5 Acres & A Dream: Garden Notes: July 2023

• vary of nighttime lows: 63 to 73°F (17 to 23°C)
• vary of daytime highs: 80 to 93°F (26 to 34°C)

• Firstly, I will make be aware of my Thermometer Discrepancies put up plus feedback. I am nonetheless mulling over precisely what knowledge is helpful to me in our lives right here: rainfall absolutely, temperature logical, with humidity and warmth index a big issue which solely appears essential on the day. I am jotting the warmth index down on my calendar, however I am undecided what else to do with it but.
• The highs have been on the low aspect of regular for July, nevertheless it’s been humid, which implies we’re simply as scorching and sticky as after they’re on the excessive aspect of regular!
• The lows are uncommon. Usually, this time of 12 months our lows our within the mid-70s (   ), so we’re cooling off at night time extra that common. That is welcome! It helps cool the home off. We’ve not had to make use of our Arc-Chill cooling blanket but, and I typically placed on a flannel shirt once I head out for early morning chores. 
• Rain forecast is all the time for “scattered thunderstorms” or “remoted showers,” which implies generally we get it, generally of us down the street get it. (Which may be irritating for a gardener.) I feel the frequent cloudy days are what’s helped maintain our daytime highs decrease than common.

• Solely mornings are cool sufficient to be within the backyard, however our humidity is within the mid-90s%, which implies every part is drenched with dew. I’ve to get every part accomplished by 9 or 9:30, when the solar hits the backyard. It is simply too scorching after that.
• Afternoons are for canning or different actions.
• Morning backyard work contains selecting, mattress prep (just like the potato beds, that are all accomplished for the summer season), some weeding, and I nonetheless have a number of locations to mulch.
• This time of 12 months, the backyard is on the wild aspect.

Imagine it or not, every part right here is stuff I would like: summer season veggies, volunteers, forage greens, and funky climate crops going to seed, which I will accumulate later.

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Remaining harvest weight  of potatoes was near 80 kilos. We have had plenty of discouraging years with them, however this 12 months they did nicely. I feel the distinction was getting ready the mattress with compost, bone meal, and azomite minerals. Final 12 months I reviewed a e book by Lynn Gillespie, High Performance Gardening. It is primarily a starting gardener’s e book, however I gleaned a nugget of gold in her dialogue of soil minerals. I did a little analysis and found that I already had a great resolution within the barn, Azomite. It is powdered natural hint minerals, and I began mixing small quantities with my compost. I feel that is what made the distinction!