What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Mother Nature is just taunting me now.... See this radar picture I just took? I'm located where the blue pin is at. According to this picture, I'm due east of a gully washer. Sounds great, right? EXCEPT when you animate the movement it shows this entire weather system staying in place where it's at and then simply evaporated altogether with ZERO chance of rainfall for my location. Not even a chance to reduce the temperature even a smidgen.

 

[Iluveggers]

Mother Nature is just taunting me now.... See this radar picture I just took? I'm located where the blue pin is at. According to this picture, I'm due east of a gully washer. Sounds great, right? EXCEPT when you animate the movement it shows this entire weather system staying in place where it's at and then simply evaporated altogether with ZERO chance of rainfall for my location. Not even a chance to reduce the temperature even a smidgen.

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That was me today up in NY also! Yesterday showed showers starting late last night and continuing all day today. When I woke up this morning, no rain, showers from 3pm-7pm. Ok fine, I won’t water. Well, that shower forecast disappeared too. I just watered the garden, maybe it will make it rain. Still again, annoying, but better than last year rain every day and nothing would grow. I think we had a 20 day rain streak. Puddles in the garden, slugs everywhere, veggies rotting…it was bad…

 

[Beaker99]

I had a similar experience on Sunday. We went inside out of fear of lightning. Lots of thunder... Not a drop fell.

 

[TJAnonymous]

The US Drought monitor just upgraded my county to a Moderate drought with no relief in sight for months

This is after 5.6" of rain above normal in May. I knew it was going to be a really bad year

 

[Eagle343]

Has any one used a net to keep bugs such as Japanese's beetles and deer off of fruit trees?

 

[Wolfie2]

Mother Nature is just taunting me now.... See this radar picture I just took? I'm located where the blue pin is at. According to this picture, I'm due east of a gully washer. Sounds great, right? EXCEPT when you animate the movement it shows this entire weather system staying in place where it's at and then simply evaporated altogether with ZERO chance of rainfall for my location. Not even a chance to reduce the temperature even a smidgen.

Happens to us also. I am about 10 miles off the coast. Southern winds seem to keep anything coming from the north from us. Houston (40 miles north) can be getting hammered with rain and we're gettin squat!

 

[Beaker99]

The US Drought monitor just upgraded my county to a Moderate drought with no relief in sight for months

This is after 5.6" of rain above normal in May. I knew it was going to be a really bad year

I'm just north of you in the Ozarks. It's so bad this year.

 

[Acre4Me]

Some pics from today:

One bean tower (all for dried beans), growing well. I think there are 2 or 3 varieties on this one.

a growing pumpkin! interesting that it is yellow! It should become a bright orange red color when full grown.

Gourds flowering for the night.

Kiku Chrysanthemum melon starting to grow. Should get to be about grapefruit size and when ripe, should taste like "Greek Yogurt"

A honeydew melon is wilting a bit - but only one vine! cut it off?

A ripening honey dew (I think) in another area of the garden.

Trombocino vining summer squash - makes a nice heart shape.

a Buttercup squash beginning to grow!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm just north of you in the Ozarks. It's so bad this year.

Yep. The storms dissipated without us getting a drop of rain.

At least we got a nice breeze out of it. My animals are very thankful for it, I think.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I even don't have AC at home. rarely use it in my car (on/off every 5 minutes). I am fine with heat.

My hubby's like that...a complete lizard. I can handle the heat...but I like a little ac here and there!

My Centennial sweet potatoes, which I planted from slips just over 3 months ago, have grown like weeds and, per their days-to-harvest schedule (90 days) should have been ready to harvest as of last week. I just went out to dig up one plant to see what was under it and...nothing. Not even so much as a wide spot in a single root. This is a shot of just one section of the root system, but they all look exactly the same. I'm not a happy camper.
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My sweet potatoes did that when I first planted them. I didn't yank them and the following spring they regrew...when I dug around a little I found huge fat tubers. Now I just leave them be and dig around the edges for tubers when I want to eat them. They regrow every spring on their own and I can dig sweet potatoes all year round. They handle low water conditions that way too. My permanent patch doesn't need as much water as plants started from slips.