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Skriven 2007-11-02 20:00:49 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: AHHH 296  71102
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 >  -=> Quoting Barbara Mcnay to Glen Jamieson <=-

 >>> Really great to be able to walk out the back door and
 >>> pick ripe tomatoes, the year round.
 >>  BM> I should imagine!  Was this where you live now, in Adelaide?
 >> Very close; only a few blocks away.  Adelaide is about
 >> the same latitude as Los Angeles, with a similar climate.

 >  BM> It's a little hard to tell on my weather map without latitude lines,
 >  BM> but it looks to me as if I'm farther South than any part of California,
 >  BM> here about 60 miles North of Austin.  I might be able to try something
 >  BM> like that.

 > Yes, you are a bit further south than the southern
 > edge of California.
 > If you don't have frosts you might be able to keep
 > plants going for
 > years.  From my limited experience in Texas, (staying
 > in Houston and
 > previously visiting Austin and San Antonio) I observed
 > a quite high
 > summer humidity, which would probably encourage fungal
 > diseases.

This area tends to be dry in the summers.

 >> Texas and Mexico in August this year were quite pleasant for me.

 >  BM> Yes, my impression was that this August was about 10 degrees
 >  BM> Fahrenheit cooler than last year.

 > The last summer here was cooler than usual, and my
 > bananas didn't
 > produce any fruit at all.  So far this summer is late,
 > with some
 > unseasonable late showers after a record dry winter.

My experience in Houston suggested that bananas seldom produced unless they had
a sheltered location, as there were frosts there.  I'm of the impression that
San Antonio is warmer and more humid than Houston.

 >> produced a large,
 >> cut-up tomato for us to taste.  She said it was called
 >> an "Ugly
 >> Tomato", and it certainly was rather irrregular in
 >> shape, but the
 >> flavour was everything we wanted.  We bought more than

 >  BM> I recall reading something about those fairly recently.  It seems that
 >  BM> their blossoms each have multiple ovaries, which causes the irregular
 >  BM> shape.

 > Possible.  Once cut up into the salad, the shape was
 > irrelevant, but
 > the flavour was good.  A very simple salad, with
 > sliced red onion,
 > fresh basil leaves and Balsamic vinegar, which relied
 > on the
 > ingredients to be of good quality.


YMMH!--You're making me hungry!

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