How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry

too larry

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xtsho said:
My peas are starting to flower as are my tomatoes. It cooled down out here and so did the plants. It's warming up again this week though so things should really kick in over then next few weeks.
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We hit 92F today. My 10 day has gone back and forth between 99 and 100 for this Friday. That is too hot for green beans. If I don;t get a mess off them, I'll send Mother Nature a strongly worded letter.
 
socaljoe

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too larry said:
We hit 92F today. My 10 day has gone back and forth between 99 and 100 for this Friday. That is too hot for green beans. If I don;t get a mess off them, I'll send Mother Nature a strongly worded letter.
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Our weather has been wacky lately. Normally we'd be high 80's/low 90's, sunny every day. Instead, we've been getting rain and the highest temp for the past few weeks was low 80's. I'm not complaining, but it has been strange.
 
too larry

too larry

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socaljoe said:
Our weather has been wacky lately. Normally we'd be high 80's/low 90's, sunny every day. Instead, we've been getting rain and the highest temp for the past few weeks was low 80's. I'm not complaining, but it has been strange.
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My spring has been strange too. We had lows in the 50's week before last, but since then it's been hotter than normal. Also dry. Not much rain, even when we have thunderstorms.
 
too larry

too larry

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I made it rain on the peas, green beans, okra and part of the corn. You can see the yellow leaves on the green beans already. Triple digits is not going to be kind to them.

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too larry

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I transplanted a few tomato plants and a broadbean into the edge of the mushroom compost pile. The weeds were waist high with no water, so I figured with water, the tomatoes would kick ass.
 
too larry

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Apparently my camera is in my other backpack, so no pictures. But almost half of the green beans have cashed from the heat. The pink eyed purple hull peas are blooming, but only about 10 inches tall. Corn and okra have made the best comeback of the non-soaker hose lot. I've run sprinklers on them almost every day. They both looked pretty rough a week ago. I ate the first cooked squash yesterday. I'm getting 3-4 a day so far, but that will pick up.

And I guess it's from overcrowding, but the Armanian cukes are going to have to be picked small. They are tough at 12-14 inches long. The wife made her smashed cuke salad yesterday, and some were too firm to smash.
 
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