It surely doesn’t feel like Fall around here. How about at your house? Don’t say yes or I may move in with you! Accuweather gives me hope! We have about a week of temps in the upper 90’s and then about a week of temps in the 100+ range and by August 22, it looks like our temps will begin falling to more tolerable summer levels, hovering around the mid-90’s. It’s amazing how different the temps feel when it goes from the mid-90’s to the 105º range.
Garden
I had been holding out hope that we would get some rain and my squash would spring back to life. It wasn’t dead but it wasn’t producing but without rain, it was looking like it was down for the count so Vince pulled it all out this weekend.
Garden
Then he tilled it all up. Towards the end of August, I’ll plant lettuce, beets, brussels sprouts, carrots and cauliflower in there.
You can see the sprinklers going in the background. The ground here is so hard that we have to wet it down before he can till it up.
Garden
All that grassy area is part of the newly expanded garden and needs to be tilled up several times to hopefully convince the weeds they are no longer welcome there.
Garden
This is an area that has never been tilled before and there were a few pretty big rocks in there so he switched back to the old tiller. My job today was supposed to be picking up rocks out of that area. I actually didn’t find very many . . I think Vince picked them up as he was tilling.
We are so lucky to have such good garden soil here. Most of this area is terribly rocky and horrible soil. We didn’t even have a good garden spot on our list when we were looking . . yes, we are so lucky!
Currently, we still have quite a few tomatoes, peppers, onions, okra, asparagus and soon we’ll begin digging sweet potatoes. A friend had sent me cucumber seeds that he assured me would grow . . I have terrible luck with cucumbers, so I hope to have a late cucumber crop. I’m ready for cooler weather and I’m ready for some different plants in the garden.
Kaelyn says
It has been Fall all summer around here. Colder than normal with chronic rain. Weather man just said it isn’t going to get any better for the rest of the “summer” and that we can also look forward to another bitterly cold winter. I’ll trade you!
JudyL says
Nope, don’t want to trade. Our dislike of cold winters are why we live in Texas.
Rebecca in SoCal says
Nope, no fall here! I think a storm is gracing us with slightly higher temperatures and some humidity. Next week looks like back to the low 80s 😀 and then another sudden upturn the following week.
We (San Diego County) are as likely to get hot weather in September as August. We’re always behind the curve on seasons.
Mary Jo says
We are having an unseasonably cool and wet August so far. Today it is about 75 degrees and has rained most of the weekend and all morning. But they are predicting mid 90’s again next week. One thing about North Carolina is that if you don’t like the weather today, just hang around, tomorrow will be different!
We really do have pretty good weather. A few months of humid, hot weather, a nice fall, a few months of cold (20’s and 30’s) with maybe a small amount of snowfall and usually a pleasant spring. I love that we have 4 seasons!
You are welcome to come and stay with me until the Texas weather improves!
Katie Z says
No fall here either! I’m in endless canning mode, and will be for a few more weeks at least. I’m not sure much fall gardening is happening here, but that’s okay. I’m surely tired, and I think I make get most of our fruit put up for the winter.
Gardenpat says
Here in central Ohio, it has been a cooler than normal summer so it’s taken longer for our tomatoes to ripen! On a positive note, my broccoli just keeps producing- I just picked 5-1/2 lbs of beautiful heads today before our rain came down again! Good year for rain (without flooding) too!! Very blessed for the weather we’ve had this season, but we know winter will certainly come so we’re trying to fill our pantries.
I also want to get our cold frames built this year and ready to go!
Carolyn says
Dang Wish I had planted Broccoli! Tomatoes are not ripening in SW Ohio either. and the ones that are, haver tough skins. Too tough to eat. My potatoes have continued to grow they are chest high in places. And they keep on blooming! I wonder if I will get any potatoes this yr.
CookieE says
I can’t remember ever having such low temps in August. We’re expecting rain and a cold front tonight which they said will give us temps that feel like late fall for the rest of the week. Been very busy canning and dehydrating and freezing.
Judy, I loved your idea about dehydrating kale. That’s next on the schedule for tomorrow. I’m also going to dehydrate some chard along with it. I also made the tomato powder tonight.
Vickie VanDyken says
oh my ..you are all so busy!! I am proud of you all 🙂 Here in NW WA it is the hottest day of summer so far…that would be the low 90’s !!!! It’s a killer… I know some of the rest of the country laughs at our weather…My most loved cousin is coming to visit from So Cal I crack up when she talks to friends back home in Perris, CA saying “I’m having winter again!” LOL Well I have been on the computer all day. We are getting (finally) our house re-fi’d. Our interest rate has been 7.25% a killer!! Now we are getting 4.875% not as low as some but better than 7, for sure!!! Happy dance!!! I have all the paperwork received and re sent with sigs and all the other docs they wanted. So I guess I have had a good day 🙂 I really want to do the garden thing next year…..Oh and I won a ribbon at the fair!! Not sure what yet. My girlfriend helped hang the quilts and congratulated me….so that is all I know til I go..or someone else tells me!!
Judy you keep me motivated …THANKS !!!!
pdudgeon says
yep, thinking Fall and snuggling under quilts while listening to the rain outside. I’ve had enough heat.
patty says
Here in NE Ohio the weather has been all over the map – hot, cold, humid, sunny, and rainy. Just give it 15 minutes and the weather will change! I can tell by the light that fall is coming way to quick for me. The shadows have changed too. I don’t have a garden because all of it would be eaten by the animals including the deer that overnight in by backyard.
Doreen says
Last Spring it was forecast for a cooler than average summer. We all laughed. They were right. This morning (as has been the recent mornings) it’s 57F…racing(!) toward 78F. Our gardens are not doing well. The cool days/nights with so very little rain seems to be stunting all growth. At least the A/C has gotten a break!
Sherrill says
Well, while I love the fall, I HATE the winter!! Hate the cold and everything that goes with it..coats, gloves, unable to get warm. YUCK! So truthfully I’d rather the summer stuck around for a while longer!! Not fond of the grueling heat but way better than freezing!! LOL
Helen Koenig1 says
Definitely racing towards fall here in MA. The cooler weather has kept my tomatoes from doing their thing at anything other than a barely crawl! It feels like it is in the 60’s but is probably up to 70. And it’s felt like this most of the summer with only a handful of days where it really felt hot! Definitely a wierd summer here! A bit scary too – especially when I start wondering just how cold winter is going to be!
At any rate, the a/c, although installed in my window, hasn’t had to be turned on all summer! Fans have though, but mostly to get the air moving. Just wish my garden was growing better!