What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

This heat brings back old memories. Growing up we had no AC until we got a window unit in 1968. We used to put a box fan in the bedrooms window and turn it on high blowing across the bed. Some people had a screened in porch they slept out there when it was really hot. My parents told of a summer in 1936 I think where people slept outside in the parks.

You were lucky. We survive hot nights with one fan in the dining room window blowing out, which pulled a tiny breath of air in through the bedroom windows.

Central air conditioning was finally installed in the house. After all of us kids had moved out. I guess they were just toughening us up.

 

[WthrLady]

I absolutely HATE hay duty... It's always so hot outside... And because I break out in an itchy, awful rash when there's skin contact with the grass, I have to wear long sleeves and pants. Not to mention that the bales are so heavy too... Ours are also 60 lbs. My DD and I usually have the job of pushing the bales to the end of the trailer and letting the menfolk actually stack them in the barn.

DONE.
OMG 6 hours out there today. At one point it felt like 120'F.
I did 1.5 hours, 1.5 hours, and then 2 hours baling, and DH helped me pick them up with the gator and mini trailer, so that's 6 bales a run. It took us 40 minutes in the near dark and dark to load them in the curing in the shed. I can still pick up and throw/stack 60 pounders.
I break out in a wicked rash too, but there's NO WAY I'm wearing even short sleeves or pants. Shorts and a tank. The million little pokes and scratches are shoving exactly what I'm allergic to right into my skin. It's awesome.
BUT I'm currently NOT itchy. We'll see if that lasts. Hurray for allergy shots!?
I will nivage before bed though.

 

[HenHouse Henry]

Pulled up garlic, picked first zucs, tomatoes still green. Prepping a couple of beds for fall/winter crops. Picked more lavender, now that my oregano is blooming so the bees are happy. Collect nasturtium seeds for next year. Pretty mild summer, a couple of days ago rain, and stayed under 70

 

[WthrLady]

You were lucky. We survive hot nights with one fan in the dining room window blowing out, which pulled a tiny breath of air in through the bedroom windows.

Central air conditioning was finally installed in the house. After all of us kids had moved out. I guess they were just toughening us up.

July 24th 1936 people sleeping on the Statehouse lawn in Lincoln, pre AC ( although theaters had it) the LOW for the night was a HUMID 90', and the brick tower apartments held the heat downtown.
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We has AC on the house (new build) in the early 70s, but my mom rarely ran it. She thought it cost too much. My dad worked outside all day and one day DEMANDED it be turned on. It was only costing $5 a day. And OMG what a difference it made to be able to come home and breathe. Our schools didn't have AC, neither did our cars.

 

[TJAnonymous]

DONE.
OMG 6 hours out there today. At one point it felt like 120'F.
I did 1.5 hours, 1.5 hours, and then 2 hours baling, and DH helped me pick them up with the gator and mini trailer, so that's 6 bales a run. It took us 40 minutes in the near dark and dark to load them in the curing in the shed. I can still pick up and throw/stack 60 pounders.
I break out in a wicked rash too, but there's NO WAY I'm wearing even short sleeves or pants. Shorts and a tank. The million little pokes and scratches are shoving exactly what I'm allergic to right into my skin. It's awesome.
BUT I'm currently NOT itchy. We'll see if that lasts. Hurray for allergy shots!?
I will nivage before bed though.

I can stack the 60 pounders too... For about the first 20-30. Then I'm done. I help push bales after that. We typically only buy just shy of 200 bales each summer. Probably a drop in the bucket compared to you and others... But it takes 4 of us a good 45 minutes to an hour to get it all unloaded and stacked. My youngest weighs 90 lbs so she can't stack but she CAN help push bales to the end of the trailer so DH and DS can grab them.

 

[WthrLady]

I can stack the 60 pounders too... For about the first 20-30. Then I'm done. I help push bales after that. We typically only buy just shy of 200 bales each summer. Probably a drop in the bucket compared to you and others... But it takes 4 of us a good 45 minutes to an hour to get it all unloaded and stacked. My youngest weighs 90 lbs so she can't stack but she CAN help push bales to the end of the trailer so DH and DS can grab them.

This was a very light year. But it will do us.

 

[CNJ]

My Pineapple tomato that I was patiently waiting for finally turned ripe. I grafted a Pineapple tomato scoin onto a spoon tomato root stock and clipped the top off after it set 2 fruits because the spoon tomato root stock was to skinny to support anymore fruit.

I tasted one of the fruit and it wasn't what I was expecting. Its too mild for my liking, and needs a pinch of salt to bring out the taste.

I will stop watering the plant and wait for the last fruit to ripen. I may have over watered the plant, since the tomato tasted bland. The fruit was yellow and weighed about a pound.

Once this Pienapple tomato turns ripe, it must be eaten, it won't last long on the counter.

 

[CNJ]

I am going to gow dwarf tomatos next, but it may be to hot. My growing months start in October.

 

[Sueby]

This heat brings back old memories. Growing up we had no AC until we got a window unit in 1968. We used to put a box fan in the bedrooms window and turn it on high blowing across the bed. Some people had a screened in porch they slept out there when it was really hot. My parents told of a summer in 1936 I think where people slept outside in the parks.

Same here! I remember the box fans & how bad the house stunk like the nearby chicken barns in the am.

Oh, I just added 2' of chicken wire to the bottom of our existing fence. We don't have deer. Rabbits are my culprits. Yes! It will be much easier after the garden has died back. So sorry about your strawberries.

Thunderstorms... again. At least we haven't lost our power. Yet.

Ah, I got it. I thought of doing that too but my fencings time is up anyway.

@WthrLady glad the haying is done! I can't even pick green beans or a couple cucumbers without my arms turning into itchy rashes, can't imagine haying anymore.

Got up early & watered & picked a few beans. Put water containers into the freezer for the birds for later. I have no intentions on going back out there till Sunday, lol. Well except to bring the girls ice.

I do think the cucumber beetles are getting to my plants. There are just a couple random leaves all shriveled up. Whatever, I can't fight them, just happy to have gotten what I've gotten so far!

 

[Sueby]

Has anyone tried wrapping cucumbers to keep longer? I've heard wrapping in paper towel & then ziplock can help. Just wondering if anyone has tried. Or maybe saran wrap.