Re: Heat season

well now... it is like 84 at something to 9pm here. Yesterday we had a
cold wind, today it is windier, but now a hot breeze. Ma nature just
can't make up her mind! Supposed to get some much needed rain here, but
also hail tomorrow then back to seasonable weather.


So far I have resisted planting anything that I can't bring in if it does hit freezing again.  Predict 39 wed night here....

Donna

----- Original Message ----
From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 5:20:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Heat season


So how much did you get?
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Heat season


> The rains came.
> 
> On May 14, 2007, at 2:05 PM, james singer wrote:
> 
>> The heat's definitely here. It's 89 degrees now. We're scheduled for 
>> showers and TS later this afternoon, but so far no clouds--just that 
>> hazy, smoky stuff. Really need the rain--a third of the state's on 
>> fire and the rest is a tinderbox.
>>
>> I did a quick census count on the avocado tree yesterday. I counted up 
>> to 50 without moving very much, so I quit. They're all the size of 
>> damson plums now, so we'll probably lose some before mid-July, but I 
>> think not many. This year I plan to try to peddle a bunch of them to 
>> one of the produce sellers at the farmer's market. The nice thing 
>> about this variety is they ripen a good month before any other Florida 
>> variety, so the only competition is those smallish California [or 
>> Mexico] Hass avocados. Most people will find these far superior.
>>
>> I don't know if the gardenia in in some sort of death throe or what. 
>> We have a 10-inch glass salad bowl on the kitchen table with a dozen 
>> blooms floating in it--and there's four or five times that many blooms 
>> on the bush, so many in fact that half the branches are drooping under 
>> the weight of the flowers. We've never seen it like this before.
>>
>> Spent most of the weekend chopping out some plants that were molesting 
>> a couple of Chinese fan palms along the property line. Good progress, 
>> but no where near done. My guess is it'll take a couple more 
>> weeks--limited mostly by the rules governing yard refuse pick up. But 
>> once it's done, we'll have room to install a couple more [different] 
>> palms and a pad for the barbeque.
>>
>> Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
>> Hardiness Zone 10
>> Heat Zone 10
>> Sunset Zone 25
>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Sunset Zone 25
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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