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To: MtnClimber

Yikes! It’s 8am here and a muggy 79. Going to get worse before the day’s out. It’s so humid outside the windows are fogged up. Glad I’m not trying to grow a garden where you are! It’s hard enough here!

OTOH—we can’t grow most apple varieties—they don’t get enough chill hours. That’s the # of hours it stays below freezing. :)


64 posted on 10/10/2009 4:56:21 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: gardengirl

It is 9:20 am and warming up, but still snowing. It has warmed up to 16F from a low last night of 7F. There are many apple trees around here just growing beside the road. I pulled off the road in Eldorado Springs, CO and picked a bunch of apples yesterday. I planted four varieties of apples in the yard this year. Also blueberries, nanking cherries, toka plum, two mount royal plums and two butternut trees. I have to get another red plum variety for cross pollination with the Toka plum. Glad I got the garlic planted when I did! There is a ski area just west of my home (Eldora Ski Resort) and I can even see the runs from my living room. It is the last privately run ski area left in Colorado. It is not very big, but also not too crowded.


73 posted on 10/10/2009 8:32:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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