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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Mostly dry and unseasonably cool here in Central Missouri over the past week. We’re getting a nice shower this morning but it’s moving steadily to the east and looks to be just about finished here. It will make a nice supplement to the watering I did over the weekend.

Not much to report on the victory garden. Watered and weeded, picked summer squash and cukes. Tomatoes aren’t doing much right now due to a lull in blooming from the Africa heat we had a couple weeks back. Sweet corn mostly stood back up after being flattened by wind and is looking like it wants to do something.

There’s no sign of the rhubarb that I transplanted in the spring. It looked great then the heat came and it all just folded up. I’m not sure where I’m going wrong with the stuff but it has used up most of my patience.


201 posted on 08/12/2024 10:18:07 AM PDT by Augie
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To: Augie
Augie. Rhubarb does not do well in my garden either. I finally replanted it to a berm underneath one of my redbuds and I am treating it as an ornamental. It seems to do better in the shade. Maybe next year it will start to produce enough to harvest. (That said, I do need to be careful of oxalates in things like rhubarb and spinach!)

Today...good news is that its August and will only be in the mid 80s today! The weather this year has been really strange. Its all those volcanoes blowing up and pumping water into the atmosphere I think.

279 posted on 08/19/2024 10:24:33 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission (Zone 7B KS/MO border 12:24 80F)
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