So hard
not to get discouraged. I see all the pretty pics of other people’s beautiful gardens with all they produce, then look out the window. Dry, brown, dead vegetation, tons of bugs, and no produce. Sigh…
Thank goodness for those pics, though, and for garden magazines. They help motivate when thinking about planting seeds and nurturing the babies seems like an exercise in futility. Sooner or later (most likely MUCH later), it will stop being well over 100 degrees every d&*m day, and we will get some rain. Then when other people are shoveling snow, I’ll be picking tomatoes and eating garden suppers.
Gardeners have to be either eternal optimists or masochists. Haven’t decided which yet.
I’m so sorry…..Some of my veggies shutdown during the peak of summer, but thankfully have started producing again. Maybe you can install something to shade the plants when needed?
Experienced TX gardeners tell you to just give up on July and August; basically pull your plants and start thinking September. I started too late, and it’s been an extraordinarily hot and dry summer. The wind keeps blowing, and the sun keeps shining, and the plants keep dying. I do have replacements started, so we’ll see what happens. I do get discouraged, but it won’t be this hot all the time…I hope! It’ll get better.
Thanks for the sympathy, though, appreciate it!
It would get discouraging. We’ve had a real hot summer, and things tend to wilt down during the day, but at least they don’t shrivel up and die. You watch though, you’ll be producing like mad when most of the rest of us are just dreaming about next year.
That’s what keeps me going, thinking about the fall garden. If I went by how it looks now, I’d pack it in and forget about it! Like I said, either eternal optimist or masochist! LOL.
Your garden may be suffering in the summer heat but come February you’ll be way ahead of us!
LOL! So I keep telling myself!