Freeze Warnings in Miami, Florida
We have freeze warnings tonight. They expect 27* inland. We'll see.
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applestar
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Glad to hear your garden came through OK.
Is this colder than normal? I think our temps have been lower than usual for December up here. Last year, we were starting to get all that snow, which actually helped. This year, dry AND too cold, I'm worried that somethings in my garden won't make it through the winter.
Is this colder than normal? I think our temps have been lower than usual for December up here. Last year, we were starting to get all that snow, which actually helped. This year, dry AND too cold, I'm worried that somethings in my garden won't make it through the winter.
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thanrose
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I usually go swimming, maybe body surfing, at Ponce Inlet on Christmas Day. I just don't tell northerners that I wear a wetsuit.
OTOH, I just bought some beautiful Ruskin tomatoes from the Daytona flea market, so we know their fields have survived any chill. A little south of Tampa, isn't it (Ruskin)? I think the pomegranate I bought was local, relatively speaking, too. But a neighbor's mango is sheared back yet again with the frosts we had. We're too subtropical to grow mango, yet people still try.
OTOH, I just bought some beautiful Ruskin tomatoes from the Daytona flea market, so we know their fields have survived any chill. A little south of Tampa, isn't it (Ruskin)? I think the pomegranate I bought was local, relatively speaking, too. But a neighbor's mango is sheared back yet again with the frosts we had. We're too subtropical to grow mango, yet people still try.
Too bad both of my parents have passed on...they would have been *stunned* to learn that I was Cuban!Garf wrote:Mango does fine in Miami the local rednecks call the Cubans "mango munchers".
Since neither of them had ever been there or had (even very distant) relatives from there.I LOVE LOVE LOVE mangoes. When they're in season, I've been known to go to Ranch 99 (an Asian-influenced supermarket) and purchase a flat of mangoes, all for myself, since DH doesn't eat them. I have to peel them very near running water, though; if I leave the juice on my hands very long, they break out with welts and terrible itching.
But eating the mango itself is nothing but YUMMMMM.
Cynthia H.
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