It has been terrible out here. Soggy and only like 6 days above 70 so far this year. Lows still drop below 50 weekly, my cukes and zukes have died 3 times. Slugs are eating everything even with 10 traps and natural slug bait. Flowers all killed off by a late frost for almost 48 hours. I hope the bulbs survived and come back next year. It has been so bad I have resorted to trying to raise tree frogs and making a nice little terrarium. I know most of the USA is in a heat wave but we could use just a little more heat and sun up here. Hope all my neighbors abroad have had a better growing season and hope someone in the states has had a much better one than mine. So of to indoor plants I go 8-8-8-8-8-8-8 Hopscotch was so much fun when I could bend down on one foot and not fall down.
WOW! how bizarre. we are so hot and dry it is incredibly unusual. In the 90's every day and no rain here for the last 6 weeks to speak of. All around was was severe weather this past week (like Friday Eve.) and we had a few raindrops. I water daily all that I can. Good thing God has blessed us with an excellent well. We use oodles of water daily. Hope it warms up for you and cools down and rains for us.
We've broken several records here for high temps that were set in 1952. That must have been a bad year too. I was alive then but didn't pay much attention to the weather.
Extreme weather.I hope it doesn't get so extreme that growing crops will be impossible. It had been predicted that we will see more violent storms & droughts & deluges.Certainly is coming true.I'm not speaking of a biblical prediction. sewNsow
broke several records here too, record low high temp and record low low temps. So far no crops have been doing much of anything. Anything that does get a little start with a day or 2 of sun stops and gets eaten or dies. Tomatoes are just now getting over a foot tall and no blooms after 6-8 weeks planted. But nothing severe yet this year, I will take cool and soggy or high winds and tornadoes.
Yesterday the weatherman on German tv (I live close to the German border) called the summer a "rollercoaster-summer", which just about sums it all up. Many cool, dreary, wet & windy days followed by a few days warming up to very hot, after which thunderstorms complete the circle. At least I can count myself lucky that things aren't as extreme as over there in the U.S.
