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On 8/2/2024 at 5:42 PM, HanShotFirst said:

Is it winter yet?!?  I’m so over these excessive heat warnings we keep having.  I’m old and fat and can’t take the heat anymore. 🤪

Right there with ya..was sick with the heat for 3 days visiting my daughter in Georgia at the end of Jul...told her no more mom visits in summer ...any other time Oct-April  is ok...she laughed but knew I was serious...their heat and humidity is nuts.

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6 hours ago, bossy1 said:

Right there with ya..was sick with the heat for 3 days visiting my daughter in Georgia at the end of Jul...told her no more mom visits in summer ...any other time Oct-April  is ok...she laughed but knew I was serious...their heat and humidity is nuts.

 

Try the Gulf Coast of Alabama ... everyday brings a "Heat Advisory" with 98 degrees+ and feel like temps up to 120 degrees plus humidity up to 98%... Air conditioners can't handle it and we are miserable! Looking to move - now that hubby is retired - can't handle this anymore! 😞

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Pictorial update of my two raised beds at Marymoor Community Garden in Redmond, WA. Zone 9a, up from 8b last year. I’m basically treating it as a mixture of both zones.
 

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South side of the arching trellis:
Purple collard trees
Various tomatoes I got for free from one of my gardening Facebook groups 
Asparagus crown from a deserted plot at the gardens 
Various herbs and field greens
Sweet corn I sowed from seed last month, so it has a ways to go
Underneath cardboard towards the front carrot seeds I sowed yesterday
 
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North side of the arching trellis:
Various tomatoes 
Various herbs and field greens
Another asparagus crown from a deserted plot at the gardens
Sweet corn I sowed from seed last month, so it also has a ways to go
Under the cardboard towards the front of the bed are parsnip seeds I sowed yesterday
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On 8/5/2024 at 1:52 PM, ilikefree said:

What happened to summer, July in particular?! It seems as though it just started and poof, it's gone!

These are my thoughts! Back to school next week makes me think of the saying “The days are long and the years are short.”.  
 

 

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Happy August! We took our oldest back to Temple last Thursday (he is an RA, so he needs to be on campus before students), for his junior year. My most recent high school grad is taking a gap year while he tries again to get into a watchmaking school, which is extremely competitive. He will apply to a program in Seattle again this fall. And my daughter, the luger, just got back from her last summer training camp last week. She had two great camps, and this upcom8ng season, she will be sliding in both singles and doubles. 😳 This month's pics are flat ice training, practicing their paddling, with her coach (and former Olympian), photobombing to let me know that Kendall and her doubles partner are doing well for just starting out, and Kendall taking 2nd place in a starts race against her fellow Candidate team level teammates, as well as the next level team (Jr. National Team), of athletes aged 17 and up (Kendall just turned 15 in June).

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Checking in for August. The year is flying by! Had awfully hot weather this summer (more than the usual hot muggy Maryland summer) but the last few days have been delightful! (We call it Maine summer😀)

i am just so happy my going back to school days are past.

Keep cool , keep well.

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I should probably post this in the Discuss GottaDeal section, but I want to thank Brad for fixing whatever was causing the Black Friday archives to occasionally show a new post notification when there wasn’t one.. The only way I knew to have the new notification disappear was to go into the forum, open the year listed, and mark as read. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened in a while.

 

Thank you, Brad!

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Summer here in the Pacific Northwet had a few summer days, but it’s been very fall like later into the summer and earlier into the end of summer. My raised beds are doing well, but none of my tomatoes (I have nine plants between my two beds) have ripened yet.

 

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Both beds with the trellis in between. I’m experimenting with sweet corn for the first time along with tomatoes, herbs, and some greens.

 

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The bed on the north side of the trellis.

 

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And the one on the south side.

 

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This is my first year growing Mortgage Lifter, along with the San Marzano-style Romas I save seed from last year and several varieties of cherry tomatoes. All are coming along nicely, they just haven’t ripened yet.

 

Waiting is…

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I hope everyone is staying cool and doing well. Gator Pam, my daughter and soon-to-be son-in-law would love your garden! My daughter bought me Lego flowers because I have a tendency to kill plants. So far, so good! 🤣 

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🎉 First of the season! 🎉
 
Last night our temperatures fell into the mid-40s. I was so concerned of catastrophe as I headed to the garden. But, I was greeted by a couple of nice surprises today.
 
I was certain at least one variety of the several different cherry tomatoes I’m growing would ripen first, especially since one had a cluster slowly ripening over the past week. But, no. Mortgage Lifter for the win!
 
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I’m quite happy with a tomato weighing just over a pound to start!
 
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My corn then had a surprise for me by having some silks starting to peek out. Now I need to figure out when to start hand pollinating.
 
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The proud gardener.
 
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