Bending over seems to be a thing of the past for lots of us'ns..... my neighbor bought a fridge with the freezer on the bottom so she could sit in her rolling chair and get stuff out of the fridge part without having to bend over......do ya think that's why we're now seeing so many of the fridges with the freezer on the bottom? paulette in sw fla usa well, for one thing - we likely won't have to worry about opening the fridge and bending over cuz we're not going to be able to afford any food to put inside!!! On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:20 PM, <askgranny@juno.com> wrote: > My sister over in the MO boot heel says they don't have hardly any bees > either..>Even the carpenter bees...look like bumblers and drill holes in > rafters, etc.. are missing...No honeybees, few bumblers......We are still > getting mostly shriveling squash, as they aren't being pollinated.....We > pick them as soon as they bloom....Bean blooms are falling off because of > the heat OR not being pollinated.....Theres a clover patch at one end of > the garden and we saw 5 or 6 honey bees there yesterday morning...all at > one time.......Don't know why they couldn't fly a few yards further and > pollinate our squash..I told hubby to tap the cornstalks gently to > pollinate the silks...Each silk must be pollinated or you get skips in > the corn cobs 'rows'....I also told him if a cornstalk shows no sign of > an ear and is tasseling, we might just as well take it out...If an ear > comes on later and the tassel has already shed all it's pollen...it's a > lost cause...Am I right ? Theres a tall Abelia hedge in front of the > house and plenty of insects are visiting it...but mostly bumble bee > types, and those hummingbird moths, I think they're called...Look like a > cross between a bumble bee and a humming bird...... > > We harvested most of the little white multiplying onions and set up 3 > large tomato cages the neighbor gave us...Planted Half runner pole beans > on one and cucumbers on the other..>Didn't bother to check days to > harvest, so .....Had plenty of seed...open spaces, so ventured it...We > will probably never grow bush beans again....Neither of us should bend > over a lot......Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~ > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:52:38 -0400 "Mary R Mungo" <MRMungo@Comporium.net> > writes: > > I don't think I've seen anybody on here for several days... Is > > everybody out > > in the garden or gone on vacation? > ____________________________________________________________ > Daily Instant Win Prizes! > Enter for your chance to WIN one of hundreds of daily prizes. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7VJ8AUpX26Q6DUh0hcG9XZQCAoTQh68RvWu8F0z5FQcZ8Ms/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >