RE: Spring? Wha hoppen?
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  • Subject: RE: Spring? Wha hoppen?
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:22:43 -0700
How frustrating! Hope your plants recover. I've had tomatoes come back
from a lot of damage. 
I picked almost 5 pounds of snow peas yesterday. The first to bloom are
actually starting to look like they are fading out, despite the weather
staying fairly cool...I was hoping for a longer season but maybe they
only set so much and are gone regardless of the weather. 

Cyndi  


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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
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Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 1:40 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] Spring? Wha hoppen?

What a crazy season.  In late March we had two 90 degree days followed
by a near frost the following week.  Last week we had another heat
spell,
and then it seemed to settle down to normal late April weather - days in
the
high 70s and nights in the 40s.  I decided the ground was warm enough to
plant my first row of beans, and I moved the tomatoes I had started
indoors
in pots out into the screened porch to harden off.  I usually hang these

pots
of cherry tomatoes in the breezeway.  Yesterday at the Teatown Plant
Sale
Chet bought me a flat of white impatiens.  I contemplated setting them
right
out, since it was sunny, but decided that since it was pretty windy, I
would
put it off until today.  The wind was fierce during the night, and again

this
morning.  The temperature was 39 degrees.  The wind is still fierce, and

when I looked at my tomatoes on the screened porch, they look quite
frost-bitten.  I'm sure it's the wind-chill that did it.  They aren't
dead, 
but
looked pretty burned.  I brought them in and hope they'll recover. Now
they
tell us to expect a freeze tonight and again tomorrow night.  
I have a large planter of one of the hardy geraniums - can't remember
which
one, but it has a small, fancy leaf, and pinky white flowers.  It has 
survived
for several winters just in the screened porch - no protection from the 
cold.
I put it in there for the winter so that the very large ceramic planter 
won't
crack from freezing and thawing.  Well, I had the handyman move it out
this week, thinking we were past all that.  When I just looked at it, it
is
all wilted as if it were being frost-bitten.  It must be wind-chill,
because
this plant has stayed green all winter through all kinds of bitter cold.
I
watered it well and hope it recovers, as it is just ready to burst into
full
bloom.
At least I only planted a small row of beans, and used the experimental
variety that was sent with my order.  I was curious to see what they
would
produce, but I'm sure these won't make it.
And the peas should benefit from this cold snap.  I was afraid that the
heat spells would get to them before they even began to produce.  Peas
really don't like hot weather, and I had been a little late getting them
in
as the ground was snow-covered on St. Patrick's day, which is the 
traditional day to plant them around here.
Happy Mother's Day to all.
Auralie

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