Hot Days at Sweetgrass

Coming off our week of near-constant rain, we've had a week of constant sun and humidity. It's consistently run 80 degrees with 75+ percent humidity. The tomatoes are loving it, but I'm not. I won't complain though, I can work through it. It's mom that seems to have trouble with it, but she's always run a little hot anyway. I re- discovered the four pepper plants that I bought a few weeks ago. I had completely forgotten their poor existence. I watered the droopy things today and I hope they'll make a turnaround soon. They've even got little peppers a-growing.

I also finished weeding and mulching my strawberry patch. I've picked off all but one runner because I couldn't bring myself to, it's growing so strongly. I did separate one mini plant from its runner and planted it. I couldn't find straw in the hardware/feed stores, how weird is that? So I raked up the dried grass from the last lawn mowing and used that. It'll break down faster than straw, but it will work for now. I also scraped up a bunch of the dry grass for the compost to help dry it out.


Plenty of peas are ready for picking! I have to leave some on to mature so I'll have them for next year, but it's so hard to do. Fresh peas taste so good! No wonder I've never liked frozen peas. Blech! I know to stake them better next year. I'm picking up lots of plant to get a few pods underneath.


The yellow squash are loving this weather. A day or two after this photo and there are already two or three squash a inch or so long.


Here's a photo showing the two squash plants. One gets about an hour of more direct sun than the other, and you can see how it feels about that.


The front one is so not happy. Hopefully as the bushes (next to the squash on the right, not in the picture) grow, they'll provide more filtered light and the squash will be happier in successive years.

That's what's been going on 'round these parts. I have some more fun things coming up (something like five posts in the Drafts folder), so check in soon!