Tomatoes are slowly growing but still no blooms and it’s going to hit 100 this weekend so don’t expect anything until maybe the Fall. The peppers are barely taller than what they were when transplanted 2-3 months ago and not one pepper. The beans are barely putting on this year - we’ve only had one small pot. There’s been a couple of cukes and some mustard. The melon vines are starting to sprawl and the peanuts just now have one or two blooms.
Every year the borers destroy the squash so replanted those in late June and they’re up and starting their true leaves. I’m testing out late planting - that’s what I’m telling myself. Not that Texas is anywhere close to Minnesota, but U of Minnesota says the moths come through in June and that’s when ours get destroyed, too. Anyway, if this doesn’t work can try a third round in late August. Though I’ve had the little buggers in August, too.
The past couple weeks, I finally got the garden weeded and replanted. The weeds -— they’re baaaack. The spring floods washed everything out and I wasn’t in the mood to start over. Hubby, as he always does, mowed through the onions and took a flame thrower to the fence line twice which killed the berries. It’s too late to buy new berry bushes so will have to wait until next spring. Every year something happens so I don’t have berries or a garden. Was surveying it just now and over the years it has become more and more shady but shade comes first in 100 temps and garden a far second.
bgill,
I’ve always had great luck spraying the squash vine stem with pesticide (liquid - less harm to the pollinators) for the squash vine borers. Not sure if you’re organic. Even when a plant or two became infected (you can tell when the plant severely wilts at high heat) I heavily water and “stab” the squash stem with a large sowing (I mean really large) sewing needle..
I have a shade tree over half of one of my sq ft beds, and I find that I can get lettuce and fruit set during our sweltering days in that shaded patch.
I read once, that the light out doors even in the shade is so much more than indoor light, that most shade doesn’t hinder too much, especially if you have some little dappling of sunshine coming through now and then, or situated so that you get the morning sun.