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Re: What's growing

Well now, that oughta tell you something about USDA Zones. Olin is in 9b in
the desert, I'm in 9b where we get an average of 65 inches of rain a year.
I've got a few months to go on ripening most of what's planted, his harvest
season ends in May. I reckon we probably get just as hot as the desert does
in Maricopa, 100 degrees F plus in the hot season (July-August), but bet our
perceived heat is higher, we have 95-100% humidity most of the year. I think
I'm gonna go get the new Sunset national book.

At 11:30 PM 4/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Currently have 12 raised vegetable beds 39.37 inches by 78.74 inches
>(these are not square-foot beds), some irrigated with drip tape, others
>by hand.  Raised beds tend to dry out faster in our desert air but have
>other advantages.
>
>Have growing Fordhook and rhubard Swiss chard, red LaSota potatoes,
>Granex and walking onions currently in bloom, elephant garlic, several
>varieties of soft neck and hard neck garlic which will head out within a
>few weeks, 5 tomato varieties with some starting to ripen, bell peppers,
>chili peppers, eggplant, two each varieties of sweet corn, bush beans,
>summer squash, and winter squash with assorted culinary and medicinal
>herbs interplanted among the vegetables.
>
>Our vegetable harvesting season peaks in May.  Most bolt to seed or
>succumb to the 105 deg.F-plus heat the by the first two weeks in June.
>
>Olin Miller
>USDA Zone 9b
>Maricopa County AZ
>
>
>
George Shirley, Adventurer, Writer, Gardener, Putter-by
DX DM 08/11/94, NIDDM
USDA Zone 9b, SW Louisiana
gshirley@iamerica.net
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