Re: It's really summer now
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  • Subject: Re: It's really summer now
  • From: P* D* <p*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:09:24 -0500
I just went out and sprayed a mixture of cinnamon, peppermint, canola
and other oils from a can of organic flying bug killer. I sprayed it at
the base of plant when the bugs dropped. Not sure if it would kill them
but slowed them down enough for me to pinch them.

It is a little cooler this morning.... Thought we were going to have rain but it just spat out a few drops!
I love gardening but this year makes me think of selling and buying a condo. 
Chris your rooftop garden sounds fantastic. What size rubbermaid containers do you use?

sent from my i-phone 
 Patricia Dickson

On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:26 AM, "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI"<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:

> 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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> Weatherford, Ok 73096
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