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Fri Jun 15 2007

I'm hiding out in exactly the same way a person might who is living through a severe cold spell.

Only for us it's heat.

102 degrees to be exact.

You just can't go outside and do anything.

My poor plants are gasping. Their roots are in moist soil, but it doesn't matter. They just can't suck up water fast enough to compensate for the heat.

I hate to see them suffer.

But I know by nightfall, they will all look better.

But I'm annoyed by this kind of heat when some of the tomatoes are blooming. Poor blossoms can't take it. I was hoping to get ahead of the heat this year.

But as Robert Burns once said....

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley."

(Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth....)



8 Comments
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jun 15 2007
    I'm pointing my fan your way. Feel it yet?

    It is warm here, but not THAT warm. It will come, I'm told.

    I can wait. This is nice.
    Hugs! (or maybe it's too hot to hug.)
    :o)
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jun 15 2007
    We're headed for a dreadful hot spell. Not that it hasn't been hot enough in the low 90's *sigh*. We usually don't get this hot until late July and I'm finding it discouraging at best. My tomatoe plants seem to have produced all of 8 blooms between them though I keep watering like a mad woman.......Let's not discuss the cucumbers, shall we????
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Jun 16 2007
    Well good news is it not to be so hot for next week .
    Sometimes it helps if you can place sun netting to keep the burning sun off plants in bloom.. It has worked for me for the screen shade saved my . They just seem to handle the heat but not both.
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Jun 16 2007
    You poor thing; I'm hot just thinking about 102.

    I'm with Dustbunny.... rig up some shade if you can. At least then your poor plants won't be as stressed from the sun beating on them. It should help retain moisture too.
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Jun 16 2007
    Are your 'maters in the ground or in containers? If they're in containers, could you move them to a shady area during the worst heat of the day? Or rig something to set out to shade them during that time? Maybe something like this:

    http://www.elitedeals.com/kica16trsuns.html

    Alli
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Jun 16 2007
    Oh dear, the summer heat! And I'm here rugged up in uggies, poncho and sipping a hot coffee. ;-)
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 17 2007
    Today was much nicer, thankyouverymuch!!

    I think Ma Nature is getting *very* vengeful for the way we two-legged critters have treated her world. But I plead Not Guilty!!

    Maybe your plants can recover with the cooler temps predicted for the next several days.

    Shalom

    Oh, and how is the new resident coming along?
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 17 2007
    Did I say 'bleh' yet? 102°. BLEH!