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RE: Hardly any mail

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Hi Teri!
I've been planning to write, but I had no answers to your compost problem. I
am trying to nurse some crops along for a fall harvest since my
spring/summer garden didn't do so well. We are smack dab in the middle of
1.1 million acres of wild fires so the air is so bad it's all I can do, to
go out and water. Thank God for air conditioning! I often wonder what the
plants must think of all the smoke. We've been told our air is full of
carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and I think they like the former, but I
don't know about the latter. The heat has been tough on them but it's cooled
a little now, by the way, does broccoli bolt?  Mine was forming and now it's
just going to flower. Here's hoping you can get rid of those creepy crawlies
in your compost, we've been invaded by earwigs and I've read they are
related to roaches so that r-e-e-ealy grosses me out!! Cooking them in the
sun sounds like a good idea. I notice the earwigs seem to be driven in by
the heat and seek out cool, dark places. So fry, roaches, fry!!

Paula in Big Sky Country (when we can see it!)

------Original Message------
From: "Teri Epp" <kitty@cwnet.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: August 16, 2000 3:18:15 PM GMT
Subject: Hardly any mail


Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Hi- I haven't recieved much mail from the club ltely - is the system slow or
are you all just busy busy busy?  I haven't resolved the compost dilma with
the roaches - except to move it into the sun and cook it for a while- if
they ain't gone soon- I'm bagging the whole mess up and pitching it.
I have started another pile-question- I have oak leaves coming out my ears
and know that they are hard to break down-so weed eat them in a garbage can
before adding them to the compost- but wondered if anyone knew how to make
leave mold and if they would be good for that or any other ways to use them.
I have used crushed leaves for mulch in parts of my gardens- slugs hate
them- but they are very acid, fly away easy and mat down preventing water
from going thru  if you don't stir them up regularly. Suggestions?  Things
are starting to slow down a bit in the garden and I am not sure I am going
to do a fall planting other than to use the beds to "hold " fledgling
perinial that I can transplant next spring. The garden area is very swampy
and low in the winter and have not yet made good rock paths to get me over
and around that garden without a boat.! I can't see going out to pick
brocolli in hip boots.What is goiing on in your gardens?-Teri



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