To: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:11:23 -0800 (PST)
I have shade, rock yards are still hotter than grass yards. In the summer,
if you walk across a grass yard, put down your hand; the grass will feeler
cooler than the 114 degree air. If you do the same thing with a rock yeard,
you will burn your hand. You can feel the heat radiating off of desert
landscaping in the same way it does from concrete ...bobford
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 9:04 AM
> > My houses faces west, the worst possible direction in
> phx. If I had dsert landscaping the rocks would absorb the
> western sun all afternoon , making my house/property hotter
> during the already hot days, and then throw part of it
> toward the house in the evening , making it even harder to
> cool the house.....bobford
>
> The key is not the ground but the shade. Mesquite trees are
> well adapted here. They shade the ground, whether that
> ground is covered with grass or gravel.
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