FYI It is August 9. My brain transposed what I was thinking between the brain and fingers.LOL
I have to rethink what to have planted on the deck in containers during the hot months of July and August. I fear a heat stroke in these temps of well over 100. Being dead or a mental vegetable isn’t going to help me. Right now, I have nine healthy tomato plants, Mortgage Lifters (think that’s the name), in the large tomato planter that has it’s own trellis when the tomatoes get that high. Only two big grown tomato plants can be in this container. That means I have to transplant, at some time, seven of them in grow bags. I planted nine I grew from seed in order to get some that would stay alive, well, they all did.
The only other thing living on that deck is the four Sweet Potato plants in a ten gallon grow bag and they don’t look great. I have net over the tomatoes and the SP. Some time ago, I planted a Sesame flower seed in a large pot that is sitting in the dirt garden part. It’s been so hot, I hadn’t walked out that far to look at it. I did that yesterday to water it, and the plant is tall enough now that it’s above the top of the pot and looks extremely healthy. I figured it might have died due to my not watering it every day.
Somehow, even if I have to bring in the house the big round tomato plant barrel (the other nine tomatoes are in a big rectangular container) to do it, I’m going to get potting soil mix in there and plant three Tromboncino Squash seeds in it. Wait, I’ll use the paper cups and start the seeds in those with seed starter in the cups. Better chance of success doing that. I’ll do that tomorrow. I can’t stay out there long enough to dump potting soil mix in that barrel as it will take opening several bags of potting soil mix and I would be dead by then doing it outside. Don’t say anything about my dumping potting soil mix into a barrel in my house. That will also make that barrel heavy and it’s not on wheels. Rats. Well, I’ll drag it out of the house, couldn’t lift it I’m sure.
I had grand ideas of planting a lot of various seeds for a fall garden, but the heat is too bad for me to do that. In a SHTF situation, I would have to plant what I was going to do to have more food. The anti-squirrel pellets aren’t going to get out there until my son comes sometime this month or first of next month.
About two nights ago, I was going to pull the curtains over the glass doors and saw a baby possum on the deck about 6 ft. from my tomatoes and SP, and it was moving away from that direction. I made a noise and it move faster and I lost where it went. A baby possum means a family somewhere. I emailed Johnny what to do and he said call Animal Control but I don’t know where that possum came from to direct them to some place. Saw a possum here years ago and once there was a big dead one in the garden and now years later here is another one. I live in town, for goodness sakes, where are the possums coming from?
If you people can work in this heat, you are much better than I am.