What did you do in the garden today?

Get ready for the sauna! Heat index of 109 - yeah baby I can't wait to sweat my ass off, just can't wait!!!


I'm making an offical declaration by executive decision right now.

From this day 25 July in the year 2018, henceforth. The last Friday of the month of July shall be declared National Lazy Day (NLD). Whereby you are to spend the entire NLD doing absolutely nothing in the comfort of your air conditioned dwelling.

CrealCritter said:

Get ready for the sauna! Heat index of 109 - yeah baby I can't wait to sweat my ass off, just can't wait!!!

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I'll mark my calendar for NLD....yes.

CrealCritter said:

Maybe...A couple of hose clamps and a length of intertube to connect the two should work... Your not after high pressure, just enough pressure so you don't have to shelp water in buckets from here to there.

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Sounds good to me! I ended up watering the lawn this evening. And then the rest of the garden, all of it. Took me 2 hours and about 30 trips out with a watering can and bucket full of water (gallon each). The forecast now says it may rain next Wednesday only?!?

6" of precipitation in 2 days. Everything is turning yellow in the garden but the grass is in hog heaven.

Farmer Connie said:

6" of precipitation in 2 days. Everything is turning yellow in the garden but the grass is in hog heaven.

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Yep, same here. My squash, beans, and cucumbers may pull through.

I'm in your boat for rain~yes, pun intended, fellas, except for the high winds...blessedly we've not had much of those. We've had over a month of rains, every day or every other day, and they keep getting more torrential as time goes on~today it just poured buckets once again. We live on a ridge line but every pair of shoes I own is and has been wet for so long I'm surprised I don't have jungle rot. Had to gather them all up this weekend and wash/bleach them all....they tend to sour in this humid, wet, hot weather.

Dogs are wet, chickens are wet(hard to find dusting spots for either group when all the spots are filled with water, and even the cats look a little annoyed by all the water.

Now, the garden, which would have been just one huge jungle filled with blight if I was still using the wood chips, is blessedly looking pretty good. Not much blight on the lower leaves of the tomatoes...I've pruned off any that I see. The hay creates a mat that prevents water from splashing up onto the plants. Everything is growing strong and tall, tomatoes look better than they have in 4 yrs, squash and pumpkins are growing huge and producing like crazy...and the pest bugs seem to be at a minimum, maybe due to the torrential rains? It's like living in the tropics right now...hot, humid, and very, very wet..so the plants are all responding accordingly and growing into a jungle.

All the gardens across the state are also looking great...things are growing, can't spot any blight on spuds or maters as I drive by. The cornfields and hay fields in WV and VA are looking phenomenal from all this rain...but folks are struggling to get hay cut and baled~let alone in the barn~ between rain storms. I predict good prices on mulch hay this fall and next spring.

I can't wait to see what the weather is going to be like on Wednesday

Not good - headed straight for Creal nothing any good comes from the north west. Me no like Yankee storms. I just moved the vehicles out from under trees.

Animals are all acting weird, huddled together I tight circles and not moving. Thunder is strong and frequent off in the distance, sky is turning pee green. I don't have a good feeling about this storm at all.

We are headed for the root cellar, tornado sirens are going off. If you don't hear from me I might have been blown into the next county.