[sockmonkey]

If plants can’t hold up to the high 80s we been having, they’re for sure dead when it gets to 105 here.

And that is why fall gardens are the best for Texas. The thing is that when it's 105 in July, I don't feel like starting plants, or anything else.

I guess we need to do grow rooms in our basements. Oh, wait, most people in TX don't have basements.

[Marcella]

Some of the celery stalks have straightened up. The stalks were so thick before this happened, I didn't know how many actual plants were in that large pot. It's easy to see the base of the plants now with so many stalks having failed. There are five plants in that pot. The five are still alive but two are really straggly now, very few stalks are left on those.

Stalks are alive on three of them, but only one actually looks good enough to say it mostly survived. Yesterday I didn't see how any could straighten up. That pot of celery looks pitiful instead of beautiful the way it was before this happened.

The wilted strawberry plants in two pots look better today after watering yesterday. The large tomato plant that didn't have any blooms will have some popped out by tomorrow so the four originals are behaving like good tomato plants.

I can see actual green blackberries on two of the three blackberry plants. I bought them because they were two year old plants which should have blackberries this year and that is happening. It makes sense not to grow strawberries next year since they are a one season plant then have to buy new ones for the next year but the blackberry plants will still be here, so I'll buy more blackberry plants to add to these. Some of the strawberry plants are in shallow pots with lots of surface area which would be fine for lettuce. Rest of strawberry plants are in 3 or 4 foot long narrow planters and something with shallow roots will work with those.