Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

I think that the main point we should remember is that, since we've never been in this situation before, NOBODY KNOWS what is going to happen.  The models are just that - models - guesses, based on observed science.  In one sense the wisest attitude is the same your Grandmother told you - hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

 

PS - Central Texas just had the coldest Easter on record, about 35 degrees last night.  Sleet & snow yesterday!

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: TradingPostPaul

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:42 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] UN, world scientists concensus on global warming

Good - maybe. They caution us to avoid chalking up local variations to
global climate change (i.e., no hurricanes made landfall last year on US
east coast). My point was simply that growers of all sorts need to plan to
cope with more severe or unpredictable weather in the not too distant
future, including temperature and precip.

Just got over a spell of snow and sleet here in high desert central New
Mexico, basically forced us to move our germination flats from the seedling
greenhouse into an inside storeroom to get 70 degrees. Tomatoes, peppers,
eggplant, melons, squash. Now to keep the cats off those shelves ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/8/2007 at 5:12 PM pete wrote:

>We, in the UK are at the moment basking in wall to wall sunshine with
>temperatures in the 70's, as if the weather is 4 to 6 wks in front of
>itself.
>Pete
>
>>(FYI: causes and remedies if any are controversial. but the fact it's
>>happening is known worldwide - paul tradingpost@lobo.net )
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