Is it abnormally hot by you?Rising temps have been a month and a half ahead of schedule and we've had near 100 degrees more often than not for a month now., 96-100 most days.
Here's normal according to city-data but it seems a few degrees low.
Closest thing to normal is 85-95 from mid-July to mid-Sept. We hit that on half the days of May this year. Our first year here, ten years ago, it snowed in early May.
Yellow cherry tomatoes are ripening now that it's down to 90 by day - 70 by night. Ate three this morning.
Neighbor I gave some plants to stopped by and said OMG, holy sh.. when he saw mine. I guess his aren't doing too good. I didn't give him my best plants but they were far from the worst or smallest. He also bought some that looked better than any of mine.
I’ve got a fun week ahead. Tomorrow - looking gorgeous, so I have one bed that needs major weeding and top dressing.
Mom helped me tie up tomatoes today that were getting rather unruly. I have a lot of fruit on, but nothing ripe, yet.
I discovered that I have PEACHES, today! I always thought you needed a second Peach tree for pollination, but I guess I’m wrong because there are a dozen or more Peaches on my lone tree. Yay!
Pears are looking terrific and I have apples on Liberty, Bonnie Best and two Honeycrisp - first time for them! It’s gonna be a Hard Cider Candy Apple Christmas, YAY!
Then - Rain on Friday and all weekend - which we really need! But come Monday - 90+ degrees and 100% humidity. Yuck. All week. Double yuck.
So, my tomatoes are going to be slow to ripen, too.
I blasted my grape arbor with Sevin, very early this morning. Japanese Beetles. Not many, but I just checked them and there are now NONE. Jerks.