Re: [gardeners] No rain...???
Michael & Bambi Cantrell (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:03:32 -0400
>> Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com
>> (trying hard to remember what a properly vine-ripened tomato tastes like)
>
>Would you like several dead plants to go with them? All of our plants
>cooked but two and we're guarding them. Even the fall tomato plants
>croaked.
>
>Good news though. Since my message about the rain falling today we've
>gotten in excess of 3.5 inches. It was raining so hard the gutters
>overflowed so I filled 3 30 gallon trash cans and several 5 gallon
>buckets with rainwater. It has cooled down to the high seventies and a
>cool breeze is blowing, it's almost bearable outside. Wet, but bearable.
>
>George, doing a little happy dance for rain
We were glad of the rain we got too George, and for the cooler
temps that came with the cold front that pushed Dennis off to the
north and towards the east. Our high was only in the 80's
today and it was wonderful, even if I did spend the whole
day at work.
Life is good.
Bambi
Coastal Carolina