Anyone else worried about the seemingly hot, hot summer approaching? If this is Spring, I'm afraid of what Summer will hold. I've got ALOT of new plants in my garden this year, and I'm concerned that they'll get cooked to death!
=0 MKJ
TEMPS!
According to www.wunderground.com, it's suppose to drop back to 86 by Thursday.
I am worried - more then one old timer told me it is going to get really hot and stay there... hope they are not right.
Let's plan on lots of mulch - keeping the root temps down by 10 degrees makes a big difference in helping the plants struggle through. And keep ourselves safe during the hottest part of the day - heat stroke is bad news!
I've worried about this with my tomato plants. I have them in containers should I do something to reduce the amount of sun? Or heat? It's already been in the mid 90's here and by June/July it's going to be egg fryin hot.
Yes boys and girls, it is HOT! Think we just got spoiled by the unusually long and cool Spring? When it finally heated up, it REALLY heated up!
Guess we are spoiled, Maggiemoo! lol AND HOT! If my new stuff.......perennials like gaura, weigela & coreopsis hybrids don't make it, I'll be steaming hot too! >=/
Maybe misting would help your tomatoes, araness? I don't know ANYthing about tomatoes......but doesn't misting help w/transpiration? That's what I have to do w/my fuchsia & streptocarpella.
Sweating, MKJ
It's HOT when I stay inside! I don't have much to do now, other than mulch and wait, and I haven't done either until about 7pm. I think it's going to be pretty hot this year. I think 3/4 of my stuff will be fine since most of it is returning perennials. The new parts of my back bed are drying quick and I'm having to water a lot, but hopefully I can mulch it enough to keep them from dying. I've not been able to really mulch yet since I'm still waiting on tons of seeds to come up! Lots are started so I am sprinkling compost and mulch around them without smothering them.
My greatest fear is a repeat of summer of 1980........we hit 103 Saturday, and 100 on Sunday. Temps we normally don't see until mid June to July1st.
When planting, think heat and drought tolerate.......lean towards xeriscaping.
Water Trops and tenders, early and deep...........and keep a big jug of cold water handy at all times!! Keep safe out there!!
"eyes"
Wow Eyes, you were hotter than we were! I thought 96 was bad! It is very hot here, and we had high winds yesterday. They say a high pressure is stalled out over us.
My poor plants were so wilted. I grabbed the water hose and gave them a drink being careful not to wet the leaves and they recovered.
Because we had such a cool spring, the plants are in shock. But at least the perennials will be happy. The past few years the springs have been abnormally cool. Typically, by late May it should be in the 90s. I too am fearful of a long hot summer and a drought. Last, year we lucked out.
Don't think I can mist the leaves but I'll ask Tplant, he's just got done beating me cause I was watering from the top soo...*bad bad bad Saint*
I agree that our Spring was particularly pleasant this year, but yesterday it was HOT! My Gaura are very content and don't seem to be affected so far. My Petunias in a large pot with the Miracle Gro Moisture Control soil seem to be taking it the hardest. I keep watering, but as the summer progresses, I don't think I will be able to keep up. The ones in the ground seem to be taking it in stride. It did get really hot all of a sudden. Weatherman said this morning (at least on the channel that I was watching) that by Friday we will cool off to 90 degrees, but with the humidity so high, it still feels really hot and we have a whole 20% chance of rain on Friday. I think they just say that to give us hope.
I am with you guys. I know it should be this temperature this late in May, but I am afraid of a LONG, HOT summer.
My Dad just called from his cruise in Alaska rubbing it in that it's a wonderful 50 degrees where he is. Just for that he's not getting a Father's Day gift! *G*
There's clouds here today...no complaining from me! I'm putting out compost and mulch.
I've already had a wilted plant emergency...at least I thought it was. My newly emerged hibiscus was almost laying on the ground Saturday. It has a new thick layer of peat moss and a moung of mulch. It did okay today at 102, but I agree...I think this will be a broiling hot summer. Yikes.
Oh, yuck--102........................'=o
I guess I don't have it as bad as I thought. It only hit 95 here today. But I'm still going out in the morning in a hunt for shade cloth. I have only lived here two years and last summer was hot but it didn't start this soon. I just keep telling myself that's is only MAY!
Shade cloth?
We just put one over the patio - its a sun screen fabric - lets light and water through but stops the sun shining through - particularly UV rays. Available by the running foot at 6ft wide from Lowes. - It works too!!!!!
Carol
I've got solar screens on several windows and I love them. They work great, but when it rains you can't see out of them. I love having them in my bedroom because you can see out the window, but not in, so the birds can not see me (or my cats) looking at them.
we have the tinting on all the windows except the front of the house and it makes a difference in the heat upstairs. Of course it also helps the bedrooms be dark as caves which I like.
Okus how close is your weather to ours? I was wondering because you know I purchased my seeds from a guy in Keller and the seeds I planted seem to handle the heat better than the plants I bought from Bonnie Plant Farms which is in Central Alabama. Was wondering if the plants could already be more climatized than the Bonnies.
Another plus to a shade cloth is while it allows the rain to pass through it "cushions" some of the impact of the droplet. Ours can hit pretty hard so this helps.
Saint
I think we may get slightly hotter at times in summer and cooler in winter. Its the winter temp that does the zoning. I'm told that there have been years when we have had 80 consecutive days with temps over 100 here.
Carol
Ok that's just to darn hot...
It was on the news this past Saturday that it was the hottest day ever recorded for our area which was 96. I hope it is not a sign of what the remainder of the spring and summer will be like. My plants are showing signs of stress from the extreme heat which came so quickly. We had so many ideal days with cool nights and now all of a sudden it is like an oven outside. We also could use a good rain to soak the ground.
I know the Orange area is pose (or that's what the weather guy said last night) to start having a little rain. I hope so cause it's hotter n' hades and my water bill is going to be sky high with all this watering.
Saint
BrugNanny, "remainder of spring"? What remainder? Spring is over and out for TX! :-)
I think we're all missing that usual period of mourning we'd have, that would prepare us for the furnace of summer. You know, the three days between pleasant temps and intolerable heat?