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Article #413Re: Close to Spring
From: atec77
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:58
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:58
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On 28/07/2011 7:51 AM, rainman@mailinator.com wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:25:21 +1000, "FarmI"<ask@itshall be given> wrote: > >>>> I figured out how many weeks till Spring and how many tasks I had to do >>>> in >>>> the garden before the wqrmer weather comes. I'm pretty much on track. >>>> You? >>>> >>> >>> Spring starts on Thursday at my Sinney residence. That's my estimate as >>> to when my prunus >>> blieriana will start flowering. ;-) >> >> For years I've checked up on a particular prunus on a road I travel >> sometimes each winter. For about 30 years this particular tree has always >> flowered at least 2 months before the warm weather arrives. I always look >> out for it when I'm driving down that road and it never fails to cheer me up >> when I see it in bloom. >> >> Do you start planting when your prunus flowers or do you still ahve to wait >> a few weeks? >> >> Despite 1/9 supposedly being 'Spring',I know that there is no way I can >> plant anything I please just because the date tells me it's spring - 1/10 is >> more like the real time I can plant with any degree of certainty. >> > I've already started planting the veges. Tomatoes and carrots are in, possums are being > hunted down before other things go in. > My Garlic is 35cm high and thriving -- X-No-Archive: Yes
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