On 6/1/2017 8:14 PM, gloria p wrote:
> On 4/28/2017 4:45 PM, George Shirley wrote:
>> We put up six pints of spicy carrot sticks yesterday with garlic with
>> them. Our carrot crop this year was outstanding. Probably will freeze
>> some as rounds just for stews and soups. Most were at least two inches
>> in diameter at the top but only about four inches long. Very sweet and
>> tasty.
>>
>> George
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>
> It always amazes me that you are near the end of your growing season
> when we are still battling snow (two weeks ago, the day I flew to CA to
> visit daughter's family.) Since I left, DH reports a couple of severe
> hailstorms so our usual "after Mother's Day" planting advice didn't work
> this year.
Move south, we have a heavy fog this morning, probably due to the really
nice rain we had yesterday and last night. The gardens are perked up
nicely. We are getting temps in the high eighties to low nineties now.
AC runs day and night, electric bill is going up again.
>
> Of course, springtime in the Rockies brings our 7 day forecast to the
> high 80s all next week.
>
> In northern San Diego County, Daughter had a bowlful of fist-sized
> lemons on the counter from her MIL's tree. We also harvested a fresh
> pineapple from the potted plant that I started over a decade ago in my
> dining room window. It moved to CA with her family seven years ago.
> We also ate fresh snow peas every day, tiny carrots from thinnings, and
> wonderful corn and strawberries thanks to the many farmers' markets.
> I love it there.
>
> Stay cool and healthy, George.
>
> gloria p
I miss our lemon tree back in Louisiana. We started another one here but
the two day freeze last January got it. And we don't have any more seed.

Miss Tilly Dawg always gets me up early as she gets her only feeding in
the morning. She is snoozing on the couch in my office now, has had her
breakfast, gone outside to do her morning business. My little girl is
getting more gray on her muzzle every day. She turned ten years old in
May but is still spry. Miz Anne went to Maryland to surprise her eldest
brother who turned 80 two weeks ago. Had a good visit with her four
siblings and came home ready to garden.

My arthritis keeps me from gardening as I cannot bend over or squat
anymore and my tractor seat runabout doesn't help anymore. Bumper crop
of three sorts of tomatoes and the cukes are starting to make as are the
green beans. We had a late spring this year.

George