Like you even get cold brrrrrr weather! Humph!
Radish question...
lol..well we did...like 3 days last year we had freezing weather, it was funny as heck everyone's yard looked like it had ghost cause all the sheets on everything. We even had snow flurries on Xmas, I told DH that it was Momma sending me a Merry Xmas since it was the first year I hadn't been with family for the holidays but just didn't feel that I could handle it with Dad's new wife so soon after Mom passed away.
how sweet, I do recall when you all had that strange weather, seems ours was stranger, and we all had a White Christmas! But you just haven't had brrrr weather until you have our north wind! They say there is no barrier on the high plains between the TX panhandle and the North Pole :-)
I use to live in Fulda Germany so I know cold (I'm a walking hot flash so I'd love it) but one of the good things about this hot and humid weather is that things grow here like crazy! I said in another post I had never seen azaleas like grow here till we moved. The are like big full bushes and stay green the entire year etc. You said someplace you cover you plants to shade them..do I need to do this? And if so what plants and when?
I have a lot of things shaded today. But just because I am trying cultivars that prefer cooler weather. Frankly, since i have no SHADE to speak of, I make it , because full sun = 6 hours a day, not 16 hours a day. So when its hot, I put milk crates or bushel baskets or even cardboard boxes over some of the cool weather plants. Or other plants if they look stressed, they get shadeIt just gets so hot then so cool here, not steady weather like a normal climate. May 2 we have 6 inches of snow, followed by two weeks of extra cool weather. Now were in the 90s, 100 by Saturday.
Cherry Belle, Early White Tipped Scarlet and Pink Beauties are doing great - lots of then are growing above ground, so I'm picking them at small marble size instead of large marble size, but the are great! The Pink Beauties are so mild they are almost sweet!
The biggest problems seem to be with both types of Reneee's Garden French Breakfast. I will review the planting instructions and replant.
I picked up the seeds for Early Scarlet GLobe,Sparkler White Tip, White Icicle, Cherry Belle so lets hope they do well when I plant them in another few months. It was one of the main things DH was looking forward to. Only the Sparkler White Tip isn't on my list of ones that grow well in this area but I'll do a little research on him.
Well, the radish tops must be good, the rabbits mowed mine down to the ground. Where is Elmer Fudd when you need him?
-Juli
The heck wit EF - get a BIG CAT!
water them good, and they may grow back...
Well, I tried pouring blood meal on them and everywhere else in the garden and then sprayed some of that Hinder on them to see if that works. I haven't gone out there yet this morning to see if it worked. I think I'm gonna spend the day putting up a chicken wire fence. I wouldn't mind a cat but we have coyotes. When we first moved here we found cat parts and chicken parts all over our property every morning until we got the fence put in.
-Juli
*blink blink* ahhem..ahhh
Well, I would have thought that the coyotes would eat the darned rabbits too but it seems not. They just like the neighbors chickens and somebody's poor cats.
-Juli
Lazy coyotes, the rabbits are too fast for 'em!
Good luck with the fence!