Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article >, Kathi Jones
> > wrote:
>
>> "Dave Balderstone" > wrote in message
>> news:280520091842180436%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderst one.ca...
>>> In article
>>> >,
>>> Mimi > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, I am in zone 8b so Dave hates you more George than he hates me.
>>> Yer all bastids...
>>>
>>> But I finally got the irrigation system installed on the raised beds,
>>> and booked Friday off work so I can do some SERIOUS gardening.
>>>
>>> So perhaps "hate" is too strong a word.
>> "envy"..........that's the one I use.
>
> Envy... Hmm. A bit weak, I think. "Henvate"?
>
>> All the stuff those guys do is way more interesting that what I could ever
>> do.....dewberries? figs? persimmons? sheesh ~ I missed out on a sale of
>> mangos this week - that's about as exotic as it gets around
>> here....sihivering in cold and wet zone 5A.......
>
> Iv'e seen fig trees in some microclimates inVancouver when I lived
> there. You're in the Ottowa area, right? I'm in Saskatoon and it looks
> like spring has finally arrived. April was dreadful, the worst in the
> 15 years we've been here.
>
> Global warming can kiss my shiny metal ass...
>
>> I planted 3 tomato plants, 2 basil, 1 oregano and 1 rosemary, all in patio
>> pots this year. No time or money to start a new garden (old one is infested
>> with tomato blight or some such thing - not gonna plant anything THERE
>> anymore).
>
> I've cut back the tomatoes to fewer than 10 this year. Sob... But I
> still have jars in the cold room from 2007 and SWMBO even had The Boy
> working with her to discourage me from planting too many. In 2007 I
> harvested over 250 pounds... So it's BLTs for this year's crop, and
> there will be much rejoicing.
>
> Only one tomatillo this year, but that's because I put two in last year
> and didn't realize how farkin' BIG they get!
>
> But lots and lots of basil and other herbs, and pickling cukes, and
> we'll see what else when I go shopping tomorrow morning.
>
> I'm even putting in catnip and catmint, though Spooky is quite old and
> starting to fail. She does love chewing on the fresh stuff, though.
>
>> Everything will be enjoyed fresh, unless there are extra herbs in
>> the fall - then I'll do something with them so that we can enjoy it through
>> the winter (still using last year's frozen basil).
>
> I still have some pesto in the freezer from last year, but I'll find a
> way to use it at my birfday party in a couple of weeks. Half a
> century... wow.

When I hit fifty I vowed to only celebrate every twenty years, guess
what! It will have been twenty years on September 23, 2009. DW says we
shall have a big shindig for my seventieth. I told her don't jinx me,
something might happen between now and September.

>
> Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
>
>> The day I got them all
>> planted, we had frost...had to cover everyhting up. That was easy enough to
>> do but neighbours thought we had ghosts on the porch....I used drop sheets.
>
> We could still get frost here, but it's starting to FEEL like we won't.
>
> Sure hope not, the apple trees should be blooming in the next week.
>
Don't envy our weather, we have one peach on the tree, three pears, no
plums, two quince, and about six dozen persimmons. The fig tree, as
usual, is loaded. Sometimes we get good crops, sometimes some Canadian
forgets to close the gate to the south forty-eight and we get a late
frost that fritzes everything.