Re: Neil's lament (was seedlings)


Nancy's response...

>Sorry Neil, don't know what came over me.  Just keep in mind that by >the
end of June it will be too hot to even go out in my garden.  And
>then I can look forward to canning vegetables when it's 110 degrees
>outside.
>
>As for the acreage with white birch, you're outta luck, fella!  I
>could probably find you a few acres of rocks with some 50 foot tall,
>5 inch diameter pine trees...or maybe some swampland with cypress >trees.
Ever heard of kudzu?  Once it covers all the tree stumps and
>power poles, looks just like a jungle.  How does that sound???  Of
>course, you do have to worry about the mosquitos, since it never gets
really cold enough in the winter to kill them all...
>
>How goes the greenhouse?
>
>Nancy Lowe
>Arkansas, zone 7


  Thanks for the info, Nancy...

   I've been down your way...back in early May.....'94...or so. I think that
there is a place called Jacksonville.....outside of Little Rock. It wasn't
quite 110...but it was sure comfortable.
  I never knew the name of that vine which turns the highways into
tunnels...but sort of neat to a northerner.

  Two observations...

 1- I don't know if my host was pulling my leg or not....but he made a
     point of telling us not to lay on the grass....something about
     ''chiggers?'' biting or getting under your skin. Can you confirm?...or
     am I way off base?.

 2- (Remember...I'm going by memory here....)...but...Were there large,
     serpentine mounds of earth running through otherwise quite flat
     fields? Perhaps some kind of crop? Do you grow rice down there?

      Hey!...thanks for asking about the greenhouse. Got the framework
  and glass in my back yard now....We've been real busy at the
  nursery...(and getting busier..)..so I've had to be satisfied with a cold
  frame..(or sorts..) for now.
      No white birch, eh? Shame.....but there are some nice cypress,
  aren't there?

     I'm not sure if this note would qualify for our 'perennial list' or
not...so
  if you (or any one else..) would like to respond directly....my address
  is ossprey@nb.sympatico.ca

      Neil.....still looking FORWARD to an N.B. spring....(some of you
  UpperZoners can only see it in the rear view mirror...)

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