[gardeners] Re: Sunday in the garden [sic]

George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:12:49 -0500 

As little as possible. We're already getting triple digit heat indexes and I
can't handle the heat for very long anymore. Diabetes has screwed up my body
thermostat. We're getting cukes, zukes, tomatoes, soon will get okra, the
peppers are growing well and we harvest a few along. The eggplant, as usual, is
outdoing itself. Last year we harvested well over 100 fruit from 7 plants so we
cut back to 6 plants and have already harvested 7 fruit so looks like another
productive eggplant year.

George

lneuru wrote:
> 
> What are you doing in the garden, George?
> 
> ----------
> > From: George Shirley <gshirl@bellsouth.net>
> > To: lneuru <lneuru@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
> > Subject: Re: Sunday in the garden [sic]
> > Date: Sunday, June 24, 2001 11:51 PM
> >
> > There has been no gardeners mail for at least a week now. If volume
> doesn't pick
> > up soon we will disband the list for lack of interest. Come on folks we
> know
> > you're lurking out there. Is everyone busy gardening?
> >
> > George
> >
> > lneuru wrote:
> > >
> > > borrowing a leaf from George, here.  I have received no garden mail for
> > > awhile, several days, I think.  Am I still with you?
> > >
> > > We went out today for another bout of weeding.  I have been
> incapacitated
> > > for almost 6 weeks but am more or less functional now.........and boy
> has
> > > the garden enjoyed it's freedom while I've been laid up!  So far 6
> garbage
> > > cans/bags full of weeds (too much to compost) and we are only about
> halfway
> > > through a 50 by 150 yard.  It's been alternately hot, then rainy and
> cool,
> > > ideal conditions for the stuff in this climate (Great Lakes).
> > >
> > > We found termites in our pressurized lumber raised beds, one, anyway,
> so we
> > > figure it's in more of them.  So much for making life better through
> > > chemicals.  I'm sending Len off the Canadian Tire for lots of termite
> > > poison. - we don't use pesticides but we are going to make an exception
> > > here.  And we are going to replace wood with stone, just as soon as the
> > > bugs are dead.
> > >
> > > We now have a red squirrel; he ate all the sunflower seeds in the bird
> > > feeder, then ate the bird feeder.  They are very destructive little
> > > beasts....all my high falutin precepts about wildlife and gun control
> in
> > > cities etc.etc. are being replaced with dreams of h-bombing this
> > > creature......add to that the skunk we had removed from under our porch
> > > (2nd year in a row - she found the tiniest, moveable brick in the
> walkway)
> > > and the possum who has moved in somewhere in the back 40.  Aren't they
> > > supposed to be southern creatures? So far no #$%^& groundhogs, but I
> guess
> > > they'll be next.
> > >
> > > What is happening up here is that we are just the tiniest bit warmer
> the
> > > last few years, that and the animals are being presssured by
> encroaching
> > > ciites.  We are and have been town for over 100 years here, but near a
> very
> > > large railway allowance and a conservation area, and a big park.  So I
> > > guess we look like the woods.  We have more wildlife here than we do
> down
> > > east on the farm where we *are* woods, almost.
> > >
> > > The weeding was somewhat satisfying, but I ached badly in the
> shoulders; 2
> > > aspirin did nothing so finally resorted to hot water in the shower,
> full on
> > > the bum shoulder, and that did the trick.
> > >
> > > So life has returned to good - another leaf from George.
> > >
> > > Lucinda