A beautiful day to be in the gardens — a slight breeze from the northeast and a perfect day to spray my preventative copper fungicide on just about everything I grow except basil and okra. Okra is very hearty and doesn’t need copper fungicide, and basil doesn’t get it for two reasons: the leaves burn
Yesterday I got up at my usual time — let’s just say it was still dark out. Of course I looked at the weather report. Both my phone’s weather app and the weather TV app I watch reported a lot of rain with a total of 2 inches. Since it was supposed to start around
A partly sunny day with a low of 70°F and a high of 90°F. I am catching up on what I’ve done over the weekend. One other thing to note about the weather was the sudden storm that came through with 70 mph straight‑line winds on Saturday evening. Some cities received 3 inches of rain
Mostly sunny. Low 74, high 92°F. Phew, I am glad the heat dome seems to be done for now. It looks like we are now in the low 90s—our typical weather. Now that I have acclimated to 100+°F, 92 feels rather cool. 🙂 No unusual nature sightings to report today, just the usual gardening. I
According to the weather report, today is supposed to be 100°F, with a low of 75°F. After today we will be back in our normal range of low to mid‑90s, with lows in the low 70s. Okay, it is still hot, but for me it’s more manageable. From predawn to 10:30 a.m. I was doing
A little cloudy today, and according to the weather report a cold front is trying to work its way through this morning, but the low is 80°F and the high will be 98°F. Yesterday we broke a record for this year as it reached 101°F. With the northwesterly wind I feel cooler already! 🙂 Seriously,
What can I say but another super-hot day near 100°F. Today I changed my routine as far as watering. I was doing the watering just before I leave, but I found out that watering before 8 AM is better as the ground is wet with dew and helps absorb the water easier. This took me
Weather: Low 78°F — High 96°F — Sunny Still a heat dome, and you know what that means. I was going to spray today, but I didn’t because it’s way too hot and could burn the plants even early in the morning. The minimum safe low for spraying is 74°F. At sunrise it was already
Weather — Sunny, low 78 and high 95. The same old dog‑days heat dome where I am being very mindful of the heat advisories. Since I didn’t have any early‑morning spraying today, I was able to start a high‑intensity chore while it was still “coolish.” I try to balance easy chores with hard ones, doing
Weather: Low 76°F — High 98°F — Sunny A heat dome is sitting over Tennessee until next week, with no rain in sight. The days are getting shorter, and honestly, I think the plants are loving the shorter daylight during this heat wave. I arrived at the Pickle Patch before dawn, which is getting close
