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Exactly. The goal now is to just keep things hobbling along until the heat breaks in a few months. Our okra, sunflowers, zinnias, and sweet potatoes are about the only things that are happy 😊
1980s had the weirdest winter weather to date. Snow in San Antonio to hottest summer on record. I was told a story of my great-grandfather, who was on a tractor on our family farm land. He hit a wire or something, and it threw him off the tractor. He tried yelling for help. Luckily, someone notices and calls for help. My grandmother, who got home from teaching, was notified of the accident. My great-grandma, who couldn't leave at that time because she was a hairdresser who did old lady style hair with roller and hair dryer/ comb out. Thank God my great-grandfather didn't die from wire or heat. The family doesn't know how long he was lying in the field. Family got to spend many more years together with him until health issues got to him in the early 2000s. The town came together to give respect to my family. That why I love small town living. I was born the next year after that weird snowstorm and hot summer.
I bought one of those fans that go around your neck. It helped wayyyy more than i thought it would. It keeps your head ,and neck cool,and that cools the rest of you. Get you one Jill. I got sick one day from the heat. This keeps it from happening
Okay. I tried this once, but somehow I lost it. I remember how hot 1980 was. That year I had a 1 1/2 year old and a new baby born in Mid June. We had 40 day😂s of 100+ temps. It was horrible. HORRIBLE!!! My husband was active duty then and was attending school in OK. He had to ride home each weekend in the metal bed of a pickup truck. He came in looking like a tomato. But we made it through the summer, Praise God.
Wow you still have cabbages. I wondered if the heat would affect the taste. I've been making a lot of slaw and sauerkraut and drying it. Still have about 15 in the garden in MO.
Oh I remember 1980. Brutal! I was a young g married in Dallas. We would water the wood shingle roof and brick on front entry trying to help with stifling temps and protect roof as much as possible in the event of a spark.
Central Texas here.. my garden looks similar to yours. I’m about to call it quits and prepare for the next go round. It’s just too hot! Good luck to everyone.
Dallas area here.I grow in raised beds and containers. I'm watering the raised beds twice a day and I put aluminum roasting pans under the containers and grow bags, and keep them filled with water and it makes a huge difference. My plants were drying up before I did that.
I had my first chiropractic/physical therapy today. I thought I was going to be going once a month, but instead I am going once a week. Kinda glad because I want to get it over with and hopefully be able to move around enough to work in the garden besides container gardening. I started some herbs seeds last week, but I plan on keeping those indoors this winter. I am hoping to get seeds planted this weekend or early next week for a fall garden,
Thank you for sharing your garden. This year in NW Wisconsin, it's rained almost every day for the last 2 months and my garden is underwater. It's upsetting but out of my control. We have a few days without rain coming and looking forward to that. Have a blessed day!
I wanted to tell you i have the most amazing tomatoes this year. Never grew cherokee purples and holy cow i have never had a tomato almost make me cry.
Hi Jill sorry the heat is bad again this year. I feel your struggles. It seems that things are different here in Oregon. I due have a few Cucumbers, but nothing like in years past. It’s been warm & sunshine in the 80’s. Nothing is Producing like when I was a child. Keep up the good work! May God Bless❤🙏🏼
Thank you for the book recommendation! My husband is from a town called Blackland that is about an hour east of us in Dallas. We will surely both enjoy the book. Also, I was born in October 1980, and my mom loves to remind me how hot that summer was when she was pregnant with me.😊
We have gotten a few deluges of rain / hail / wind the past two months and then the humidity and heat... so the garden is really 'not happy'... was doing great and now it is bad... didn't get many jars of pickles and salsa, but thankful for what we did get...
Really really enjoyed the history lesson, so interesting. Ditto on the heat.🥵 Hubby is in bed super early for work and I stay up gradually easing the AC down to 76 for sleep. Very thankful for it just the same and the ceiling fans are a total blessing. I'm thinking you and Bear have your hotel reservations made for the Independence Day mayhem this coming week.
Thank you! That was interesting. We are in the east Texas thicket. I think we are having normal weather pattern changes. Its hard on us now, but I am really grateful for the a\c! Props for the previous generations that made it without any help. 🥵 This Texas heat is no joke! God bless. 🌷
Yeah, I need to get out there and clean house...It's soooo hot 🥵🥵 Everyday for the last week 80% chance of rain, 75, 60, 90%. It gets dark it thunders and lightning.....then nothing....NOT a thing..This is supposed to be our wet season. Well, I recon it is all around us, a LOT of rain circles us..But, it's not landing here. 😆😆
Using your recipe I made 7 quarts and 9 pints of beef bone broth. Using my roaster I was able to make a lot at one time. Thank you! I feel set for the next flu season 👍
Supposed to be 101 here in Longview tomorrow. Heat index 106. From my little building garden: squash exceeded 70 pounds,tomatoes close to 40 pounds,Okra has been 1 gallon by volume and still making (likes heat),8 more good watermelons still growing and they like heat too. Onions: 200+,carrots about 2 quarts. Very small and sweet (by variety). Cabbage is iffey.I'll start pulling squash plants in a few days. Still have a lot of tomatoes to pick. Watermelon should be ready in 2-3 weeks. Okra should make till first frost.As long as I keep the water on it.Oh, sweet peppers at little building did poorly: too much shade from the sunflower plants. Same with bell peppers. House plants: apples are many. Same with sweet peppers.
We had cloud cover for over two months pretty much straight so when that cleared up my plants were not ready. Too many white flies and spider mites in the greenhouse so letting everything die til fall. Tried everything to rid myself of bugs but no luck. Not quitting just waiting til fall. Good luck to us all.
I was telling my family that I can not take our Artic Winters here in Western NY. I want to be a Snowwbird in a moderate climate between December through April. I think you are right we don't adjust at all to any extremes. I think we need to have a flexible plan.
My tomatoes aren't doing so well either. I did manage to get a couple small small tiny small bell peppers out of this. I also got a winter squash but it isn't ripe, but it is sitting in the sun. My corn isn't too tall yet, but its growing (I think). I have a LOT of cucumbers that are forming! Never seen so many of those on one vine but hey, God is good. I want to start seeing some watermelon though. I have a lemon tree, strawberries are almost done fruiting, and I have other herbs regrowing. Otherwise, its a dismal crop this year.
The sun and heat have changed. I'm 65 and it's hotter longer and comes sooner. I live in the high desert of Southern California. I get winds all the time. We're about 95 right now and will stay in that average until about September. Then I get occasional snow. I have very sandy soil. I can't have a hoop house because of the winds so my growing time is literally April to July now. It sucks.
We all must ask God. Just walk by faith not by sight. God loves us. He knows what is best. He cares about you me and us all and will give you ideas and keep you put in your spirit what He wants for you all I will pray for us all
I agree, those stories of cattle not surviving PFAS from composted city-biosolids are quite unpleasant to hear. I forget how many years it took but hopefully I didn't eat any of that meat or drink any of that milk produced off that contaminated grass/soil.
Hey Neighbor! In the BIG Scheme of things… your tomatoes look pretty good! It is Beastly Hot. Index today and tomorrow in far East Texas will be 110-ish. Week of the 4th of July will be a scorcher! Be Heat Wise! Thinking of y’all!
It’s hot but I feel a cool breeze…like fall is coming. I don’t think it’s going to be a steady and unbearable sizzling hot summer like the last two years.
In Arizona, my cherry tomatoes are still producing, everything else is almost gone. I think I have one more picking of my Amish. It was a good month of tomato sandwiches though! 😀
Hi Jill, my zucchini looks the same- big old green bush but no fruit. My tomatoes are done but I still have a lot of cherry tomatoes. Yes, it’s super hot and the garden is coming to an end. What can I start for fall? Three digits all week here. God bless you! Great video.
My milk cow refuses to leave the pond where she is standing to come to the barn for milking. Frankly i dont blame her. Garden. Is struggling. Green beans just quit .
I'm a new subscriber. I am also new at gardening. the main trouble I have is knowing when to plant what. I started following your channel knowing that your location is the same as mine, and I mean close! We were hit by the tornado that you recently mentioned that's how I know, anyway in this video you said you are about to start planting your fall vegetables could you make a video when you start that and let us what you are planting, please, so that I can do the same. I am totally enjoying your videos thank you in advance.
For past two years, nothing is growing for me. Either they do not come up or just do not grow or fruit. I changed soil, but nothing helped. This year my beans and corn came up quick and looked beautiful, but began to tassel too quick and now have about died out. They get regular water. My beans shot up, but then shriveled up. Never flowered. I only have a tiny garden, but it used to be so productive. At same time, the paint on my house is blistered, bubbling up and looks like some areas got scorched. I have never seen my paint do that before. We do seem to have a lot of planes lately leaving vapor trails in a grid pattern overhead. Not sure if that has been issue with paint and plants.
Do you ever use shade cloth over your tomatoes? I’m in zone 8b just below you in East Texas, I just put shade cloth over my tomatoes, I’m hoping it will help. I planted my tomatoes a little late in March so I’ve only got a handful so far.
