Cool Season in South Texas

[tlintx]

I should buy a weather thermometer. We were predicted to get 100' today and now they're saying it's 78. I had read that at least some of the existing weather stations are not functioning as well as they used to or are in different conditions now than when they were established (say, over a parking lot now when before it was a field).

So much for peppers and eggplant! It's also raining just enough that you can't say it's not raining. Gotta love it! And if I run out and plant onions and carrots we'll be in for another heat wave!

I think I will try and hunt down some garlic bulbs for this year. I have the space and supplies and we sure use it.

I slept through that last hurricane, but I was assured by the natives that "it was no big deal" and "that tree hardly even touched the window" of the room I was sleeping in.

Originally Posted by tlintx

I should buy a weather thermometer. We were predicted to get 100' today and now they're saying it's 78. I had read that at least some of the existing weather stations are not functioning as well as they used to or are in different conditions now than when they were established (say, over a parking lot now when before it was a field).

So much for peppers and eggplant! It's also raining just enough that you can't say it's not raining. Gotta love it! And if I run out and plant onions and carrots we'll be in for another heat wave!

I think I will try and hunt down some garlic bulbs for this year. I have the space and supplies and we sure use it.

I slept through that last hurricane, but I was assured by the natives that "it was no big deal" and "that tree hardly even touched the window" of the room I was sleeping in.

I planted carrots in the garlic bed after I harvested the garlic. They have grown well in the high heat of summer and should be ready to harvest before the first frost. I've never grown carrots well trying to grow them by common gardening wisdom. I planted them in the wrong season and they are doing very well.

I think it was Hurricane Ike that hit Galveston Island and Houston direct a few years ago. My wife and I drove down to Galveston a few months after the Hurricane. On the Island, they had concrete steps from the beach up the seawall. Each set of steps had solid steel pipe for handrails. The handrails were bent like pretzels from the force of the waves. We rode the ferry over to Bolivar Peninsula. It is essentially a thirty mile island between the intercoastal waterway and the gulf of Mexico. It used to have a small town named Port Bolivar. The island was fifty percent covered with million dollar homes and resorts. After the hurricane, it was simply thirty miles of sand, no homes were left and Bolivar was gone. The power of hurricanes is hard to imagine.It scoured the sandy bottom of the ocean near Galveston revealing the remains of ships that had disappeared in storms hundreds of years ago.

Ted