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CL1 A Season with Eros

12 years ago

Astrokath wrote:

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

Dido writes:

Listen for the Trains, Love - Stan Barstow

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veer
12 years ago
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles - Benedict Gummer

(am reading this now; fascinating. Hold on. What's that lump under my arm? I'm sure I have a temperature. Perhaps I'd better go for a lie down or call a priest)
dedtired
12 years ago
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

(maybe a vaccine from one of Henrietta's cells will save you!)
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Jackie and Rosefolly - thanks for replying. I apologize for not explaining myself clearly enough. I'll try again: In January I bought Eden Climber (Pierre de Ronsard), a budded bareroot. I watched some Paul Zimmerman videos & realized that to get the climber to flower all over and not just at the top, it needs to be trained as horizontally as possible. I also asked about the climber on this forum, and Rosefolly & Cupshaped Roses told me they grew theirs as freestanding bushes and kindly uploaded photos. My house is so old that i'm on crack watch - the walls should be kept bare so I can spot every crack as it develops. It wouldn't be wise to cover them with climbing roses. That's why I originally planned to pillar the Eden Cl, but after reading the replies here I decided to grow it as a freestanding bush. BUT, the minute one of Eden's canes was over 3 feet tall, I couldn't resist the temptation (too many gorgeous photos on the Internet of trained Edens in all their glory). So I drove a pole in the ground and tied the cane horizontally as a preliminary to winding it around the pole. It's been a month since, and now that horizontal cane has 4 laterals growing straight up from it. The longest lateral is already 1 foot long, but there's no sign of a bud on it. It doesn't look as if it's going to bloom and somhow it seems too long for a lateral. I know a cane grows from the base of the plant, but I'm wondering if what I've got isn't really laterals but some kind of sub-canes that don't grow from the base but from a main cane? How long are Pierre de Ronsard's laterals? From the photos on the internet they seem shorter but I can't really figure it out. Sorry again, and thanks for any input from those who know the rose.
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My 'Final' 2011 Tomato Grow List
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I sent in the "Santorini of Greece" tomato to the swap. After flooding, extremely high humidity, heat, etc. last summer, the Santorini was one of a handful of plants (out of 40+ varieties) that never showed a hint of disease and when everything else stopped producing during the worst of the heat, it continued to pump out tons of fruit. It definitely was the workhorse in my garden and will certainly be considered for another spot in the garden this season. The fruit is ribbed, probably around 4-6 oz. and was meaty like a paste but much more flavorful than most paste tomatoes I've tasted.
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Gardenrod, Often I'll have 2 or 3 flushes of fruit on determinates and that is fairly typical of many of the determinates in our climate. I hit tomato overload a while back too, but now that production is dwindling, I'm starting to worry about running out of tomatoes. I think most of mine are about done setting fruit---even a lot of the cherry types are stalling. Our highs have been mostly in the 104-107 range for the last couple of weeks, so the tomatoes are not happy campers. Carol, I'm glad Al got to do his ceremony. At the present time our county is not giving burn permits to anyone at all, even though in previous years they have done so (on a limited basis) during a burn ban. In the last 5 days, we have had three large "page all" fires, where all 15 departments in the county are paged out to one large fire. We've never had three page alls in one week before, much less in 5 days. It is too hot to be out there at fires for hours on end. I'd rather be home picking or eating or canning tomatoes or, as far as that goes, I'd rather be home doing anything at all. Scott, If there is a tomato plant that is a more reliable producer in our heat than Fourth of July, I cannot imagine what it would be. Super Boy produces as well for me as Fourth of July but the flavor is nothing to get excited about. Diane, No one in my family but me has had any of the Jaune Flammee' tomatoes this year, because I stand there in the garden and eat them as fast as I can pick them. Dorothy, For me, Tess's has always had amazing flavor. Since you have so much more rainfall than I do here, I wonder if the moisture is affecting their flavor. Dawn
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I planted all of my pepper seeds on March 3. They are in my basement which is around 60F so I put the starter trays on heating pads. So far, the ones that are up are eggplant, Big Jims, Hungarian Wax, Chimayos(Thanks Byron), Manzanos, Poblanos, Billy Bikers, Burpees Hot Mixture and a mixture from Beth at Peppermania. They are now under lights and I've already potted up the eggplant and Billy Bikers. The eggplant won the prize for being 1st. The ones that have not yet sprouted are Sandias and California Wonders. This doesn't surprise me since I remember them taking longer to germinate in previous years. John A
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lemonhead101
12 years ago
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow....Washington Irving
bookmom41
12 years ago
Before I Go To Sleep -- S.J. Watson
leel
12 years ago
Call it Sleep--Henry Roth
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
The Dead - James Joyce
veer
12 years ago
Visions of Heaven and Hell - John Bunyon
J C
12 years ago
The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
(Robert Jordan is the name of the main protagonist)
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Bell Jar....Sylvia Plath
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
leel
12 years ago
The letters of Abelard and Heloise--Peter Abelard
veer
12 years ago
Forbidden Love - S E Cox
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
A Many Splendoured Thing - Han Suyin
J C
12 years ago
The Sunne in Splendor - Sharon Kay Penman
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Sun Also Rises.....Ernest Hemingway
connie_in_western_nc
12 years ago
Goodnight Moon...Margaret Wise Brown
Kath
12 years ago
Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch

My current read.
veer
12 years ago
Adrift in Soho: Beats Bums & Bohemians - Colin Wilson
J C
12 years ago
A Scandal in Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle
dedtired
12 years ago
Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
ladyrose65
12 years ago
Two Women in Particular - Zora Neale Hurston
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
veer
12 years ago
Sailor Beware - Philip King
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Swiss Family Robinson....Johann Weiss
dedtired
12 years ago
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard
lauramarie_gardener
12 years ago
Three Blind Mice - Agatha Christie
ladyrose65
12 years ago
A Jury of her Peers - Susan Glaspell
dido1
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12 years ago
What Katie Did - Susan Coolidge
veer
12 years ago
I Can't Believe She Did That - Nan Mooney
veer
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The Woman Who Did - Grant Allan
lauramarie_gardener
12 years ago
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
ladyrose65
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The Blue Hotel - Stephen Crane
phyllis__mn
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Black and Blue....Anna Quindlen
leel
12 years ago
The Rainbow--D H Lawrence
veer
12 years ago
The Many Coloured Coat - M Callaghan
J C
12 years ago
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
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12 years ago
The Darkest Hour...Maya Banks
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Final Hour....Taylor Caldwell
veer
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One Minute to Midnight - Amy Silver
sheriz6
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Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
The Desperadoes - Stan Barstow
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven's
J C
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Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Water is Wide....Pat Conroy

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