Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods Chat Summer 2012 Part 1, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
We came from here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1261516/#new

98 degrees here today. No rain. Humidity rolls in tomorrow. No rain next ten days. Everything is dry dry dry. My plants seem to be hunkering down rather than growing profusely. Potatoes are only happy garden veggie. I'm asking questions that other gardeners have asked when faced with a very dry summer.....What plants to save with supplemental watering?

So, what is on your list of must/will saves? How much time, really, do you log in watering each day/week? I have no lawn, so I don't count that into the mix. I am very aware this year that I need to have a regular program of deep watering or many of my plantings won't survive, let alone the demands of multiple containers to drench once or twice daily.

I hate to say this, it almost doesn't matter how my garden does this summer as it is too hot for me to enjoy it anyway! Seems I've been keeping my plantings alive for the last several years as if the extended periods of excessive heat were only temporary and "regular" summers would be back on track soon. Hummm, a bit of denial?

Would love to hear others perspectives and weather and effects on you and your gardening or anything else you'd like to mention or chat about. Probably your computer like mine is in an air conditioned space! So cool off and chat a spell!

This message was edited Jun 28, 2012 11:40 PM