One of the hardest things is keeping the garden from literally cooking. Winnie and I went around last week covering everything we could with some form of shade. So now our garden looks like this.
Thankfully it's worked too and with nightly watering the garden is holding in there.
One of my main concerns were the blackberries, they were just coming on to getting ripe and I didn't want all that lovely fruit to fry to nothing. Some of it still shows signs of withering but they are not the dessicated husks that would have been left if we didn't cover them.
Hi Rose
ReplyDeleteYou can send some of that heat over this way, It's been bitter cold here for several weeks now. I've been staying indoors and I'm starting to get cabin fever.
Rich
Hi Rich
ReplyDeleteSo good to see you, and I would love to send some of this heat your way. I am getting sick of it now and the garden is really becoming... crispy.
We are heading into another week of high temps here, heading for 40c again this weekend. It's sad when you start to thing of 36c around 106f, as being not too hot. We have not seen rain for weeks now either, so the cracks are opening up in our yard and our house is on the move, The front door is again catching and sticking.
I hope we both start getting a break in our weather soon and you can again venture outside. For myself, I am dreaming of steady continuous rain and I think my plants are too.
About the only good thing is that the blackberries have been delicious.