You know the saying "What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger."
Of course, I don't think poison ivy is in that category. I found an empty bucket my neighbor left on my doorstep with a note:
"If you have any extra tomatoes or squash, I could use some".. I gave her a 23" cucuzza, and some tomatoes. My tomatoes are slowing down in this blazing TX sun, and something has been biting my cucuzzi squashes. Today I covered them with knee high panty hose..I wonder if that will protect them, or suffocate them. I did a twist tie loosely at the top. I also fetilized everything today, picked SVB eggs off the Trombettas, and injected BTK into the T vines. I did a lot of injections..If any borers I make it into the vines, they should die of a tummy ache. I read the BTK is only good for four days after injection into the vine. Don't know if that's true of not.
Unlike you I took a four hour nap this afternoon when the temps got into the nineties. I am still eating that ratatouille I made the other day with my squash and tomatoes.
One of my Trombetta plants isn’t looking so great - quite a few leaves (more towards the bottom) going yellow & it ‘wilts’ in the heat, perks back up when the temps are cooler. The other one is still nice and green & the cucuzza plant is doing great - lots of flowers now (almost all male). We’re supposed to be near 100 the next two or three days so I’m sure that will be very hard on all the plants.
No more fence clearing until it cools down .... have a few sections to go to be totally finished with that project. I’ll definitely be staying in - good time to work on some recipes. That cucuzza cream pie has caught my eye ....... :-)