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[Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>]

I live very close to the edge.
One of the reasons we moved here was so that we would hurt less if something 
like this happened. We would be able to be more self sufficient and less 
dependent on commerce.
I've always been more of a wannabe, but it kind of looks like my practice 
will soon be put to the test. If Beck is right, and we are looking into the 
pit of the Great Depression then I may not be a list member much longer.  I 
consider internet connectivity a luxury.  I also consider my television a 
luxury.  Those two things will be the first to go.  Then, it will be the 
phone.  Finally, power.  In a worst case scenario, it will take everything we 
can do to make the mortgage should DH lose his job.  If there is no credit, 
then folks won't be buying too many cars, or fixing them at the dealership.  
I'm not sure what we would do....obviously, he'd do some shadetree work, 
woodworking, etc., but is that enough to save the farm if there is no regular 
income? I could rent the pasture out..clean houses or whatever...
What about you all?




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bob ford wrote:

> Shade cloth wouldn't help I don't think, for fall --use it much
> toward late spring/summer; plants are not wilty, the sun itself isn't
> that bad (not to me, anyway) But the ambient temperature is still
> around 100 degrees.

Wilting is just lack of water.  If they aren't wilting, then they are getting 
enough water.  The shade cloth is not to diminish scald or sunburn or 
whatever you want to call it, its purpose it to create a cooler microclimate 
for your tomatoes, to lower the ambient temperature the way misting would, so 
that the plant's pollen remains viable.

 most time was way too hot.
> 
> I have several peppers, 4 okra and a quash.  Okra has big , pretty
> flowers.
> 
Okra loves the heat...





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I see.  If temp. doesn't drop  in few days will mist some shadecloth, then. 
....... Thanks bobford


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomatoes not fruiting
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:23 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> 
> > Shade cloth wouldn't help I don't think, for
> fall --use it much
> > toward late spring/summer; plants are not wilty, the
> sun itself isn't
> > that bad (not to me, anyway) But the ambient
> temperature is still
> > around 100 degrees.
> 
> Wilting is just lack of water.  If they aren't
> wilting, then they are getting enough water.  The shade
> cloth is not to diminish scald or sunburn or whatever you
> want to call it, its purpose it to create a cooler
> microclimate for your tomatoes, to lower the ambient
> temperature the way misting would, so that the plant's
> pollen remains viable.
> 
>  most time was way too hot.
> > 
> > I have several peppers, 4 okra and a quash.  Okra has
> big , pretty
> > flowers.
> > 
> Okra loves the heat...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       
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