Yes, my favorite movies (after the Stargates) are those involving extreme weather and massive change to humanity, especially Americans.
So Texas and California and Florida are looking at darn cold wind chills with the northern states in a complete freeze and I am of course immediately thinking of Day After Tomorrow.
Actual weather isn’t so bad for the extreme south, but most of the country is much colder – the cold is reaching farther down.
Brr.
Just a general update on how things are going in the Garden of Eatin’ today.
The weeds are taking over. I need to get out there and attack with the weed whacker, it’s that bad. It’s not stopping things from growing, so that much is good! But it won’t happen in the next few days…yesterday we had 100F+ temps, today we’re due for 105F and tomorrow is supposed to be 100F, and Sunday 90F…temps should be back in the mid 70s on Monday, so I’ll plan on going lots of work in the garden then, with before after after pics.
The tomato stake experiement has literally been a giant FLOP. As soon as the tomatoes started getting big, the plants got so heavy and thick they’ve tipped over, breaking the stakes and I have lots of tomatoes on the ground at risk from bugs…trying to keep them UP but they just keep growing and falling more :help
The corn is nearly 7′ high with lots of ears. I think we might have some grilled steak and corn for dinner tonight.
The lemon cucumbers are finally growing, well….like taking over their corner of the garden. I definitely planted too many. And the little vines have built in protection to keep me from picking too early, their thorns leave me bleeding when I try.
The strawberries stopped producing fruit all together after giving us hardly anything and are producing runners like crazy. I tried stopped that to see if it would encourage fruit, but it didn’t.
I’ve gotten 6 gigantic zucchini now and there’s lots more growing. I’ll be shredding and freezing it this weekend. Those suckers grow fast!
The crookneck is finally starting to grow fruit, but only after the plant grew to “Little Shop of Horrors” porportions.
Out one pumpkin is about basketball sized and just starting to turn orange.
Potatoes will finish being harvested tonight, there’s 3 plants left and I want to make potato salad. I forgot to write down the ingredients I used last time, I’ll do that this weekend and post the recipe :D
How rude is this crap?? Being very careful to keep the garden watered well without overwatering!
So the soaker hose in clay soil is a precarious dance of getting enough water and not forgetting about it and flooding the whole potato crop in the process. Time for a timer. I sure hope the taters don’t mind the 2 complete drenchings they’ve gotten lol
It’s supposed to be 60s tomorrow, 70s on Wednesday, 80s on Thursday, 90s on Friday and Saturday (!) and then drop back down to upper 60s on Sunday. Must get the water system finished and working well pronto!
Salem, OR
