Posted on 06/12/2015 1:14:58 PM PDT by greeneyes
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It's 85 degrees, the sun was shining, but it is now cloudy and thundering, and satellite signal has been lost.
If we had a Spring, I must have missed it when I blinked. We have been totally in summer heat this week. Every thing is growing well.
Please, if you can, continue to pray for Johnny as he is supposed to have Chemo today and we no doubt need all the help that God will grant him.
No word from Kathy on Arrowhead, so I expect his condition is about the same, and prayers are needed there too.
Have a great weekend. God Bless
Pinging the list.
we=will. If you asked to on or off the ping list and it didn’t happen, let me know. I think I got everyone, but it seems like there was one or two more, but if so can’t find it in my notes.
Lights are flickering now, so likely to lose power any time.
Thanks for the update on Johnny. He is in my prayers.
Yikes. :(
June already... time sure flies when you get daily thunderstorms.
Well, the sun is out in beautiful San Antonio. New flowers have been put out front, grass is growing nicely, people coming up to me and telling me I have the most improved lawn in the subdivision.
Looks like my cucumber plants are dying. Not sure if it is from the heat because I cannot imaging crops dying from too much sun. They get watered every couple of days.
New tomatoes have popped up on a plant I thought was just about gone. With all the rain, my tomatoes only grew a little bigger than golf balls. But tasted real good. String beans are done.
Put carrots and corn into the 4x4’s couple of weeks ago. Seeing sprouts which is good. Hopefully they will take and I will have more goodies in the fall. Eggplant and Zucchini were busts. If Cukes do not come back, will turn the soil and replant. Hopefully will get something for the fall.
Have a great weekend everyone.
EQ
Prayers up for all.
We’ve had company followed by serious medical issues with two elderly members of the family this week. Between unexpected appointments, calling doctors, & trying to keep the wheels on their wagons, there has been no time for gardening. If you have good health, be very, very grateful.
I still have temporary netting over the tomatoes that the deer were munching on previously. Hopefully, I can do something about the situation this weekend. For now, the netting is working to keep the deer out, but it’s keeping me out as well (weeding, etc.). It’s hot and steamy with humidity with no let-up in sight so summer has definitely arrived.
Thank you for the reminder!
Prayers up for our dear FRiends.
Prayers for healing for you, Johnny, and that you tolerate the chemo well.
Here I am absolutely spoiled by the historic community garden, no deer or other critters, soil I can push a stake 18 inches deep, and timed irrigation - went to water the melon seedlings to save them from the 92 degree heatwave and the soil was nice and damp already.
Growing heirloom beans, peas, melons, greens, eggplants, peppers and herbs - limited to two tomatoes as a “curiosity,” so I’ve got a dozen more at home in a big cage made from scavenged library shelves.
Blueberries and raspberries on the way, some sour cherries ripe. Have to stand in the sun and beat the birds to them. I’ve decided never to plant sour cherries again - too small and fiddly and time-consuming to pit.
My sour cherry pie cheat: use sweet cherries, add the juice of a good-sized lime and a teaspoon of almond extract. You will not tell the difference.
No Cooper’s hawks nesting this year - when we had them the birds left the berries and cherries alone.
Mine sure did. I have to use 50% shade cloth over my tomatoes and cucumbers especially but find everything does better here in SC with that shade cloth.
The tomatoes, berries and grapes are doing great but the rabbits have gotten my cabbage, pea, broccoli and cauliflower. I want to get rid of them but my wife says we just have to try harder to keep them out. Everytime I chase them out they run to her and look like they’re complaining. We have a lot of Fox, even during the day. I think it is due to the 17 year cicada cycle this year. Maybe they will take care of the rabbits too.
Arrived at #2 Son Clint’s pad in San Diego last Sunday evening.
Since then we’ve been to the beach, gotten #1 Marine Daughter Leah checked in at Camp Pendleton, done some offshore fishing, taken Mrs. Augie to the witch doctor to have some accupuncture done in attempt to relieve her back pain, and mixed in a few other various touristy type activities.
We’re going to the sprint car races in Perris tomorrow night. Logistics around that, delivering daughter to Camp Pendleton after the races, and then getting to the airport for a 6:20am Sunday flight home require us to drop daughter’s car off at the Marine base later today.
As vacations go, this one has been a lot of work.
Pulling weeds in the garden Sunday afternoon is starting to sound good to me. lol
I was in the hospital big parts of March and April and didn’t feel up to gardening in May. First time in over 25 years, I don’t have a garden.
I’ll have to be content reading about other people’s.
Thanks so much for the lovely pics, especially of the flowers. We concentrate so much on food crops here, that I don’t have nearly all the flowers I would like.
Keep thinking I’ll get some beds of edible perennial flowers in beds in the front yard, but haven’t gotten around to building the beds or the flowers yet.
Soil in front yard is atrocious. Nothing we have tried there has survived, except for a few raised beds close to the front patio.
Congrats on the 34th. We are looking forward to our 50th towards the end of summer.
Thanks.
Wow! Beautiful photos. Love your sedum garden.
My flowers are doing well - it only got into the 90’s this week in the Piedmont here in NC so we’ve had a nice long spring which is unusual. I’ve planted 2 new roses and got some cleome and mandivilla to place in the garden. The tomato plants are thriving - only 6 plants but that will be enough for me and my family.
I hope you’re feeling better. I’ve been coping with a different issue, but it resulted in me being without much to speak of regarding my garden.
We have only some squash and peppers that we started from seed. Maybe this weekend we’ll buy some seedlings.
Beautiful! Thank you!
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