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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I mail ordered some tomato and pepper plants from a lady in the South via 
Ebay, this June, just to see what might happen.  The evening I planted them , 
the temp never dropped below 100 degrees the next two days were both 116 + , 
the plants didn't survive half way into the second day.  I didn't think they 
would but, it was an experiment.

Where you used to live is quickly becoming part of the new downtown Grand 
Ave. Arts District (shhh.. arty people smoke pot_ I have a Navajo friend down 
there who is a painter--painted a mural inside the Heard Museum)

I live a bit closer to the park on the other side.  You might have heard of 
me, I'm the old ugly guy whose stupid dog got him temporarily banned from 
eating at Hamburger Works on 15th Ave and Thomas. ,,,bobford


--- On Mon, 7/21/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] getting plant stock in phx at the right time.
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:40 PM
> When my brother lived in Phx he used to have a problem with
> mail order plants, because they never could understand the
> climate.. they tended to send stuff out when they would
> normally send to the rest of the country.
> 
> Bob, if you are close to Encanto park we might have been
> neighbors a couple years ago.. I lived on Culver St of 15th
> Ave.
> Van Dell
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/21/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > You can't even buy nursery stock in the summer,
> Gene, 
> > All it takes is 2-3 back-to-back 115 + degree days to
> kill
> > every plant.  I've had a few plants to survive the
> > summer, some years.  Uusually they don't.  And, to
> > answer your question, I have been doing this for too
> many
> > years. Using shade cloth and anything else I can think
> of
> > to defeat the sun.
> > 
> >  Usually I just wait for the nursery stock to show up
> at
> > the end of the summer, but it has been showing up so
> late
> > the past few years , I wanted to get an early start
> this
> > fall by planting seeds inside now....bobford
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Gene GeRue
> > <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and
> > vegetables from seed for the fall
> > > To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> > > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:14 PM
> > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:08 PM, bob ford wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 'half a block from Encanto
> Park....I'm
> > > planting for fall...bobford
> > > 
> > > Have you done this before? I am curious
> especially
> > about
> > > tomatoes. In  
> > > Phoenix I have taken tomatoes through the winter
> that
> > were
> > > planted in  
> > > the previous spring. They just keep growing.
> > 
> > 
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