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Saturday, June 19, 2010
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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all is quiet on the shazzy front after a night of high drama. i watched the bow echo forming in iowa yesterday afternoon on my phone radar and knew we were in for some trouble. that duratio wind storm was impressive on the radar and immpressive in person. the sky turned dark black in the matter of seconds and all hell broke loose at 4:30pm as i watched from inside the house. trees down all through the neighborhood, but i faired pretty good. 10 leaves folded and split at the base of the stalks all together on all 3 plants. and they were all secondary leaves of smaller size on the perimeters. the interior of the plant is pretty mature already and those leaves all had each other to lean on and buffer the wind better. one partially blown over vine on the 873, 4 on the 991, and 3 on the 1147 were easily propped back up. i just bought 10 6' 3/4" plastic stakes to use for my 5 tomato hammocks i intend to use for the keeper megablooms. they were used to gently slide along under 4 or so leaf stalks at once and lft the roll overs back in place. one was put and left on each side of the roll overs for stability after propping up and the small unburied pulled up roots were reburied. i used the misting system in the 93 degree heat a lot yesterday so the ground was saturated already. this was good cuz those roots slid out easily and were not damaged and reburied. then round 2 came. but it lost its punch right before arriving and was just another 1" or so of rain. plants look great this morning and i removed the sweatshirts i had covering the little ones in case of sideways hail that the patio tables might not fully protect. staying out of the patch today and letting things heal.
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