Okay, this isn’t fun anymore!
It’s hard to keep our nursery plants happy in this heat. Despite repeated watering they’re getting burned leaves. It’s also not raining. There is some possible rain coming up in the forecast, but I don’t have much hope. It keeps getting deferred. Even the sunn hemp has about given up and is going to bloom at only a foot or so in height.
On the bright side, I’m getting some writing done since gardening is not tempting right now.
I’m working on a little book titled The Easy Way to Plant a Food Forest, since there seems to be a lot of interest in bypassing all the complicated food forest planning and getting right to it. It’s an inspiring little guide to getting started without analysis paralysis. I hope to have it finished in the next week or so, then we’ll see how long it takes to get published.
Catch you soon.
-DTG
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Ridiculous. Brutal. Not even attempting second garden down on the gulf at this point, unless some serious change. Nice thing is the yard does not need mowing. Even the grass cannot handle this heat. Had couple of rains a few weeks back. 1/4 inch one day, half inch the next. The kind you do not normally even notice. No significant rain for a couple of months now. We had bad late freeze here and lost our early start. I am so glad we jumped right back in and got a good harvest from the early garden. Peppers and okra are the only vegetables enjoying this year.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad here too. If we had rain, the cassava and sweet potatoes would do much better. But this baking heat and the drought is too much.