The poor, hot summer garden.

We are just coming off of a week or two of 100+ degree days. It is freaking brutal out there.

My pepper plants look so bad, I pulled two of them. But this one has a wee little baby bell!

The okra has been the winner this year by FAR. It's so hot now, that production has slowed down considerably.

Pathetic peppers.

One cucumber trying to make it on a dying plant.

Yuck.

Forest of okra.

Dying zucchini, which is now dead.

One hubbard squash plant died overnight. the other is trying- even has some buds on it! But I have a bad feeling about it.

Something chewed straight through my only malabar spinach plant. It was a sturdy, strong, healthy plant about foot and a half high, and something just sheared straight though the stem and left it. :(

My lavender died. 

But my chard is much happier! I finally managed to find a place where it gets bright light but zero indirect sun, and is close to my door so I remember to water it. It still droops a bit in the heat, but it green, and putting out new growth. Yay! I really thought I would lose it.

It's beginning to look like fall?

No. No, it is not beginning to look like fall. It was 105 here yesterday. :/  However, it IS time to start some seeds, to be transplanted outside in hopefully a month or so!

This first round has some broccoli, brussel sprouts, two types of kale, kohlrabi, two types of lettuce and frisee. More to come, as I am hoping to time-stagger some plants. The rest of the seeds that I have will be started outside, I think. My set up above is pretty ghetto, using whatever I could scrounge up around the house, since I am super poor. I hope it works!

Patience, patience, patience.