We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of 'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1 zucchini. My early
girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more heat tolerant versions are kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the first time. Shortly
time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes, 2 banana peppers
today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning curve as ecpected.
On 7/3/2024 11:13 AM, cshenk wrote:
We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of
'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1 zucchini.
My early girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more
heat tolerant versions are
kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the first
time. Shortly time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes, 2
banana peppers today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning
curve as ecpected.
We've been seeing temps in the high 990's here for
several weeks now
.Raining infrequently so I've been watering about every 3
or 4 days in the morning before it gets hot . I'm using
well water , city water would cost us a fortune . It costs
me about 20 cents per hour for a guesstimated 250 gallons
.
My garden is going bonkers , everything has just
exploded in the last
3 weeks . My tomato plants are all loaded , the cucumber
is producing well , and I can hardly wait for the green
beans to start producing . I've already picked one nice 8"
zucchini , just gotta decide how I want to use it . It's
about to get real busy for my wife . I do the growin' ,
she does the cannin' .
Snag wrote:
On 7/3/2024 11:13 AM, cshenk wrote:
We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of
'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1 zucchini.
My early girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more
heat tolerant versions are
kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the first
time. Shortly time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes, 2
banana peppers today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning
curve as ecpected.
We've been seeing temps in the high 990's here for
several weeks now
.Raining infrequently so I've been watering about every 3
or 4 days in the morning before it gets hot . I'm using
well water , city water would cost us a fortune . It costs
me about 20 cents per hour for a guesstimated 250 gallons
.
My garden is going bonkers , everything has just
exploded in the last
3 weeks . My tomato plants are all loaded , the cucumber
is producing well , and I can hardly wait for the green
beans to start producing . I've already picked one nice 8"
zucchini , just gotta decide how I want to use it . It's
about to get real busy for my wife . I do the growin' ,
she does the cannin' .
I'm ~90 miles NW of Carol, so I'm getting the same heat
and humidity numbers as she is, minus the off shore breezes
from the ocean and bay that she's getting.
I've got green tomatoes on five of my six tomato plants,
plus one red one on the Supersweet 100 bush that I'll be
eating later this morning.
The weird thing is the Jelly Bean tomato plant has lots
of little tomatoes, but they don't look right. I've grown
this variety for years, but these look like mutants. Lobed
tomatoes (some look like accordians!) and they seem to be
turning yellow instead of red. (Yeah, I know there is a
yellow Jelly Bean variety, but the seed package shows
red ones.) And those yellow tomatoes aren't ripening; they're
hard as rocks. :/
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
My dwarf sugar snap peas are gasping their last, but I'm
allowing them to mature and dry on the vines since I can't
get these seeds anymore. I'll save these and use them for
my fall crop plus next spring. Variety: Patio Pride in
case anyone sees them from a source other than Scheepers.
New seeds planted and growing for Adelaide carrots and
White Sweet Spanish onions. Still waiting for the new
shallot seeds to germinate.
Lots of herbs still going, but the pansy plants a neighbor
gave me have given up the ghost. In spite of the shady
place I gave them, I guess they couldn't handle the heat
and humidity. :(
Whew!
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
Nyssa, who will now wait for reports from other locations
Snag wrote:
On 7/3/2024 11:13 AM, cshenk wrote:
We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of
'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1 zucchini.
My early girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more
heat tolerant versions are
kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the first
time. Shortly time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes, 2
banana peppers today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning
curve as ecpected.
We've been seeing temps in the high 990's here for
several weeks now
.Raining infrequently so I've been watering about every 3
or 4 days in the morning before it gets hot . I'm using
well water , city water would cost us a fortune . It costs
me about 20 cents per hour for a guesstimated 250 gallons
.
My garden is going bonkers , everything has just
exploded in the last
3 weeks . My tomato plants are all loaded , the cucumber
is producing well , and I can hardly wait for the green
beans to start producing . I've already picked one nice 8"
zucchini , just gotta decide how I want to use it . It's
about to get real busy for my wife . I do the growin' ,
she does the cannin' .
I'm ~90 miles NW of Carol, so I'm getting the same heat
and humidity numbers as she is, minus the off shore breezes
from the ocean and bay that she's getting.
I've got green tomatoes on five of my six tomato plants,
plus one red one on the Supersweet 100 bush that I'll be
eating later this morning.
The weird thing is the Jelly Bean tomato plant has lots
of little tomatoes, but they don't look right. I've grown
this variety for years, but these look like mutants. Lobed
tomatoes (some look like accordians!) and they seem to be
turning yellow instead of red. (Yeah, I know there is a
yellow Jelly Bean variety, but the seed package shows
red ones.) And those yellow tomatoes aren't ripening; they're
hard as rocks. :/
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
My dwarf sugar snap peas are gasping their last, but I'm
allowing them to mature and dry on the vines since I can't
get these seeds anymore. I'll save these and use them for
my fall crop plus next spring. Variety: Patio Pride in
case anyone sees them from a source other than Scheepers.
New seeds planted and growing for Adelaide carrots and
White Sweet Spanish onions. Still waiting for the new
shallot seeds to germinate.
Lots of herbs still going, but the pansy plants a neighbor
gave me have given up the ghost. In spite of the shady
place I gave them, I guess they couldn't handle the heat
and humidity. :(
Whew!
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
Nyssa, who will now wait for reports from other locations
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
My dwarf sugar snap peas are gasping their last, but I'm
allowing them to mature and dry on the vines since I can't
get these seeds anymore. I'll save these and use them for
my fall crop plus next spring. Variety: Patio Pride in
case anyone sees them from a source other than Scheepers.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
Nyssa, who will now wait for reports from other locations
Nyssa wrote:
Snag wrote:
On 7/3/2024 11:13 AM, cshenk wrote:
We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of
'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1
zucchini.
My early girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more
heat tolerant versions are
kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the
first
time. Shortly time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes,
2 banana peppers today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning
curve as ecpected.
We've been seeing temps in the high 990's here for
several weeks now
.Raining infrequently so I've been watering about every
3 or 4 days in the morning before it gets hot . I'm
using well water , city water would cost us a fortune .
It costs me about 20 cents per hour for a guesstimated
250 gallons .
My garden is going bonkers , everything has just
exploded in the last
3 weeks . My tomato plants are all loaded , the
cucumber is producing well , and I can hardly wait for
the green beans to start producing . I've already
picked one nice 8" zucchini , just gotta decide how I
want to use it . It's about to get real busy for my
wife . I do the growin' , she does the cannin' .
I'm ~90 miles NW of Carol, so I'm getting the same heat
and humidity numbers as she is, minus the off shore
breezes from the ocean and bay that she's getting.
I've got green tomatoes on five of my six tomato plants,
plus one red one on the Supersweet 100 bush that I'll be
eating later this morning.
The weird thing is the Jelly Bean tomato plant has lots
of little tomatoes, but they don't look right. I've grown
this variety for years, but these look like mutants.
Lobed tomatoes (some look like accordians!) and they seem
to be turning yellow instead of red. (Yeah, I know there
is a yellow Jelly Bean variety, but the seed package
shows red ones.) And those yellow tomatoes aren't
ripening; they're hard as rocks. :/
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
My dwarf sugar snap peas are gasping their last, but I'm
allowing them to mature and dry on the vines since I
can't get these seeds anymore. I'll save these and use
them for my fall crop plus next spring. Variety: Patio
Pride in case anyone sees them from a source other than
Scheepers.
New seeds planted and growing for Adelaide carrots and
White Sweet Spanish onions. Still waiting for the new
shallot seeds to germinate.
Lots of herbs still going, but the pansy plants a
neighbor gave me have given up the ghost. In spite of the
shady place I gave them, I guess they couldn't handle the
heat and humidity. :(
Whew!
I'm giving everything a good watering in the
mid-afternoon plus an extra swallow or two for the big
tomatos in the mornings. So far, so good.
Nyssa, who will now wait for reports from other locations
Bet you are getting pounded by rain now! Inbound here but
hitting Newport News which is 40 miles from you I think?
cshenk wrote:
Nyssa wrote:
Snag wrote:
On 7/3/2024 11:13 AM, cshenk wrote:
We've shifted (as normal) to the 90's with a lot of
'feels like' in the hundreds.
Sadly all but 1 of my 6 squash died. All but 1
zucchini.
My early girl tomatoes aren't making it but the more
heat tolerant versions are
kicking in. Beans (yellow and wax) failed for the
first
time. Shortly time to put in 3 more lettuce beds.
I'm still cropping around it all though. 9 tomatoes,
2 banana peppers today.
First year trying to start most from seeds. Learning
curve as ecpected.
We've been seeing temps in the high 990's here for
several weeks now
.Raining infrequently so I've been watering about every
3 or 4 days in the morning before it gets hot . I'm
using well water , city water would cost us a fortune .
It costs me about 20 cents per hour for a guesstimated
250 gallons .
My garden is going bonkers , everything has just
exploded in the last
3 weeks . My tomato plants are all loaded , the
cucumber is producing well , and I can hardly wait for
the green beans to start producing . I've already
picked one nice 8" zucchini , just gotta decide how I
want to use it . It's about to get real busy for my
wife . I do the growin' , she does the cannin' .
I'm ~90 miles NW of Carol, so I'm getting the same heat
and humidity numbers as she is, minus the off shore
breezes from the ocean and bay that she's getting.
I've got green tomatoes on five of my six tomato plants,
plus one red one on the Supersweet 100 bush that I'll be
eating later this morning.
The weird thing is the Jelly Bean tomato plant has lots
of little tomatoes, but they don't look right. I've grown
this variety for years, but these look like mutants.
Lobed tomatoes (some look like accordians!) and they seem
to be turning yellow instead of red. (Yeah, I know there
is a yellow Jelly Bean variety, but the seed package
shows red ones.) And those yellow tomatoes aren't
ripening; they're hard as rocks. :/
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
My dwarf sugar snap peas are gasping their last, but I'm
allowing them to mature and dry on the vines since I
can't get these seeds anymore. I'll save these and use
them for my fall crop plus next spring. Variety: Patio
Pride in case anyone sees them from a source other than
Scheepers.
New seeds planted and growing for Adelaide carrots and
White Sweet Spanish onions. Still waiting for the new
shallot seeds to germinate.
Lots of herbs still going, but the pansy plants a
neighbor gave me have given up the ghost. In spite of the
shady place I gave them, I guess they couldn't handle the
heat and humidity. :(
Whew!
I'm giving everything a good watering in the
mid-afternoon plus an extra swallow or two for the big
tomatos in the mornings. So far, so good.
Nyssa, who will now wait for reports from other locations
Bet you are getting pounded by rain now! Inbound here but
hitting Newport News which is 40 miles from you I think?
Newport News is more than 40 miles from here. I'd only
get to Williamsburg at that distance.
Yeah, rain on and off all day, muggy, thunder. Every time
I thought I might be able to get outside to get some work
done on one of my two outstanding outdoor jobs, BOOM;
another wave of rain and nasty came rolling in.
The onion and shallot seeds I planted in the ex-lettuce
pots came up, then withered away. :( Too hot even with
a couple of waterings a day. Half of my carrot seeds
fell to the same doom.
The dwarf snap peas were done, so I gathered the remaining
pods for seeds. Then I prepped the same pot, added some
fertilizer and sprinkled in a few green bean seeds. I mixed
the remainder of this years seeds (not many) with some
leftover from 2019, so there's no telling how many will
germinate. Good thing I got it done day before yesterday
when we had a dry day with more reasonable temperatures.
Today looks to repeat yesterday, so I'll be stuck inside
again. Those ugly bushes in the front of the house that
need trimming will just have to wait some more. :/
Nyssa, who is cooking a batch of hummingbird food every
morning and has already gone through one 10 pound bag
of sugar and is well into another
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:06:45 -0400, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
I have two window boxes of them this year. I did radishes in the pots
early in the season, refreshed the soil a bit and the first green
beans will be pickable in a few days.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
We have been under water restrictions here, but I am allowed to water
things in pots/tubs or new plantings. The lawn can go to hell AFAIAC.
Boron Elgar wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:06:45 -0400, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
I have two window boxes of them this year. I did radishes in the pots
early in the season, refreshed the soil a bit and the first green
beans will be pickable in a few days.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
We have been under water restrictions here, but I am allowed to water
things in pots/tubs or new plantings. The lawn can go to hell AFAIAC.
Hi Boron!
Haven't seen you in a while! My garden pretty much subsumed to heat.
Earlier than usual. Ah well, some things are trucking along fine
still. In September, I can do a second planting of lettuce and a few
other things.
On 7/23/2024 12:48 PM, cshenk wrote:
Boron Elgar wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:06:45 -0400, Nyssa
<Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
I have two window boxes of them this year. I did radishes in the
pots early in the season, refreshed the soil a bit and the first
green beans will be pickable in a few days.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
We have been under water restrictions here, but I am allowed to
water things in pots/tubs or new plantings. The lawn can go to
hell AFAIAC.
Hi Boron!
Haven't seen you in a while! My garden pretty much subsumed to
heat. Earlier than usual. Ah well, some things are trucking along
fine still. In September, I can do a second planting of lettuce
and a few other things.
I'm lucky to have a well that I can water with . I too plan to plant
cool weather crops later , but because nothing I planted this spring
did well at all . I have had lousy luck with anything resembling a
salad ingredient . Except tomatoes , this year they're bustin' loose .
On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:06:45 -0400, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying the Blue Lake bush beans in a pot
like Boron recommended, and I've got lots of blossoms and
tiny green beans coming along. YAY! I won't get a big pot
full of beans, but any is better than none.
I have two window boxes of them this year. I did radishes in the pots
early in the season, refreshed the soil a bit and the first green
beans will be pickable in a few days.
I'm giving everything a good watering in the mid-afternoon
plus an extra swallow or two for the big tomatos in the
mornings. So far, so good.
We have been under water restrictions here, but I am allowed to water
things in pots/tubs or new plantings. The lawn can go to hell AFAIAC.
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