking over everything
but
the tomatoes are almost leafless from the black blister bugs.  Does
anyone
have suggestions on how to get rid of them?  I don't like to use
chemicals
so I have been squashing them but they are getting smarter and dropping
into
the mulch then stay very still so I can't see them or burying themselves
in
the mulch.

 My okra is short but growing, I have gathered some jalapenos and a few
bell
peppers and growing but not many.  The yellow squash is way behind.... I
have green beans almost ready to start producing but the black eyed peas
are
slow getting growing.
I have cucumbers and they are beginning to vine and flower so cukes must
not
be far behind.

We have had 100+ degrees most of the month with no rain to speak of.
This
would all be ok if the wind wasn't blowing almost every day at 20+ mph.
I
compare it to cooking something in a convection oven.  Our county is in
a
fire ban for the month.  We did have .7 in of rain last night with a
possibility of a sprinkle tonight.  It has stayed hot overnight too so
the
plants have no recovery time.

We spent last week in Angel Fire NM and Santa Fe, NM.  It was so
pleasant to
have the cooler temperatures.  The negative was the fires that started
and
the threat of fire everywhere all the way out and back.

My lavendar has done really well, russian sage, black/blue sage,
victoria
blue sage, and the "Becky" daisy is starting to bloom.  I hope everyone
else
is having a better year gardening.
Tricia

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:13 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES
<bonnie_holmes@comcast.net>wrote:

> Do you have a recipe that you would be willing to share.
>
> B
> ETN Zone 7
> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson" <
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>  Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:48:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] It's really summer now
>
> Dilly beans are pickled green beans with dill. Mmmm.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of BONNIE_HOLMES
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 7:35 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] It's really summer now
>
> Wow, lots of work. BTY, what are dilly beans?
>
> B
> ETN Zone 7
> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson"
> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:28:12 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] It's really summer now
>
> We're getting to the time of year when, after being left in the car
all
> day, my travel mug of coffee is hotter at the end of the day than it
is
> when I pour it. But this is just normal heat, nothing much to remark
> about.
> I spent the weekend fortifying the fence around the entire garden
area,
> hacking out the rabbitbrush that had grown up near the fence, crawling
> under the junipers to get at the corners, and pretty much ruining my
> hands manipulating chicken wire and making little wire twist ties. I
> think it is all barricaded now and if we see rabbits at least the
holes
> they use will be fewer.
> It doesn't look like I'll be getting a bumper crop of green beans
thanks
>
> to the rabbits, gophers, and having to plant late. Last year was
pretty
> good though and we still have jars in the pantry, so we'll eat a lot
of
> fresh this summer. Making dilly beans is less time-consuming than
> pressure-canning so I might make a lot of those this summer.
> All in all the veggie garden is looking decent and I've been able to
> spend a bit more time in the front too. Having the gardener do the
> mowing and some weeding sure helps. But there's always something to be
> done. Recently I noticed my lab is digging a largish hole in the back
> lawn so he has a nice cool spot to lie in. Sigh...time to go buy him
> another wading pool I guess.
> Blooming now are roses, salvias, buckwheat, Shasta daisies, daylilies,
> acanthus, lavender, coreopsis, gaillardia, and pelargoniums.
>
> Cyndi
>
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Patricia Dickson
10078 N. 2396 Road
Weatherford, Ok 73096
580-302-0042 (cell/business)
580-772-0502 (home)

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