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   Frank <"frank to Michael Trew   
   Re: still too cold here   
   25 Apr 22 12:39:22   
   
   From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 4/22/2022 10:08 PM, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > On 4/22/2022 19:20, T wrote:   
   >> On 4/19/22 10:10, Michael Trew wrote:   
   >>> On 4/12/2022 4:36, T wrote:   
   >>>> On 3/27/22 08:12, songbird wrote:   
   >>>>> last night got down pretty cold and we had a bit of snow so   
   >>>>> there won't be any gardening for a few weeks at least.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> also a lot of rain a few days ago, ground is way too wet for   
   >>>>> me to be out there doing much.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> this time of the year it is mostly a matter of waiting and   
   >>>>> trying to get a few projects done before the weather gets nice   
   >>>>> enough again.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> eventually peas and onion sets will go in. sometime in the   
   >>>>> next three weeks. i hope. :)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> songbird   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It snowed here today   
   >>>   
   >>> Snow today in Eastern Ohio as well.  Should melt by tomorrow, but   
   >>> there's some slight accumulation.   
   >>   
   >> Snow again. The weeds are LOVING IT. Your   
   >> weeds out in force yet?   
   >   
   > Yes, I have lots of whiskey weed (knotwood?) popping up again.  I've   
   > been very hesitant to use Roundup, but I'm seriously consider it,   
   > because I'm absolutely sick of the stuff taking over my hillside every   
   > year, no matter how often I sickle it (the hill drops off to a busy   
   > road, WAY too steep to mow).   
   >   
   > Tomorrow is 80 degrees, same as Sunday.  First nice weather of the year,   
   > in my opinion.  I'm loving it!  Time to hack down some old overgrowth at   
   > my new garage (separate parcel from my house a few blocks away) before   
   > the vines and thorns take over again -- it hadn't been maintained in a   
   > decade before myself and my step father bought it at Sheriff's sale.   
      
   I am fighting weeds an banks but do not want to kill the stuff that   
   belongs there and have been trying Preen.  I put it on before using   
   premerg on the lawn as some weeds come in early.   
      
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