Hot Days
July has been one hot month with hardly any rain. Thankfully as I write this, we’ve gotten a few days of normal temperatures and some rain. The picture above was taken at 6:21am, the coolest part of the day. The last big harvest of hardy annuals at the end of June: snapdragons, statice and mountain mint. The start of warm annuals pictured above, all heat lovers! The flowers have been holding up with drip irrigation and sprinklers to cool them off during the 100 degree days. Thankfully I have two industrial refrigerators to hold them at a cool 40 degrees. My last big seeding is in mid July for late summer/ early fall flowers. It’s not too late to sow seeds, most take about 75-90 days to bloom. I plan is to have flowers till frost. Fresh cut flowers need a bit of care to make them last longer. Here…
