To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strawberries
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:50:18 -0500
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:28 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
[ . . .] What Earliglow does not like is intense sun, drying, and
warm temperatures. [ . . .]
One advantage of diversified production is, whatever the weather's
doing, something's happy (maybe it's the strawberries and lettuce, or
maybe it's the sweet potatoes and hot peppers).
The corresponding disadvantage, of course, is: whatever the weather's
doing, something's unhappy.
Some of sun, hot, and dry is modifiable of course, up to a point; easier
to modify than cold, cloudy, and soggy, at least. But there's still
nothing like a good soaking rain when you need one (especially if the
irrigation pond has run dry).
Yours from, currently, under about eleven inches of snow, most of it
fresh; and we're having a heat wave! it made it up to 34ยบ in the shade!