Don Sanborn's Blog: It is Hot, Hot, Hot

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

It is Hot, Hot, Hot

It is Hot, Hot, Hot

Heat Advisory issued June 06 at 3:11AM EDT until June 07 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Gray/Portland

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 97 expected.
* WHERE...Eastern Hillsborough and Interior Rockingham Counties.
* WHEN...From 11 AM this morning to 8 PM EDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses to occur.

Yikes...

It was supposed to be the St Matt's yard sale, could'a swore it was supposed to be the St. Matt's Yard sale extravaganza. It wasn't, it was the Goffstown Congregational church Yard sale, no matter just a smaller sale. I bought a Fan for the office.

It was also the New Boston town-wide Yard Sale. A yearly event when it's not a Covid nightmare, we were the only folks I saw wearing masks.Not a lot of good stuff, I don't need furniture or kids clothes, saw some great Canoes, $50, $80, and $120. All good deals, I just don't need one. I bought a Rapala lure for a dollar, new in box Rapala, that was about it.

We got back to the house at 11:30am it was 91 degrees already from Yard Sailing on Saturday, boys and I commenced with putting in the irrigation drip hoses in the squash bed and tomato beds. Rose kept us from destroying everything we touched... We're trying Red plastic mulch for the Tomato plants this year, it's supposed to increase yields. James and Jason put in the cages, and metal posts to further support the tomato cages against the winds we seem to get most years that blow down all our tomatoes. We redid the irrigation a couple of times, it takes patience to get it right (especially in 91 degree heat), it needs to be setup so that we're not swamping the seeded beds in one area while another area dries out completely.

Let the planting begin, Rose did an amazing job making up all of the raised beds, these beds are wide enough we can plant a lot, but not so wide that you can't reach in them for picking, the stakes are there to keep hoses off the beds as we drag them to different parts of the garden.

Jason (L.) and James (R.) were such a big help getting the drip irrigation hoses in, and helped with planting the Tomato beds, red plastic'd area, caged, staked, and planted. The squash bed on the right is our new expansion squash bed with drip irrigation. The garden was expanded a good 6'+ width this year to accommodate the squash that overtook the garden last year.

When we were done with the garden we assembled Roses new DR-Trimmer

She tried it out, seemed to work good, just different than our old one.

Today Sunday 94 degrees, it's carrots today at 8AM in the morning before the scorching begins.

We're getting some stuff together for Jarrod, a tractor, and A/C we're not using, and his pole saw we borrowed.

Rose was out in the garden early this morning, with only 1 cup of coffee in her, off she went, planting carrots and Marigolds and...

The grass was still too wet to mow at 9:30am Sunday, I'll have to wait a bit for it to dry out. Stuff is growing way to fast in this heat. Ended up mowing after 5pm, only took a couple hours to finish up.

The Plum tree we got from Dad is covered in tiny plums. If this drought doesn't progress to far we may get some this year. All of the plums will drop off before they mature if the tree gets stressed by the drought.

Dad's crazy Plum tree

Off to the Home Depot to pick up some Circuit Breakers, appears I had one give up the magic smoke... We were probably overloading it... and it was probably pretty old.

Roses flowers, Zinnias and a wildflower mix planted from seed have sprouted in a couple of the beds.

Our bedding plants, Kales, Leeks, maybe beans, I cut up the potato seed so we can put those in this week, they're drying in the kitchen.