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It has been hot in the Bay Area. Despite the recent installation of insulation, my studio was sweltering today. I told the painters that if the indoor temperature went over 95 degrees, we would all go home early. (It only got to 92.)
After work, I gave my garden a good watering, and as I was messing with the compost pile I noticed a strange sensation on my ankle. A snail was climbing up my leg.
Considering how sweaty I was, I think that snail must have been trying to use the salt on my legs to commit suicide.
It has been hot in the Bay Area. Despite the recent installation of insulation, my studio was sweltering today. I told the painters that if the indoor temperature went over 95 degrees, we would all go home early. (It only got to 92.)
After work, I gave my garden a good watering, and as I was messing with the compost pile I noticed a strange sensation on my ankle. A snail was climbing up my leg.
Considering how sweaty I was, I think that snail must have been trying to use the salt on my legs to commit suicide.
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The Wandering B's
Who have wandered back to Hong Kong as you can probably tell by the red dots over our way.
Weather reminds me of the opposite of living in Sweden as a kid, where they'd cancel school if it got to -30 C. Damn temperature always leveled out at around -27.
-- Ryan
Actually, if the gardens gets anymore water in it, the pumpkins will explode. The tomatoes are splitting open, like my grapes, and necessiate instant attention. Making wine tomorrow at the neighbors, as well as hurridly dropping off garden produce at peoples back doors and then stealthily sneaking off. When we get home we find out that other neighbors have done the same to us. I think the tomatoes here never get eaten, they just travel all over York and Gettysburg.
If you would like some seeds for your garden next year, let me know. It is safe to grow sunflowers in your patch, and if you do this for 3 years in a row, then haul off the roots, heads, seeds and stalks each year, it will remove enough toxins from your soil that in the 4th year you can grow yer own produce.
Lucky you to have snails! I found frogs as well as voles in the pumpkin patches here, as I suspect the voles are busy working on hollowing one out for the winter. Found someone to buy my gourds for next year.
Gourds would probably grow VERY well in your patch, if you had grape vines growing there in the past.
Annalisa