Welp, there goes the veggie garden. Again.

[Cassia]

Hailstorm just shredded peppers, tomatoes, okra, pumpkins, southern peas, greens and herbs. Garden was just bouncing back from hard freezes. Oh well. I am a seed collector so no big deal. But my boat's canvas top looks like it was machine-gunned.

Before the freeze the garden was great:

[aitm]

I planted a bit later this year so most seeded plants are still sprouting, corn is about 3-4” high green beans doing well. Carrots are coming in but they are slow growers. Got some red taters doing well, store bought peppers look real good. Peas are just sprouting. Cherry tomatoes looking good.

[Pappy]

It was 75 yesterday. Big thunderstorms last night. It snowed this morning.



25 tonight.

[Cassia]

That's a wild temperature swing. The planet is growing angry with us. It's gonna end up just like just like Mars by the time we get there.

[drunkenshoe]

We are having an unusually cool year. I'm curious how the summer will follow. The idea of a cooler summer than usual sounds soo much cooler? eehh

Cassia, your tomatoes' colours look esp. amazing to me.

I had an intraocular lense operation 2 weeks ago and now I'm a cyboooorg! they've removed my natural lenses and put in a pair of human made multifocal lenses. I see better than I did with glasses, but then I had extreme far-sighteedness and also near and astigmat. And my degree was still going up! Now it won't ever and I won't have a cataract op later in life either. It's just two weeks but colours got better. Esp. blue and green. It's weird because I never thought I would live without glasses. I still keep looking for my glasses to get up from the bed, try to adjust the air...etc. Lol Science is amazing

[Cassia]

We are having an unusually cool year. I'm curious how the summer will follow. The idea of a cooler summer than usual sounds soo much cooler? eehh

Cassia, your tomatoes' colours look esp. amazing to me.

I had an intraocular lense operation 2 weeks ago and now I'm a cyboooorg! they've removed my natural lenses and put in a pair of human made multifocal lenses. I see better than I did with glasses, but then I had extreme far-sighteedness and also near and astigmat. And my degree was still going up! Now it won't ever and I won't have a cataract op later in life either. It's just two weeks but colours got better. Esp. blue and green. It's weird because I never thought I would live without glasses. I still keep looking for my glasses to get up from the bed, try to adjust the air...etc. Lol Science is amazing

Yey, that is AMAZING Shoe! I had the lasik as soon as it was available and yes, it was so great to not need thick glasses or contacts.

[drunkenshoe]

Oh, you were lucky Cassia. All the other kind of surgeries wouldn't work for me. Maybe because of that I didn't expect any other option would have a good end. It's pretty astonishing.

[Cassia]

It's funny what happens when you plant crops that evolved for your climate. I planted some Taiwan Yard Long beans. We cannot eat them fast enough.


My Georgia Orange Bulldog pumpkins are taking off. Developed by university scientists to grow Jack-o-Lantern type pumpkins in the South. Something that was nearly impossible. We are limited to the small Seminole type pumpkins that can take the heat and humidity.

This is what they look like. Pretty excited, but 100 days is a long time for things to "go south".

[Cassia]

My mostly unattended garden plods along in our tropical summer.
I have to move fast when harvesting to outrun the skeeters (that stick me right through my shirt),
so, I'll sometimes miss things that end up compost.