How Does Your Garden Grow??????

Blooms on melons and green beans.

My peas are starting to flower as are my tomatoes. It cooled down out here and so did the plants. It's warming up again this week though so things should really kick in over then next few weeks.

I made it rain this morning.

xtsho said:

My peas are starting to flower as are my tomatoes. It cooled down out here and so did the plants. It's warming up again this week though so things should really kick in over then next few weeks.

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We hit 92F today. My 10 day has gone back and forth between 99 and 100 for this Friday. That is too hot for green beans. If I don;t get a mess off them, I'll send Mother Nature a strongly worded letter.

too larry said:

We hit 92F today. My 10 day has gone back and forth between 99 and 100 for this Friday. That is too hot for green beans. If I don;t get a mess off them, I'll send Mother Nature a strongly worded letter.

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Our weather has been wacky lately. Normally we'd be high 80's/low 90's, sunny every day. Instead, we've been getting rain and the highest temp for the past few weeks was low 80's. I'm not complaining, but it has been strange.

socaljoe said:

Our weather has been wacky lately. Normally we'd be high 80's/low 90's, sunny every day. Instead, we've been getting rain and the highest temp for the past few weeks was low 80's. I'm not complaining, but it has been strange.

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My spring has been strange too. We had lows in the 50's week before last, but since then it's been hotter than normal. Also dry. Not much rain, even when we have thunderstorms.

We were in the upper eighties a little while ago. Now back down in the sixties. Temperature swings are pretty abnormal all across the country.

Saw the first Arm cuke yesterday. It was already bigger today. Soon I will be hip deep in them.

I picked the first pepper yesterday. The wife added it to lunch.

I was working in the front yard today. Remembered the speckled peas for the first time in weeks. They look alright. Need more sun, rain and a little hoe work.

This morning I picked the first few Arm cukes of the season. Here is one I missed.

I saw the first few melons this morning.

Acorn squash.

I made it rain on the peas, green beans, okra and part of the corn. You can see the yellow leaves on the green beans already. Triple digits is not going to be kind to them.

Getting a few squash, cukes and peppers everyday now. Salads as far as the eye can see. {my mammoth jalapeno are hot this year}

I transplanted a few tomato plants and a broadbean into the edge of the mushroom compost pile. The weeds were waist high with no water, so I figured with water, the tomatoes would kick ass.

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Coffee can corn is kicking ass. Mine just started to tassel. Not as advanced as yours is.

I got all the peppers on soakers yesterday. Got them and the squash pinestrawed as well.

Apparently my camera is in my other backpack, so no pictures. But almost half of the green beans have cashed from the heat. The pink eyed purple hull peas are blooming, but only about 10 inches tall. Corn and okra have made the best comeback of the non-soaker hose lot. I've run sprinklers on them almost every day. They both looked pretty rough a week ago. I ate the first cooked squash yesterday. I'm getting 3-4 a day so far, but that will pick up.

And I guess it's from overcrowding, but the Armanian cukes are going to have to be picked small. They are tough at 12-14 inches long. The wife made her smashed cuke salad yesterday, and some were too firm to smash.