Re: Spring? Wha hoppen?
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  • Subject: Re: Spring? Wha hoppen?
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:50 -0700
Interesting. Determinant, then?
On May 10, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/ SCOSI wrote: 


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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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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Willamette Valley

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