MB> When the weather really heats up, peppers and tomatoes will
MB> benefit from some afternoon shade.  I don't think beans would do
MB> very well in partial shade. Mostly veggies that you don't  grow
MB> for the fruit.  Carrots might do ok with partial shade.  Onions
MB> need to be planted in late Oct. or Nov. Then bulb around March.
MB> I don't think they do well in shade.  I did plant some leeks
MB> last year and they lived through the summer, because of shade
MB> from a nearby tree.
Well, it looks like pepper and tomatoes then! I'm starting my tomato seeds 
this weekend so I can get them out early - is that right for here?
MB> MM> Are the sugar snap peas the ones used in Oriental cooking - the pods
MB> MM> with  almost no peas in them? I like pea pods in my stir fry.
MB> 
MB> No they aren't the same. The sugar snaps aren't flat like the
MB> oriental ones. They are round, have thick pods. THe oriental ones
MB> are snow peas.  You can find frozen sugar snap peas in the
MB> grocery store. Maybe you could try them and see if you like them.
MB> They're also good raw with dip.   The sugar snaps are also good
MB> in stir fries.
Well, it's Melting Sugar that I planted last weekend, so I guess we'll find 
out if I like them!  Are the peas themselves also edible? Hubby likes 
peas, I like pods - I'm hoping for a dual harvest on these things.
MB> Yeah it takes years to build up the soil to half way decent. It
MB> helps if you keep it mulched. I usually just mulch with grass
MB> clippings.
In New Mexico, there was no grass to get clippings from.  I used bark 
mulch - the weight would help to keep most of the topsoil from blowing 
away. We got 30-60mph winds for about a month in the spring (day after day 
after day of wind - ugh) - that would either blow away the good soil I'd 
been cultivating, or cover it with a few inches of sand every year.  
It was depressing to garden in the desert.
Here in the Orlando area, we just get occassional winds from nearby 
hurricaines - at least last year it wasn't too bad.  But the greatest 
thing of all is we get rain, and lots of it!
Oh... I have a lawn question - it looks like whatever grass is grown in our 
neighborhood dies back every winter (ours along with everyone else's)... 
when does it start "waking up" and becoming green again? We need to reseed 
some areas that were weedy during the summer and died back completely now - 
when should we do that?
Thanks, Michele
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