[AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
charlie hill
charliehill at embarqmail.com
Wed Sep 15 04:43:25 PDT 2010
Ralph my dad always said "dry weather will scare you near to death but wet
weather will kill you".
Charlie
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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
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> From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
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>
>> Ralph, the scary part for me here in California is that we still do not
>> have
>> our first tomatoes ripe.... They are a big cost item to grow and I have
>> no
>> fruit yet about to go into the third week of September! Why? Cool and wet
>> spring, then cool summer, now what about the fall? So far this year looks
>> like 1964 when the cannery tomatoes were still being harvested at almost
>> Christmas. I'm praying for a WARM fall without rain!
>> Grant Brians
>> Hollister,California
>> Vegetable Farmer
>
> Grant, that sound like Sask. weather. As I mentioned to Charlie, the cold
> might save our crops from sprouting in the fields since they are too wet
> to
> combine.
> RE: tomatoes, they are a failure here this year. Some type of blight has
> struck and I don't know if I am going to get one edible tomato off the
> whole
> garden. Picked a few green ones to ripen in the house but they are
> starting
> to rot before they ripen or turn red. I've heard of other people having to
> throw all their out as the same thing happened. The problems of a wet
> year.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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