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Comments (4)Nineties for the next week or so. Today 4:45 my time, just now, 94ú with 12% humidity - Red Flag warnings. July is usually a hottie and the days are still long enough to make every day last forever....See MoreToday's Gardening Weather
Comments (15)Susan, I hope your sister has better luck than last year. It was bad enough to go through it then and I hope they don't flood again. And if YOUR rainfall this month is anywhere close to what it was last June, it is a wonder your plants aren't just throwing in the towel and giving up. I don't know what to tell you about that tomato plant. Sometimes they just behave that way, and the more rain you get, the more likely it will continue. Tomatoes really don't like to be wet--neither their roots nor their leaves. It amazes me that they grow as well as they do in our gardens. In their natural habitats they don't get a lot of direct moisture on the foliage, but instead get rainfall run off from the rain forest mountains. I have about 140 tomato plants and most of them look great, but there are two or three that look so bad that I am going to pull them up if this rain doesn't turn them around. They look similar to your description of your sickly plant. It does seem like a pretty bad bug year. In our case, it is the bugs that don't usually appear in great numbers until July or August, and they began appearing in May, including stinkbugs, which can ruin a tomato crop. (sigh) I am sure the wacky weather has something to do with the confused bloom cycles of plants and the massively successful bug reproduction cycles that are producing large amounts of pests this year. I have always felt like Lemon Trees are NOT as slow growing as you'd expect. Perhaps they grow pretty well vegetatively for the first few years and then slow down? I'm glad yours is doing so well. Scott, It is HERE! Rain, lightning, moderate winds, thunder, power's gone out only once and it came right back on, and no hail so far. It's been raining about 20 minutes and I wouldn't mind if it rained for 20 hours. : ) The rain keeps knocking out the satellite TV, so I'm stuck watching the local CBS affiliate, which is the only channel we can pick up without the satellite (we are WAY down in the Red River Valley where TV reception is almost non-existent). No wonder we have only had 14" of rain this year....you've been having all of your rain and all of ours too! I think, if I added up our rain totals from July 1st of last year until now, it would be in the 20" to 25" range. To me, 70" sounds out of this world. I've have to go back and see what we have for May 2007 through June 2008, but it won't even approach 70"--maybe 35". For all that I whine about not getting enough rain, I am grateful we aren't flooding like Iowa. It is hard to comprehend that 1300 city blocks are flooded in Cedar Rapids, or that 1/3 the state is flooded. It just boggles the mind. I feel so bad for the people there. I would imagine the farmers and gardeners are frustrated beyond belief, and their crops and gardens most likely aren't even their biggest worries at this point. I think that the one-year anniversary of the Gainesville Texas (just across the Red River from us) Flood is this week, and DH, DS and I were there, though not all at the same time. I will never forget it and hope never to see flooding like that again. It was horrifying. Scott, how much more can your trees in the bottomlands take? I would think that they are beginning to enter the danger zone for being wet too many days/weeks/months in the last two years. Dawn (from RAINY southern Oklahoma)...See MoreWhat is Your Weather Like Today?
Comments (48)We got a storm come in last nite from Texas! Too funny. I'm in Canada and we haven't had winter yet. I hate it, I want snow and cold. Last nite brought freezing rain and snow and sleet. The temperature is rising and is now 1C. I went out and shoveled, and it's deep slushy wet snow. Ugly. Very heavy and laborious. The cars are wading through wet snow and ruts but it will all melt today. There aren't any ski hills opened yet, they're really praying for cold weather to make snow....See MoreToday is our 100th day of summer weather
Comments (10)Bart, "wasted unit" about describes me, too. Even though with our recent cooler temperatures it's pleasant in the shade and in the house, I completely lack energy, want to sleep all the time, and start feeling sick if I exert myself and then have to go sit in front of the fan to recover. It may be mild illness, but I'm wondering if my body just hasn't had enough heat (and sunlight!). DD is also prostrate. Not DH though: truly is he the Energizer Bunny in my family. Our very own comune is apparently one of the driest places in northern Italy. I'm sorry that this summer is so hard on you, and on your garden. It will end one day. Some other plants showing good drought tolerance: Mediterranean fan palm (Chaemerops humilis), in part shade, and Chinese fan palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), though this latter may be profiting from being in the neighborhood of the faucet; Ceanothus thyrsiflora repens, somewhat protected from full sun. Also the Japanese persimmon in front of the house looks good, though I imagine it's getting a trickle of water, being just below the watered pots under the wisteria pergola. Italian pines (Pinus pinea). I have really been impressed by the climbing roses planted on the balcony way back in 2003-04; not a drop of extra water, and they're green and solidly flourishing, though flowerless. 'Jaune Desprez', 'Noella Nabonnand', 'Marechal Niel'; and 'Crepuscule' around the corner. I attribute this to their age and to their never having been watered after their first year, which our normally good average rainfall allows us to do. They must have mighty root systems. Almost nothing can be perfectly happy growing in full sun and wind, on a steep southfacing slope. This describes the big garden. Survival is about all one can hope for. Only the pines and cypresses look reasonably contented. Shade is really important! Also doing well, in shade: Iris japonica 'Variagata' and agapanthus 'Blue Shades'. There's also a Persicaria there, 'Painter's Palette' type: this has burned and wilted at times, but overall has done pretty well. P.S. Cross post with Jackie. Thanks for the moral support, and from you, Totoro. I know you folks in California have been through this, and understand. I'm even sicker of sun than of heat, if that's possible....See More- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
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