Two Feet in the Dirt

We were expecting to be inundated with rain today from Tropical Storm “Fred”, but instead barely saw a drop and had an incredibly humid, sunny day instead. There’s a reason people used to talk about the weather all the time. Back when so many people were farmers or grew food for themselves, weather was all controlling. We plan our work week entirely upon the weather. Yesterday, we worked like crazy and put in an incredibly long day to try to get what we needed done before the heavy rain. I also always try to plan any planting to fall just before with rainy days so that the new seeds and...

It looks like scorching temperatures are in store for us this week. With highs at the end of the week topping out near 100 degrees, it will be the hottest weather we’ve seen this summer. This is definitely a challenge as we are at the height of our fall transplanting and it’s a tough choice to decide whether it’s better to hold off on planting seedlings to spare them the heat or risk the heat in order to get them out of the seedling trays that they are beginning to outgrow. Besides just the heat, we’re also struggling with extremely low rainfall. Until a series of thunderstorms yesterday, we hadn’t...