Les on thu 21 feb 08
Well, here we are up here in the Great Northwest Rainforest where it is
averaging about 9C to 12C ( 48F to 54F).... but it is raining most days.
Our bananas are not ripening yet.......
Les Crimmp in Nanoose Bay, B.C. (Vancouver Island)
lcrimp@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: -12/freezing Texas
> Lemons can take more cold than the others. We used to cover the trees with
> a
> large drop cloth and put a small kerosene fired road warning device from
> the
> fifties under the tree like a small smudge pot.
> JB
>> Subject: Re: -12/freezing Texas
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Marcia Selsor on thu 21 feb 08
Que horror!!!
My citruses are blooming now.
First the lemon trees then the ornages and npw four grapefuit slowly
coming on.
The fruit is divine from these trees. I shudder to think of a freeze
to them!
OK I take it back.
From briskly chilled Texas.
Marcia
On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:27 AM, KATHI LESUEUR wrote:
>
> Don't be so cocky about the weather Marcia. I was there for the
> freeze of '83 that wiped out 80% l of the citrus and most of the tall
> palms. And, after that first year winter didn't seem so warm. I
> realize it doesn't compare to Montana (after all, south Texas
> measures freezes by hours below 32 degrees), but when you get used to
> the weather there it won't feel so warm in the winter.
>
> BTW, for an interesting trip, go over to Harlengin. Downtown there's
> an antique shop and a number of other buildings owned by some friends
> of mine, Bill and Sue Debrooke. In one is a display of my pots from
> 1982, when they started collecting my work until recently. Some I'd
> like to remove and destroy. But, it is quite a history. And, what
> they've done with the buildings is really neat to see.
>
> Kathi LeSueur
Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com
James and Sherron Bowen on thu 21 feb 08
Lemons can take more cold than the others. We used to cover the trees with a
large drop cloth and put a small kerosene fired road warning device from the
fifties under the tree like a small smudge pot.
JB
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Subject: Re: -12/freezing Texas
Donald Burroughs on fri 22 feb 08
Sorry Marcia (Texas)
Blame the cold on Manitoba...."Friendly Manitoba" (catch phrase on our
licence plates). Think of it as an inverse Chinook.
Regards, Don
Jeremy McLeod on sat 23 feb 08
Based on recent experience here in SE Michigan, I've come to the conclusion
that I'm really OK with cold, even very cold, weather. We just need to
rethink this whole "freezing rain" thing. Do snow. Do rain. But that
middle-ground, neither one nor the other, cover the walking and driving
surfaces with a sheet of slippery? Just not my cuppa, ok? Yes, the trees
are pretty in their cloaks of ice, but we don't seem to know how to get that
effect with our all of life becoming an exercise in slip'n'slide.
End of tirade.
Peace.
Jeremy McLeod
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