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| It is hot, again, here in SoCal.
In my area, few homes have a/c so when it is mid nineties outside, it is only a bit less indoors. So what is a gardener with several half complete projects to do! Well sit inside slipping ice water, reading rose books and plotting the next garden project of course! I have a fun new stack of used gardening books, this of course means I need hmf to look up the roses listed, which leads to reading other articles on roses and emails on fall garden sales. Tomorrow the temps should drop, has me considering if I should go pick up a plant or two (assuming not roasted in the heat) or just prep the zone and wait for January (bareroot season) Hmmmm what to do. What are the rest of you doing on these hot fall days? |
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| Your temps are awful! When we were having that kind of heat, I worked at sun up for about an hour, then took a shower because I was drenched in sweat. The rest of the day, I stayed indoors in the a/c. Maybe went out in the evening after it cooled down a bit (i.e., 85-90 instead of 95-103) for a second round of yard work. Actually, I got a lot done this way. Since I'm retired (after being laid off and on unemployment for more than a year), so with a limited income these days, a/c for me means 85 or so. Not really cool, but much cooler than outside. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 2, 12 at 19:50
| It is in the mid 90's at Moms place and probably much hotter in the sun on her west facing hillside, so out door projects will get put off for the rest of today-they say it will cool off tomorrow. I hope so because I need to do battle with some aviary wire (hate working with that stuff) on the new covered chicken run we built last week. It is cooler under that tin; but hope the pear tree near by does not catch fire from the heat lol. |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam 10 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 2, 12 at 20:14
| It sure is! I keep a waitin' for these heat waves to stop. Here's a picture I took earlier at start of summer but this is what I'm doing in the heat. I did the baseboards before and am now on the Crown. They dry real fast on days like this! So it's basically Paint, water, saw. Paint, water, saw. The weekend is supposed to be nice and I want to plant if I can. |
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| On really hot days like yesterday and today, I water the container plants and walk the hose from Rose to Rose, and look longingly through the window at the projects I want to do. I have a list of projects I plan to tackle when the weather is cool again. (As I write this, I remembered I left the hose running on a rose and forgot to set the timer.... it ran for hours! Guess I won't be needing to water it for a few weeks....) |
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- Posted by HerdingCats none (My Page) on Wed, Oct 3, 12 at 0:32
| It is FAR too hot to survive outside past 10 am (here in the SFV). LOL. Hopefully, this will be the last heatwave, although I suspect we'll get some Santa Ana winds come the end of the month. What I've been doing is early morning do the soil work, and then, when I've done as much as I can, I meander around the flowers, clipping dead things, working on pegging, watering, planning, watering, clipping, watering. LOL. Shoot, these last two days I've turned soil and clipped aggressive ivy hanging down from the trees. I have to get out my electric chain saw and ladder and work on the branches of the trees, but I'm too hot even thinking about it. LOL. YES to reading emails, looking at catalogues, researching, planning, plotting. And yes to ice water. Best- |
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- Posted by HerdingCats none (My Page) on Wed, Oct 3, 12 at 11:10
| I just looked at the weather, and it is going to be absolutely GORGEOUS weather for the next 10 days - highs in the 80s (one 75* day), night time weather bewteen 60-62... Yeah, baby! It's garden time!! Just thought I'd bring some good news here. Happy gardening, everyone! Best- |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 3, 12 at 11:35
| Fog here! Thick and wet Good weather to battle wire. |
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| Still hot here. I've been forced to clean the house. |
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| The past several brutally-hot days -- huddling inside, working on publications I have to finish. Today! YIPPEE!!! Warm, but lovely, with a lovely sea breeze. We did a talk in the afternoon and ... came back and worked on publications. :-) Jeri |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 4, 12 at 0:10
| Oh Man Hoovb! Sorry about that, wanna do mine next? The fog was wonderful this morning, it burnt off by the time I reached Mom's. I still wrestled the wire though, chicken runs..ugh. I hope I can finish it up tomorrow, but betting it takes another day before it is really done. I was thinking it needs a planter box with something thorny on the street side.... |
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| Blimey - I am already in my winter leathers. Have not succumbed to tights with my trousers yet and have managed without a coat, but gloves and scarves have been dragged out of the baskets. Terrible flooding has hit parts of the UK (again) but east anglia is dry, windy and bright. The dahlias are still standing but I am counting days, rather than weeks, until the first killer frosts. Planted garlic today and sowing sweet peas for next year as well as delphs, hardy geraniums and perennial foxgloves. The garden is having a last hurrah though, and is looking fine. |
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- Posted by ken-n.ga.mts 7a/7b (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 1:09
| Been beautiful, if not just a tad chilly in the morning, here for several wks (mornings48/54, late afternoon 75/80). We did have a couple of days of solid rain earlier in the week (5 1/2 " at my place). The cool mornings have slowed the roses down a BUNCH. I pruned everything back in the middle of August over a 2 wk period. Should have a garden full of roses now, right?? NOPE!! I can count on one hand the amount of roses in bloom in the garden. Only about 1/3 of the garden even has color in the buds. The last part of October is going to look great here in the S.E. Smokies. |
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- Posted by Strawberryhill 5a IL (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 10:40
| I need some warm sun from CA for energy... I'm frozen here at 40 degrees, and 32 degrees tonight. I'm going to the Post Office to send some of my roses to CA for better survival. My weather is like Camp: we had non-stop rain for the past 3 days, now I'm in my winter jacket in zone 5a, Chicagoland. |
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- Posted by HerdingCats none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 11:34
| Whoooo Hooo, it's 63* this morning, and overcast, too! With a high of 84* expected. Time to go play in the garden! (And yes, Hoov, I did some house cleaning this week, too. LOL). Best- |
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