np307
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Gotta be some advantages to this heat. Gonna be almost 100 Friday with full humidity.
2026 Garden
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IDFireLass
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brymoore my garden looks the same. I do have tubs over the cantaloupe and watermelons.
Ohhh. Forgot about the watermelon and cantelope in the landscaping…
IDFireLass
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It's so windy here today I have whitecaps on the bird bath. So far all the frost blankets are staying in place. Chased a bunny out of the Amish House(bought it from the Amish) so that's it's name.
I really don't blame the bunny warm and out of the wind. But I could see my Mexican Sour cucumbers being munched on. Fed everything that wasn't under a blanket this morning. 30 mph wind gusts just aren't fun today.
I really don't blame the bunny warm and out of the wind. But I could see my Mexican Sour cucumbers being munched on. Fed everything that wasn't under a blanket this morning. 30 mph wind gusts just aren't fun today.
90s and humid with storms and winds up to 70 heading my way. I really need to get out there and weed but it's too hot and muddy from the rain we got so far. I have steel roofing panels laid between the rows to cut the weeds and to have a dry place to walk when picking, so it's only weedy in the actual rows of veggies. I'll get to it eventually.
Garden work has been pushed back for a while. If I have one left. No idea how much rain we got or when it will stop. I am pumping water out of my basement and my ditches are full and running over the road. I now have riverfront property!
BigHornRam
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Started cutting lettuce a couple days ago. Sweet corn is starting to come up. Will it be knee high by the 4th of July? Doubt it.
Got lucky here at my place and just had some wind and a little rain. Had a guy here buying my Harley and we were watching for a window for him to ride home! My daughter had a close call, though. They live south of me 25 miles and had a tornado right at the edge of town. Tore up some stuff in the country but nothing in town itself. Streator, where I go for groceries now and then got hit by one. Guess it tore things up and I heard rumors of a death.
Washburn tornado by my daughter.
Washburn tornado by my daughter.
IDFireLass
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WOW! Don't like them things. Glad everyone is okay.
Pucky Freak
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np307
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Lettuce didnt appreciate the heat today. Thankfully it'll be short-lived but still. And surprise, surprise those thunderstorms are now going around us it looks like. Dry as dust here. 
Straight Arrow
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Flowers are nice.
But can't wait 'til strawberries produce.
But can't wait 'til strawberries produce.
The tornadoes that hit around me were both EF3. Streator had some houses destroyed and some injuries but no fatalities. The one by my daughter's house went through and crossed the highway going right through the middle of a brand new solar farm. Ripped out a section of the wire fence and stripped the crops out of the field.
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This year is going to be a rough gardening year. Review of the garden shows a complete corn seed failed germination in three boxes. We used year old seed. We’ll buy new seed and try with a prayer to get corn before a frost.
I did a fruit tree walk. Complete failure there too. I found one, ONE!, apple. Otherwise, no apples, cherries, pears or peaches. We had a few days of weird frost timing that killed all the flowers. First time this has ever happened.
Good news - garden fruit is great - strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They’re be lots of ice cream and fruit, cobblers and canning the rest.
New weedeater finally arrived and I was able to clean up the garden. It looks kept finally.
Broccoli and strawberries need picked currently. Green beans seeds arrived and need planted too (first crop failure).
I did a fruit tree walk. Complete failure there too. I found one, ONE!, apple. Otherwise, no apples, cherries, pears or peaches. We had a few days of weird frost timing that killed all the flowers. First time this has ever happened.
Good news - garden fruit is great - strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They’re be lots of ice cream and fruit, cobblers and canning the rest.
New weedeater finally arrived and I was able to clean up the garden. It looks kept finally.
Broccoli and strawberries need picked currently. Green beans seeds arrived and need planted too (first crop failure).
