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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

I sure wish my corn was doing as well as yours !!  
 
I didn't think I was even going to get any ears the corn is so short.  But I 
do have ears on most plants.....  I going to guess that some ears are too 
close to the ground and won't develop right,,,, but then a few weeks ago I 
didn't think I'd have any ears after I saw your post on how tall your corn 
is/was.
 
I was just out checking the pumpkins.  I can't believe how fast that stuff 
grows.  I have to pick up runners and train them to grow in certain 
directions since I seriously misjudged how far they will spread out.
 
They really need to make veggie gardening classes a requirement in all public 
and private schools........... 
 
 
 
--- On Wed, 7/8/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:



Yesterday, at 4 in the afternoon, it was 78 degrees here in NW GA. 
Very, very odd.  Right now, it is about 85, which is more the 
normal-will probably get to 90 before the day is out, and that is about 
normal.

Leslie wrote:
> Please send that to Al Gore.....
>  
> I think the meteorologist I listen to is much better..... she said 
> increased rains for your area and likely cyclical global cooling phase has 
> begun again... confirmation comes later.
>  
> It was 57 here this a/m in the desert, and the other morning it was 
> actually chilly for a while in the early a/m and I closed some of the 
> windows.
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Summer hasn't arrived here yet (or maybe it came and went and I missed it). 
> We get into the 70's during the day, but drop into the 40's some nights. 
> 
> 
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Don't feel bad. This is the 2nd year in a row that not one of my corn seeds 
germinated. The first year I thought it might have been birds so this year I 
covered the small plot with a wooden frame covered in aluminum screening. 
Nothing dug under the frame and the screening is still intact but not a 
seedling in sight. ( the variety was Bloody Butcher and I either have to try 
a new supplier or go for a different type next year)

I finally used up the space for transplanting a few squash seedlings that 
came up on their own and moved a few other plants from my very over crowded 
bed. I don't think they liked being moved, but at least last night a few of 
the leaves were above the ground instead of laying on it.

Hopefully you'll have better luck moving the runners then I have in the past. 
Whether it's trying to move tomato branches or trying to train bean vines I 
always end up breaking them off.

As for teaching in school, would you have retained anything they taught you? 
Speaking for myself I don't think I cared enough about where my food came 
from until we bought our first home when I was 30. Outside of grade 9 typing 
and my love for history and a couple of very close friends, I can't think of 
too many things I've retained from my school days.

Gil


On Jul 8, 2009, cayadopi AT yahoo.com wrote:
I sure wish my corn was doing as well as yours !!

I didn't think I was even going to get any ears the corn is so short.  But I 
do have ears on most plants.....  I going to guess that some ears are too 
close to the ground and won't develop right,,,, but then a few weeks ago I 
didn't think I'd have any ears after I saw your post on how tall your corn 
is/was.

I was just out checking the pumpkins.  I can't believe how fast that stuff 
grows.  I have to pick up runners and train them to grow in certain 
directions since I seriously misjudged how far they will spread out.

They really need to make veggie gardening classes a requirement in all public 
and private schools...........