Our first freeze of the year arrived last night, one night earlier than predicted by the weather guys but still anticipated well enough in advance that we harvested some good stuff from the garden before they got zapped. This included a couple dozen Jamaican Hot Chocolate habanero peppers, most showing plenty of green instead of [...]
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Now is the summer of our discontent supplanted by an honest Fall, complete with fog and mist and even genuine rain, enough to soak our grounds and command the grasses to grow once more. (Not enough, though, to fill empty Texas reservoirs, many of which are below 40% capacity in evidence the dreaded drought continues [...]
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The weather has cooled here somewhat, beginning Oct. 1, not enough to call it fall yet, more like Summer Jr., with highs still reaching close to 90. However, the evenings have been pleasant enough that the hibiscus have begun blooming again, and I’ve finally started the fall garden. In a usual semi-South Texas year, you [...]
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These plants not only survived the continuing and worst drought in Texas history (as far as we know, which isn’t very far) – they thrived. They’ll all do better with a little rain, but as this year’s unintended experiment showed, they do pretty well without much. The white job at top left is one of [...]
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We enjoyed about a 10-day respite from 100+ degree heat here, and at night it was great, dropping from about 90 to the low 60s. The bad part is that the cooler air also was incredibly dry, and sucked away what little moisture our soil had managed to retain. Suddenly everything became browner and drier, [...]
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I believe the temperature has been over 100 in the shade here, usually for several hours at a time, every day since August began, and for at least two or three days in July before that. It reached 106 in the shade for an extended period last week, according to my garage thermometer, and 104 [...]
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This year more than ever, the first week of July means an end to most of the summer garden. It’s topped 100 out in the sun almost every day for the past two weeks, and while a few of the tomato plants still are partially green and growing, they can’t produce fruit and are being [...]
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