Re: Turn off the wind!
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  • Subject: Re: Turn off the wind!
  • From: A*@aol.com
  • Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:08:37 -0400 (EDT)
Three days of rain here - followed by a sunny but cold day yesterday - not  
out of the low
50s.  Today it is a bit milder - 64, but again rainy.  We needed  some rain 
but not this 
much - over six inches in the past week.  And it  has been in the low 40s 
each night -
not our usual spring weather. Crazy!
 
I set out some tomato plants yesterday even though it was so cool - I hope  
they have
been hardened off enough.  I have peas up, but don't dare plant beans  or 
squash yet.
The ground is just not warm enough.
 
I have ordered Caladium bulbs from a Florida wholesaler, and they came  
Friday.  Most
years they don't ship until after Memorial Day, so I was surprised to get  
them.  I don't 
dare put them in the ground yet, for I know they don't like this much cold  
and wet.
I get these every year for my garden club and other friends.  I've  always 
had great
success with them.
 
Auralie
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/28/2013 5:49:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  gardenquee
n@gmail.com writes:

windy  here too.  I need to burn but can't w/ this wind.


On Tue, May  28, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Zemuly <zemuly@comcast.net> wrote:

> The  weather here was ideal over the long weekend. It's supposed to
> remain  that way until rain is predicted for Thursday. I have no
>  complaints.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May  28, 2013, at 1:35 PM, "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 412 
CS/SCOSI"
>  <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>
> > We're having  yet another wind event, this office is in a manufactured
> > building  and it's creaking and groaning all around me. They're saying
> >  gusts up to 70mph.  I am so tired of wind. I don't even know if  
there's
> > more or less than previous years, I just know I'd really  like it to
> > stop. There's dust everywhere inside, sand piles up in  corners outside,
> > my patio plants are tattered...argh. Someone  turn off the fan please.
> > I meant to get the roses deadheaded this  weekend but that didn't 
happen,
> > I lost momentum after stepping on  a gopher snake in the garage.  I 
think
> > most of you are  Facebook friends so you can read about it if you 
haven't
> > already.  I'm really glad we have never seen a rattler at my house.  My
>  > friend at work asked where was my husband in all this? Well, he  was
> > loafing in the air chair in the backyard. After I shooed the  snake out 
I
> > walked back there, all frazzled, and he looks up and  says "Was that you
> > screaming?". I love him dearly but that was  definitely a husband Fail.
> > :-)
> > Went into the  vegetable garden Monday morning and the biggest tomato
> > plant - 3  feet tall - was completely wilted. A gopher came up
> > underneath,  ate all the roots and six inches of the stem. In 20+ years
> > of  gardening I have never seen that.  They do a lot of damage but  
never
> > tomatoes! Husband set a trap and got him, I dug up a  volunteer tomato
> > out of a spot I haven't weeded yet and  replanted, but I don't know if
> > replanting was worth it or  not.  So far we've dispatched six rabbits,
> > eight ground  squirrels and five gophers and it's not even June. It's
> > just  astonishing how much damage the critters are doing this year, we
> >  are just not used to needing so much protection. I lost all the  
lettuce,
> > most of the peas, half the beans, all the cilantro, four  tomato plants
> > so far; I've given up weeding near the melons,  cucumbers and zucchini
> > hoping the critters will not be able to  find the plants among the 
weeds.
> > On the plus side the corn looks  pretty good and there are still 14
> > tomato plants left. Picked the  first zucchini on Sunday too. I haven't
> > pulled back the row cover  over the peppers but I peeked and they seem
> > okay, I'll need to  get in there to weed soon.
> > I'm still looking for the perfect  irrigation setup. I have been using
> > that leaky hose, but it only  lasts a couple years and isn't cheap. So I
> > bought drip tape,  which also was expensive but is supposed to last
> > longer, and that  didn't work at all. It puts out so little water that I
> > had to run  the sprinkler timers at the max time - 99 minutes - and even
> > that  wasn't enough.  Decided it wasn't worth buying another controller
>  > to add watering times so I'm back to leaky hose. But now it's  
developing
> > large holes where the critters are biting it trying to  get water.
> > Sigh...gonna be one of those years.
> > I  went riding twice this weekend, that was fun although the wind makes
>  > it rather gritty. I was so pleased with my horse River on Monday,  our
> > ride included a tunnel under the road. I got him last year  but somehow
> > we haven't tried a tunnel before. I didn't know what  he would do and 
was
> > anticipating a struggle, most horses don't  like it. But he pricked up
> > his ears and zipped through like he'd  done it a million times, actually
> > trying to get in front of the  other horses to go through.  I'm guessing
> > he had very  pleasant experiences in past either with tunnels or
> > something  like that, a dark barn passageway maybe, and at the end was
> > his  home or a treat. I'll have to try him with the tunnel under the
> >  freeway near us, it's much longer.
> > Hope everyone's doing okay, no  flooding or tornadoes.
> >
> > Cyndi

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