Posted on 07/11/2022 11:07:08 AM PDT by orsonwb
Yum. I love field peas.
Yeppers, I have some burgundy okra and it’s rather pretty.
Peanuts look pretty happy.
I finally lost out to the squash vine borers, they seemed especially troublesome this year.
Pulled out my yellow squash two weeks ago and my last zucchini yesterday. :(
“Zucchini”
Yep, the best and it will produce more than you can harvest... And squash, melons, and “tomato shade cloth” is your best friend. Then you can grow anything under it which is rated as “full sun”. Nope... Cloth is needed anyhow in heat like that.
We live in the desert southwest and grow everything if done right. The main key is do not let the leaves get wet. The drops of water cause small magnifying glasses that burn the leaves.
Tomato cloth, water ground only before the sun comes up, and/or after it goes down.
>It is a universe of one: Okra.
And okra is very good for you
“So is the inside of my oven but I wouldn’t want to stick my face in it all day.”
Lol, I am familiar with it. On a bike the faster you go the hotter the blast furnace is.
For a couple of months you don’t even think about riding a motorbike across to Barstow., You will be lucky to survive it.
The German tourists die every year trying...
97* in Beaverton. Where are you?
Do you grow peanuts in your garden? I’ve never heard of that.
Garden question ping
Blue agave?
I have shade cloth and should cover the tomatoes.
I water every morning and so far, OK for purple hulls, some squash but the yellow will stop soon if not already, we grew good peppers until just days ago, egg plant did fine, tomatoes are doing well enough but they will not set new blossoms over about 90 usually. Okra is eternal. My wife started baking breaded Okra and it is very good but heats up the house using the oven. Melons still growing.
Chick peas?
The pond is evaporating about 1/3 inch a day and I am using about 0.04” a day watering. I’ll give it another foot and reassess. In the last few years the spring in the bottom of it has somehow managed to hold at about 3’ down. It is about 1.25 feet down right now from the spillway. We don’t get good water wells around here but I’m thinking about it.
Roses are still going, impatiens won’t in less than mostly shade, periwinkle just keep going and the lantana love the heat as does the salvia and portulaca and most of the herb garden.
I hate Oklahoma summers and have sworn many times I will not endure another July and August here but I still do. Each one gets harder as my skin thins and the micro vessels do less to help cool me. I am officially getting old. We are mostly trapped with nobody to take care of the place or the cats and the cows when we have them. Just glad I don’t have cows right now. Sheesh! That would be bad.
I don’t know how many more summers I can stand it in the garden in the south TN heat. I’m close to the GA line and summers are miserable. My husband has never worked in a garden. I’m 67, 5’4”, and manhandling a 6 1/2 np tiller. It’s really not fun this time of year but I have a hard time not planting in the spring when its cool.
bkmk
I don’t have to grow Zucchini. There are wheelbarrows full sitting all through the neighborhood.
Usually with a sign saying, “Take Some, PLEASE!”.
It’s 111 degrees in Maricopa, dew point 48%. Not a drop of rain in sight for the next 10 days. The monsoon sucks so far this year. 🤬
“I love fried ocra and can’t get enough bring it on 🤪”
My late Grandmother made the best. She has been gone for 26 years, I don’t think I have had it since. Flour / Corn meal / seasoning dredge, fried in Bacon fat. Her pan-fried apricot turnovers was right there as well.
yep, I have some peanuts.
*** It is a universe of one: Okra. ***
That was my thought, too. My tomatoes aren’t setting, my basil and okra are the only things thriving. My one undead sweet potato plant is happy. The rest died.
LoL, and Optimists in Texas are thinking time to get ready for the Fall Garden.
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