Re: [gardeners] gardeners Digest V1 #1180
c.l. avery (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:38:27
Dear George and List,
George -- surely you are not serious about disbanding the list???? No,
please, no! I'm sure that there are many of us who, quietly lurking, enjoy
reading however little or much is produced on the list! Please reconsider.
Even if just one posting a week -- it's rewarding.
I've gone pepper crazy this year and have a row of green ones, a row of
red ones, a row of yellow ones, a row of orange ones, and a row of hot
peppers thrown in to boot. All are about knee high and are just starting to
flower. I've got 4 different kinds of tomatoes growing and only one of
them, a yellow table-top cherry tomato, has fruit on it at this point.
Flowers are just starting on the tomatoes as well. I like to 'espalier' the
tomatoes and so my little garden patch has 8 12 foot spikes growing out in
it, awaiting the tomato plants getting taller. Kinda spooky looking as it
is now.
My blueberry season is strangely extended this year. The patch on the left
hand side has already produced and I don't see many more coming along. The
patch on the right hand side is just now flowering! So, more to come in the
next few weeks. Believe me, I'm not complaining, just find it strange and
odd that the same kind of bush would bloom so very differently -- they are
only l0 feet apart from each other. My alpine strawberries had their first
flush and now the second wave of berries seems to be coming in. I love
them! I have Alexandria's in the backyard and Rugen Improved in the front
yard.
I trimmed and weeded and generally wrestled under control my ivy patch
(underneath two holly trees) on Saturday and now, as has always happened in
the past, am itching my hands/wrists/ankles and seeing the bumps of poison
ivy forming!!! Darn it all!!! I always think that each year I've gotten
the darn stuff under control and that there isn't any more of it there
lurking for me. And I'm always wrong.
Carolyn
Bethesda
Zone 7a
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