Re: [gardeners] The weekend
Jane Burdekin (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:53:16 -0700
Our January has been pretty nice too, but not nearly as warm as yours. We
have had a problem with white lawns about 3 times but I found an onion and
have some spinach growing in the garden. I got my peppers planted, seven
varieties. I also did some work in the greenhouse.
Jane
(strange how quiet the list is during the superbowl)
>
> What a wonderful month of January! The temps have been
> above average, and rainfall has been adequate.
>
> Many of the plants are ahead of their normal bloom times by a
> month or more.
>
> The maple tree in my front yard is blooming as are the early daffodils,
> and even some azaleas. The buds on the Bradford Pear trees are
> getting noticably larger, as are the dogwood buds.
>
> The highs have been in the 50's to near 80 most days this month. We did
> have a couple of nights with the lows below 30*F. A cold front came
through
> today and dropped the temps from the low 50's to the low 30's. Freezing
> weather to us.
>
> Yesterday was a very busy day here. We picked up our middle child
> from a friend's house, then took the kids to the Scout's Pinewood Derby,
> where David's car won first place with the Scouts,
> and Erin's car won second place in the family catagory.
>
> Then it was off to a soccer game for Erin. Her team lost as they went
> into overtime due to a tie score, and the other team got the first goal.
> She had another game an hour later, which they won 12:1.
> In the meantime, I had run David over to a pizza party with his Scout
troop.
>
> At home Mike was fixing a broken water faucet on our outside faucet.
> It was old and had deteriorated, and was the main faucet that I usually
> use year round.
>
> After all the games, etc were over we went to a cookout at Mom's with
> a bunch of friends. All the kids cooked marshmallows over the
> fire we had outside after we ate supper. We adult kids did wait for the
> young children to get roasted marshmallows first. :-)
>
> Everyone had a good time, and it was a great, if very busy day.
>
> To add a bit of gardening to this, I got my ground prepared and planted
> snow peas between the Pinewood Derby and the soccer games.
> Interestingly enough, I found a piece of potato that I had planted last
> spring!
> It was a cut little chunk of potato with little roots growing from it,
but
> no
> signs of any greenery. It was in perfect shape with no signs of rot.
> I've never seen anything like this before. I reburied it. I'll see what
> happens. It was a seed potato that I got from a hardware/gardening
> store, not one that I had gotten from a grocery store, so should not have
> been sprayed to retard growth. We did have floods then a bad drought
> here last year, but the 2 other potatoes that the squirrels didn't dig up
> grew and produced as did the peas that I had planted there earlier,
> and the peppers that I later planted. Kind of strange.....
>
> Hope y'alls month was as good as ours.
>
> Bambi
> Coastal Carolina
> USDA zone 8; AHS Heat zone 8; Sunset zone 31