RE: daily rain
- Subject: RE: daily rain
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:25:23 -0700
Claire and others suffering under a dripping sky,
As one who has often felt the same way about daily rain.......Life is full
of such contrasts. I have just returned from a visit to a family wedding
north of Seattle. It was 93 with brilliant sun shining on Puget Sound where
the sailboats were gliding by and the natives were dropping like flies!
(too hot to move, nice red skin, much complaining) With the exception of a
few stalwart adventurers (obviously Californians!) who were driving 70 mph
on the jammed freeway with the convertible top down and the wind blowing
hair in their eyes. :) Wedding visitors from the east were enjoying the
heat with low humidity, Seattlites were drying their webbed feet and a good
time was had by all.
Marilyn Dube'
Portland, Oregon
P.S. I didn't see any slugs :)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of ECPep@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:06 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Bowling balls, or, the only thing that's blooming in this
drought
I am sorry you are missing rain. We are rained on daily and for the first
time in quite afew years I have lost outdoor planted annual seedling to
slugs
- little stumps in the frames. I also found some new slugs which I think you
guys in the West sent to us so we couldbe as slug happy as you are. There
are dark brown, nearly as wide as long and very slow moving. They seem to
perch in one place and remain there. They have a muscle strip I've not seen
before in the local slugs. I found and killed three of them. Maybe the
rain
has allowed a hertofore not widely found species to multiply. We usually
have little slug problem so this is the first year I have gone out an
purchased a box of the meal form for seed beds.
Karen I do hope this everlasting rain will dip south of us and visit you.
It
can be very discouraging for a keen gardener. The only suggestion I could
make is to use a lot of containers where you can control the water. I am
sure the long drought here a few years back caused the explosion in
container
gardening. If offers you a lot of color, experimentation with new plants
and a real garden while watching your babies ourdoors shrink and look
miserable.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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