The evening news just announced it is 106 right now and might rise another degree or two before the sun starts to go down. The dogs came in and you could feel the heat coming off them. All they do lately is snooze under the A/C. Who can blame them.
I’ve been watering morning and evening just to keep things alive. The squash finally went caput without giving me anything. There is one little cuke I’ve got my eye on and may have to be happy with that for the summer. Despite all the watering, the corn is drying out and it only gave me one little bitty ear that never matured. I have two varieties of corn and neither have grown over 3-4 feet.
There is one little banana pepper and none of the peppers are growing much. But then I had to replant 3 times so they were very late getting into the ground. The tomatoes I had to restart aren’t much bigger than what they were when I put them out a month or so ago but they’re happy so maybe they don’t like the heat. If it weren’t for all the yellow pear volunteers, I’d have nothing. They have maters but aren’t getting any color. I need to see if the carrots are ready.
Sounds a little like last year here. I put a sheet over the tomatoes and watered morning and night, finally got some good maters in the fall.
I also dug up some of the pepper plants and put them in pots, and replanted lettuce and spinach in pots and put them where a tree shaded them all afternoon. Got some produce that way, and brought the pots indoors and continued getting produce during the winter.
Garlic, peppers, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, rosemary, chives, tarragon parsley, and lavendar was all I got last year.
You say it’s 106 where you are - it was 104 here. How can plants live through that? My story sounds a lot like yours - beans plants dying from being cooked by the heat/sun. Tomatoes are almost gone - at least I have been getting tomatoes up to now.
I will have my act together for something to grow in the fall maybe - but I will have it together, knowing what I’m doing, preparing for early spring next year. I didn’t have the right tools and knowledge before now.
I hope you have better luck for fall.