Well things have cooled down a little, only 95. We had 2 solid weeks of 100+ weather, and the garden took a hit. It's always hard this time of the year, I really have to decide what will live and what will get crispy. Ever year I plant more and more drought tolerant plants and heat lovers. The tomaotes, peppers, squash, all love this heat, the cucs, corn, strawberries and herbs have a hard time. Still getting tomatoes off at least 8 of the plants, and peppers from 5 of the plants. However, we did have a few surprises, potatoes being the big one!! Can't believe they made it, I thought for sure they were goners. TPW made some pretty tasty potato salad, I have been able to dig up about 20 per week. The fig tree is in full effect, trying to beat the birds is hard, but I have managed to stay one step ahead of them.
Random squash that grew out of the compost that was spread around in the spring. 
And to think, I thought that we would lose this Lisbon Lemon tree. When we first moved in it looked like it was going to fall over at any moment. With a little pruning and some food this tree is kicking out large lemons ALL the time!! TPW made us lemonade all last week.
Don't you just love lemon trees? We have a dwarf Meyer lemon tree and it produces lemons all the time too. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWe cooled down, then over 100 a few days, then some rain and cooler temps again. My melons have split ;=( Lovely that you got potatoes; I'm not sure I'll get any late ones, have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteYour harvest looks great! As always I'm jealous of your citrus. We have been stuck at 95 degrees for over 6 weeks now. We were talking about it today and we think the last time we saw a day in the 80's was way back in early June!
ReplyDeleteLove your lemons and look like you got Acorn Squash - very tasty roasted or in soup.
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