Heat Wave

These 90 degree temperatures are making gardening a little more difficult. Jeff has waited until sunset the last 4 days (only 2 of them were 90 degrees days) before watering the garden and then he'd really soak each section until puddles formed between the plants before moving on down the row. By the time he had finished half of a 40' row the beginning was puddle free! We really need an entire night 10pm-8am of gentle soaking rain to get things growing. Another strange occurrence...Jeff had started purple peppers from seeds and transplanted some into the ground in the 'square foot' section and some into the raised accent boxes. The ones in the ground have barely doubled in size but the ones in the boxes are have started to flower! The only difference we can tell is the amount of augmentation to the soil that Jeff has done. The boxes are filled with a mixture of top soil-peat moss-manure-vermiculite and while the garden rows do not have that combo worked in they have had compost added. Jeff repeated and changed the 'square foot' sections down the rows trying to avoid large areas of 1 variety so those purple peppers are planted all over the garden...and they are growing at different rates, too. We were talking last night and pretty much decided that in the fall and spring he was going have to work in some manure or something into the garden rows.

We went to visit the dog at the Humane Society Tuesday after work and took her for another walk. She seemed to recognize us..really recognized Jeff-what's this with my dogs and him? We got 'approval to adopt' and today I have to stop and get her dog license. We're hoping to take her home tomorrow after work. Jeff put up a pulley line for her...from the house side of the deck to a tree in the woods but with a stop just short of the tree line. She'll have about a 40x20 ft area...plus the deck. I decided to put a chair and table out there again and I'll have breakfast with Fanny on the deck. Mom chose 'Fanny' as the name. It suits her better than Alana.