It would be useful, where follks are posting, if they indicated their location & tyupe of climate.
I keep intending to do that in my siganture but haven't quite got control of my newsreader yet. (Forte Agent - very versatile but a bit complex in the options dept.)
Here goes another try.
Alexander Miller, Vancouver Island; Zone 7-8ish? Soggy winters, baked dry summers. Shallow topsoil, blue clay beneath. Using mostly raised beds :) Alexander Miller,Vancouver Island; Zone 7-8ish? Shallow topsoil, blue clay beneath. Soggy winters, baked dry summers. Using mostly raised beds :)
Ah, you're on the old Agent 1.9, so I kinda forget where the signatures are. On 3.3 it's under Tools/Options/Posting Messages/Signatures. If you include '-- ' (that's hyphen hyphen space) at the beginning of your sig most proper newsreaders will delete your sig when someone wants to reply to you (no one needs multilined signatures repeated over and over in a thread).
climatic or numbered zone ereferences are a rough guide, as most of us in what ever zone/climate we are in have micro-climates, that is why one gardener in a community may be able to do what another can't.
snipped With peace and brightest of blessings,
len & bev
-- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand."
While I think that is a good idea to put SOME information in your sig line too much info is just as bad as no info. I would much rather see a sig line that contains the link to the person's web site (if they have one). You can get a lot of good ideas from looking at posters' web site and, usually, find out all about their location.
John, John, John, stand tall and proud, and say it out loud
East Bay is Oakland (Is the city's motto really, "Come Back, We weren't Shooting at You"?) and Beezerkly, cultural and intellectual Mecca's of the Left Coast, respectively.
You don't want to go identifying yourself with them quiche munchin', chardonnay guzzlin' beatniks and hippies of San Francisco, who are always lost in the fog do you? That is fog . . . isn't it?
John, Forestville, up by Santa Rosa, north of the "City". I hope your back is from too much fun in the garden. Sometimes I can get rid of back problems by lying on my back and then crunching up and pointing my elbow at the opposite knee, 10 or 20 times. It twists your spine and puts tracion on it at the same time. If you have a bad disk though, forget I said anything. Whatcha growin'?
That's a nice area, I did some Refereeing up there just a few weeks ago, and have toured the gardens in SR, and Chas. Schultz' home. I avoid the vineyards, though!
I am pretty much pot bound. Err, I see how doubly ambiguous that is. What I mean is, I currently rent, so everything except jade plants and ivy, is in a pot or planter. No veggies, nothing bigger than a ficus at six feet. I can't wait to get back into real soil, but maybe now is not the time.
All of the Bay area is or, was, nice. But the traffic is way out of control. River Road used to be a sleepy little thoroughfare now I need to wait a couple of minutes for the traffic to clear so that I can get on. I agree about the vineyards. They used to be mom and pop run affairs and you could stop in, taste the wine and, have a bit of a chin wag with the owners. These days the wine hasn't improved that much, they charge you $5 minimum to taste some pretty ordinary wines or $20 to taste the good stuff. And then your talking to some smily-faced youth that is telling you that the nondescript wine in your glass has assertive flavors of cassis, violets and, pomegranates and is full-bodied and, robust and, practically a steal at $35/bottle. And then, no matter how good your wine is, if Robert Parker doesn't give it 90 points, it is difficult to sell. Me? I only go into wineries when they pay me to.
North of here, people are very pot bound. At $5,000/lb your not likely to talk them out of the notion. The DEA must have a small army up in Mendocino and Humbolt Counties. Buy pot, California's #1 agricultural product and, keep California green. Between the pot, the abalone poaching and, the mushroom poaching, the forest rangers up here need roller skates to keep-up with what's going on.
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