Finally got a little rain. We heard the 'boomers' way off and DH said we're going to get some rain and I told him I'd believe it when I see it. Anything helps. Hope it headed your way, GG.
As of today...
Raining very nicely here...
It won't rain here until October or November....so.....
enjoy your rain!
Jan and Janice, we got 27/100ths. Better than nothing but we could sure have used more! Still, it's nice and fresh out there this morning!
We had a couple of hours a spritz, then a couple of hours of drizzle, followed by about 3 hours of gentle rain. Then when I was drifting off to sleep at 10, there was a nice rainfall hitting the roof. Still raining (or possibly raining again) when I woke at 2am, and this morning everything looks lovely. The birds and crickets are going at it in harmony, and the plants are sitting up tall and showing off, and the cat's pissed! (Oh, well, can't please all the "people" all the time, and last night just wan't your turn! Shoulda come in when I was calling you and you just looked at me with your furry little attitude!)
LOL
gonna be a scorcher!
If I run around in the sprinkler and get wet, does that count as rain?
Heading out o water now that I've finished work....Going to 100 degrees today... no rain... uuuggghhhh!
Steph - only for you. The plants will know better!
Even though it was a wee chilly last night when i walked the dogs in the rain - it was great! I was drenched when we came in, but it was so nice to drenched from rain watr than sweat! Today we're suffering @ 90+ degrees, but tomorrow's suposed to start a cool down for a few days. Gasp...
Approx. 92 days til Fall!
Come on down to Phoenix - we're forecast to be 110° tomorrow. That will be the hottest day of the year so far. Better than last year when we had those temps in April!
I will not complain, I will not complain, I will NOT complain.....LOL
Jan23, I grew up on the east coast (Maine) and still visit every year in August. So, I definitely know all about that sweltering humidity and can't say that I miss it. Phoenix is so hot in the summertime it's unbelievable, but it's easy to tell yourself how nice it is here the other 8 months of the year! Plus, we have A/C everywhere - lol. You go from a/c in your house to a/c in your car to a/c at work/the store/the movies...
I just hole up inside when it gets like this, except when I go out to the garden. Very thankful for AC.
It's almost 7pm here and it's still 97º.
I try to do my gardening first thing in the morning, when I go out to feed the chickens at around 6 or 6:15. I can get a lot done then because it's cooler. Today I had to go into town to run errands and go food shopping, and after that I came back home and pretty much stayed inside. It was in the 90's and very close. DH had said he was going to stay inside and then spent most of the afternoon out there working on a tractor. Men!
Argh! It hit 110° today - I am so dreading tomorrow........
ouch -- 79 at the hottest here today and I was having a heat stroke!
youse guys can have the heat!
We love to share.
Last evening as I walked the dog, I could feel a hot, dry wind blowing through the garden. If I closed my eyes, I could have sworn I was in Nevada!
This is not good :( I dread to think what my water bill is going to be!
Uh, Bee, I've seen all sorts of neat rain barrel instruction sites. One guy put his together in 30 minutes, and it is super simple. You might wanna check 'em out:
$10 Garbage Can Rain Barrel
http://gravitygarden.com/rainbucket/?page_id=46
Rain Barrel with faucet attached http://engineeredgarden.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-rain-barrel.html
"Save the water..."
I harvested all of my bush beans yesterday. Ended up with 3 qt-sized bags of frozen green beans! Much better than last year's harvest of about 30 green beans...period!
Oh, my! That must be gratifying after the previous year.
I had a BIG chuckle at my neighbor's expense. She planted one pea plant!!! I laughed so hard I darn near peed my panties! I think she's harvesting 2-3 peas a day!
That's hysterical, Sequee! What DID she think she was doing?
Beans are one of my most prolific crops. I don't know how many pint bags I froze last year, but I've been giving those away five packages at a time to my daughter to make room for this year's veggies. This year we ended up with twelve 6 oz. bags of peas and three from last year that got lost in the back of the freezer, so we'll use those up first. The vines are now drying up to provide me with some seeds for next year, and then I'll pull them.
It's about 100 here today, so I'm not going back out unless I have to.
Do NOT laugh at someone who only planted one pea plant...I planted FIVE and got two pea pods...
Okay, Linda, but you gotta wonder about someone who only planted ONE! C'mon, now!
Might be a bit hot for peas in your area?
I planted at the wrong time. I think I need to plant the end of August and let 'em work into the cool of fall...
Peas - I direct seed the first crop around October 1st. You can plant earlier here if it's not too hot. Last year was too hot - lol... I can succession plant through mid-February. I've found though that the spring planted ones really need to be early varieties cuz you never know with our weather when it will get hot. Last year it was early April. This year we were into June before we got really hot.
Thanks, kelly. What kind of peas did you plant? Wasn't it the Wandos?
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As I was rip-snortin' away, she went on to explain that it was the only one to germinate, and she was darned if she was going to toss it. [Then, of course I felt bad for laughing at her (HA!), so I gave her several hundred to supplement what she had.]
How kind of you, Janice! Germination can definitely be a problem; I've got huge gaps in my chard and beet rows. Yuk!
That was mighty nice of you Sequee!
Linda - I think I planted Lincoln, Green Arrow, another I can't remember and a couple of different Sugar Snap peas...
Ok.
g_g ~ You have the right idea...get up and get out early...that is about the only time it is nice and with no mosquitoes...in the evening there are sections that get watered, and as well there are times when I have an ongoing project that I start in the morning and then go out late in the afternoon when it starts to cool down a bit and the buzzers are fierce! Has anyone tried those little mosquito repellers you see on TV? Do they work?
Steph ~ I am behind, as I don't even have my string beans planted yet, and the bush beans are not up yet, just barely showing...since we had those late snowfalls in May...everything is behind, as well as I am...LOL!
Yeah, all of you with the rain...are you saving it with rain barrels, terracing or by any other means? The gulf area will eventually affect the quality of water, so please save all you can my any means possible...
Tomatoes raised from seed indoors...just getting going now that the weather is warm now.....
A very lovely seedling!
Kelly,
Pop over to our new thread and give us an idea of the activities we need to be engaged in before our fall plantout!
Ev,
Check out the Zone 8-9a/b Fall/Winter 2010 thread and join us on the next leg of our journey together.
Linda
I figure that you need to plant about twice as many plants as you think you need just to get enough to enjoy! LOL Between things not germinating, pests, and other garden problems, about half of what you plant doesn't perform or gets destroyed. That's why my garden looks like a jungle right now! LOL
Evelyn, the only problem with early mornings around here is that often there are gnats, although they seem to have dissipated now. I find that Skin So Soft really helps both with them and mosquitoes.
It was about 100 here today so I didn't get much done outside. Tomorrow the forecast is for 88, which is an improvement.
The only problem with early mornings here, is that it comes too early in the morning!
~:-) I don't do mornings...
Got up at 5:45, fed the chickens, checked the baby chicks, looked for squash bugs and eggs, and pruned and tied up tomatoes. Now to change, make breakfast, and get off to my meeting by 7:30. We DO do mornings, in spades!