Green Thumb: Looking ahead to the Summer vegetable garden
Tom Glasgow
In last week’s discussion of cold weather protection for the winter vegetable garden, I mentioned that hot weather brings challenges as well. We naturally associate summer heat with increased disease, insect and weed pressure. But heat also represents a physiological stress, with high temperatures impacting both fruit set and fruit quality.
In a July 2016 article, Area Extension Agent Lisa Rayburn notes that as daytime temperatures rise over 90ºF to 95ºF and nighttime temperatures above 70º to 75º, fruit set in many vegetables declines and in some cases stops. This is partially due to poor pollen or sterile pollen production warm nights. As Lisa observes, this is a very common issue in coastal areas where the evenings do tend to stay warm.
By Jerry Redfern, Capital and Main |
January 9, 2021
Later this month, New Mexico lawmakers will have another chance to fix an economic problem that has plagued the state for decades.
“For at least 40 years people in the state government and the Legislature have known that they are overly dependent on oil and gas for state revenue,” says Jim Peach, regents professor of economics at New Mexico State University.
Right now, more than 40 percent of the state’s income relies on the boom-and-bust fortunes of oil and gas. Now, according to a trio of New Mexico’s leading economists, the time has come to change course.