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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 17:33:04 GMT -5
A big old thunderstorm rolled on through and lasted long enough to thoroughly water the flowers and the lawn...and lower our temp to a lovely 75. I'm in heaven.
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Post by oped on Jul 21, 2020 17:45:49 GMT -5
It looked like we might get one a bit ago, but it is clearing up a little, drat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 19:26:26 GMT -5
Rain started again and it's still raining. Radar looks like it'll be an all night thing. Yay sort of. I was going to mow the lawn before DSIL takes the blade off to get sharpened. Oh, well. I guess the lawn will have to wait. The world won't end.
I'm ready for summer to be over.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 21, 2020 19:30:47 GMT -5
A big old thunderstorm rolled on through and lasted long enough to thoroughly water the flowers and the lawn...and lower our temp to a lovely 75. I'm in heaven. I wish it would do that here.
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Post by crazycat on Jul 21, 2020 22:27:41 GMT -5
A big old thunderstorm rolled on through and lasted long enough to thoroughly water the flowers and the lawn...and lower our temp to a lovely 75. I'm in heaven. Lucky !
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 22, 2020 14:20:04 GMT -5
T-storms all around last night. I got 0.1" of rain. Last rain was a week ago.
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Post by oped on Jul 22, 2020 14:24:30 GMT -5
It’s raining! Well, just a little... and it doesn’t look like it will last, but still! Sigh.
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Post by finnime on Jul 22, 2020 14:38:49 GMT -5
We're having severe thunderstorm warnings right now. Also got storms last night. I'm glad--we needed the water.
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Post by bobosensei on Jul 22, 2020 15:14:13 GMT -5
My tomatoes and cucumbers are still producing well. I just made some noodles with a cucumber and topped them with thai peanut sauce for lunch.
I lost most of my blueberries and all my blackberries to birds, and the birds are starting to get the big tomatoes. I'm having to pick them a few days earlier than I'd like to keep them from the birds. I have some bird netting now, but I don't know how well it will work. I'm cutting some to size to try out.
I think I pulled the last green beans off of the bushes yesterday. I really wish I had planted more, but this is the first time I tried them so I didn't know what to expect.
I may not do carrots again. I planted some around my lettuces thinking they would not grow since I tried them before and never got anything. They grew, but ended up really small. I don't think they will work well in containers so if I try again they will go directly in the ground I think.
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Post by bobosensei on Jul 22, 2020 15:15:33 GMT -5
Oh and my boyfriend seems to be successful with some broccoli plants.
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Post by busymom on Jul 22, 2020 22:13:29 GMT -5
We got our garden in late this year, so this week was the first that we've been picking cherry tomatoes & green peppers. Our raspberry bushes have been producing, but of course we're fighting the birds over that yummy red fruit.
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Post by CCL on Jul 22, 2020 22:41:00 GMT -5
Picked my first tomato. Couple sunflower pics.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 22, 2020 22:48:18 GMT -5
Mine is producing like crazy. I have a later row of green beans. So I'm going to pull these as I pick. I told a neighbor to come get what she wanted today. It was so hot I don't think her and her hubs picked much. It was brutal. We got something like 5 inches of rain night before an inch yesterday and 3/4's pf an inch today. The humidity right now is 95% at 75 degrees at midnight. Hot, hot during the day.
I told hubs don't think I will plant next year or if I do will be half. Where we used to eat a lot of green tomatoes and I loved pickled beets, our tastes have changed. I have enough of the green tomatoes and beets probably for 2 years. I overdid relish and pickles last year so are good. I am going to make spaghetti sauce and stewed tomatoes, we like those.
The heat got the cabbages, had to pull need to clean that. The rest of the beets need pulled, going to do those and the turnips and put on facebook for folks in our little town to get what they want, will set them by my mailbox. Same with squash, peppers, and cukes. I have just never seen so many and think I may be drowning in tomatoes too, though some are getting sunburnt. Need to check my carrots and see if they need pulled will can those also.
I will still do corn, cut and freeze. Getting berries when they come off, next Friday getting 50 pounds of peaches from the Peach Truck to can and freeze. Will also later ask to get apples from my neighbors old apple tree. They have a pear tree, but never did those.
It's just healthier food.
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Post by CCL on Jul 22, 2020 23:01:04 GMT -5
I only planted 2 of the beefsteak tomatoes, but each plant has 10 or 12 tomatoes on it so far. That's plenty for us. I also planted 4 cherry tomato plants in my big pot. They always provide lots of tomatoes, enough to freeze some for winter, too.
We had about 1.5 inches of rain last night. It's been dry this year, so that should help everything grow. It was humid today. Not all that hot, 80-something. The sun felt really hot on my back for some reason. Didn't stay out too long, but did walk around the block a couple times.
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Post by CCL on Jul 22, 2020 23:08:04 GMT -5
We got our garden in late this year, so this week was the first that we've been picking cherry tomatoes & green peppers. Our raspberry bushes have been producing, but of course we're fighting the birds over that yummy red fruit. Love raspberries. Yummy! My bell peppers are about the size of a peanut. They're not growing well so far. I did pick a couple jalapenos and added one to a new recipe I made for lunch the other day. My garden is really small. I might expand it next year. I used to have a much bigger one, but just got tired of all the work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 6:12:14 GMT -5
We put two tomato plants in containers like we do every year. So far? One tomato about two weeks ago, one tomato got stem rot, one tomato ripening on each plant. What? As my mother would have said "I guess I wasn't holding my mouth right."
A couple of weeks ago DD found a Bell pepper plant that was dying and on a clearance shelf. It was "cute" so she paid a dollar for it and brought it home. So far we've taken three peppers from it, and it's loaded with more. Go figure!
I discovered new spots of fungus on the lawn yesterday when mowing. Treated one and ran out of fungicide so the others will be done this morning before it gets too hot to be outside.
Tuesday night's rain was so hard that it bent and broke my giant French Vanilla marigolds. I had to pull them up yesterday, dammit.
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Post by oped on Jul 23, 2020 6:31:39 GMT -5
I don't eat green peppers, but there are a lot on hopefully will start to ripen soon. Moderate amount of tomatoes on, but none ripening yet. I don't think it rained, so I'm off to asses and probably water, again. sigh. I need to deadhead flowers and do some weeding, cleaning up beds in preparation for new crops. I did transplant my fall broccoli/cabbage/brussel sprouts into peat cups yesterday.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jul 23, 2020 6:44:23 GMT -5
We've got plenty of rain the last two nights. I haven't watered. So this means it will be dry the whole time we are gone and everything will die.
Two green peppers are growing. No squash yet and all the tomatoes are still small and green. I pulled a bunch of dead pea vines yesterday.
Not sure that my snapdragons are coming back this time.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 23, 2020 8:05:05 GMT -5
Finally got some rain after a week without. T-storm last night. 0.58".
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Post by oped on Jul 23, 2020 8:14:50 GMT -5
Watering and deadheading done.
Its supposed to rain again today... but its been supposed to for quite a while now and nadda.
But then I remembered... I have plans to distance dinner with a friend on the deck early evening... so I'm guessing it probably will rain ... right about then...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 10:40:54 GMT -5
Lawn fungus treated. A little tidying up done. If you stick a fork in me you'll find that I'm done, too. It was so hot out even at 7 am that I had to take a shower when I finished deadheading and treating the fungus. That wasn't even strenuous. We are definitely in air-you-can-wear season.
I had this idea that the blade and wheels on the mulching mower help to spread the @!#$%^&! fungus. I'm going to try wiping down the wheels and the underside of the mower each time I finish using it and also putting the bag on it to catch the clippings instead of letting them just lie there and spread their nasty spores.. Maybe it will help. Maybe it's too late. I'm tired of fighting fungus.
DSIL took the blade off the mower for DD to get it sharpened tomorrow morning. It will be nice to sit on my teeny tiny patio and not see butchered lawn. And...I haven't been able to get the leaf blower to start. Even asked DD to give it a try. Nope. So I asked DSIL to see if he could start it. Yup. What? The only thing I could think of was that maybe it wanted a new spark plug. Yay...I don't have to hunt the right spark plug.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 24, 2020 19:58:26 GMT -5
Picked my first tomato. Couple sunflower pics. WOW. So pretty.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 11:42:09 GMT -5
Deadheaded salvia and watered some of the garden and DD's patio plants. More would have gotten done except oooh, shiny...the gutter finally got cleaned. Then the debris from the gutter had to be cleaned up off the patio, and it's another air you can wear day so I gave up after filling the bird baths. It's not like the birds can just get a glass of water from the tap, poor things.
If it would cool down for just a day or two garden maintenance would be a whole lot easier. It's all looking kind of lifeless even though there are lots of flowers blooming. I guess they don't much like the heat, either.
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Post by oped on Jul 25, 2020 11:53:31 GMT -5
This is August weather and I hate August gardening... wondering what actual August will bring?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 12:13:03 GMT -5
Yes. August. My garden and I have a case of the Augusts. oped Heaven forfend...we could get two Augusts this year!
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Post by oped on Jul 25, 2020 12:14:56 GMT -5
Husband mostly finished my last bed, which I wasn’t going to do anything but de-weed this year but and I am legit considering replanting vines and seeing if they make it to late fall and abandoning the current vine patch to whatever nature desires...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 12:53:26 GMT -5
There's a patch at the back of the garden where nothing usually gets planted. This year I scattered some zinnia seeds out there and lo, and behold! Zinnias. The tall ones. And I had those giant French vanilla marigolds that were planted in absolutely the wrong spot and anyway got destroyed by the rain. The cosmos planted in another part of the garden are lush and green and way too tall with way too few blossoms. So next spring I'm gonna get seeds for all of them and mix 'em up and just throw 'em out there, rake 'em in, and see what happens. I'll call it my surprise garden.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 25, 2020 16:00:00 GMT -5
I just spent five hours watering the lawn and garden beds because it has not rained here in days. I just looked out the window and it is pouring out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 5:34:42 GMT -5
Tennesseer I think it's like washing your car. As soon as you do and it's all nice and clean, the heavens open up.
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Post by oakheart on Jul 26, 2020 12:32:43 GMT -5
Tennesseer I think it's like washing your car. As soon as you do and it's all nice and clean, the heavens open up. That's for sure the truth.
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