Heat Index of 100. Smell of fresh cut grass all the way home from work just now. Hope they’re all drinking plenty of water while getting this first cutting of hay.
Just checked my recently seeded beds and they’re staying moist but I guess I have the same problem as Augie — old seeds. Only thing that popped up in two days is one sugar baby watermelon.
Between seed age, storage conditions and only planting four of each, chances for failure were pretty high. Beans can take a week so some of them might still pop up. Cucumbers like a small range of temp and not too hot to germinate.
Things that would likely help.
buy less seeds
store them better
mulch seeded beds and the drip lines on them
mulch drip mainline
win the lottery
Fresh tank of cool spring water, white RV hose sitting down in the tall grass running from tank to pump, black pump and black drip line sitting in the sun. I can only imagine the temperature variation. Starting temp 130, ending temp 65? Ouch
Might have to stick a temp sensor in the bed near a dripper and log the temperature from 10 minutes before the 1pm drip session to 10 minutes after. See if there’s a spike and then a dip.
Interesting day at work. It was just me and weekend boss but he left within an hour. I guess his wife is very sick and he had red eyes from lack of sleep. He left me to run two and possibly three machines.
Then at 8:15, the power blinked out. That wreaks havoc on everything and usually the big boss and the guru get everything checked out and back up and running. Seen it once. I got through it and was back up and running as fast as any other dept with more experienced people so I did ok.
‘win the lottery’ Yep. ;)
Great ‘save’ at work! That’s going in your Permanent File, I’ll bet.
“I can’t spare this man! He fixes things!’ ~ Some Army General
I have a heck of a time getting beans to sprout.