"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> With daily temperatures running up into the middle nineties Farenheit the
> old garden isn't producing a lot. A few tomatoes along, the beets are
> really slowing up (and I so wanted to send some to Barb), so are the
> carrots. The greens are gone, most of the bush beans are shot and it seems
> the eggplant are done early this year. The figs haven't started coming in
> and the kumquats and the lemon tree are blooming like crazy, citrus smell
> all over the backyard. The Japanese persimmon has lost most of its fruit
> and we will be lucky to get any at all. the sunchokes, aka Jerusalem
> artichokes, are producing but we will sieve them out of the soil and sell
> them at the farmers market. Neither of us can tolerate them without a
> whole bottle of Beano inside us. Pity because they are tasty when fresh.
> The blueberries and blackberries are done too. I guess if we could
> zinnias, torenias, and a few other flowers we would be okay but normally
> we only eat the pansies, nastursiums, and violets in a salad.
>
> By the way, how is the weather in El Paso del Norte?
>
> George, who sometimes, in the wee hours, wishes he lived at least one heat
> zone further north
>

Daily temps in the lower 100's, and overwhelming humidity sometimes clear up
to 30%. I can hardly breathe. We siesta during the noonish hours. And my
garden is pretty bare, too. Afraid to plant anything for fear it'll get
scorched between sunrise and sunset.
Edrena