Looks like the heat is getting the lettuce and a few other greens. Temp here are already hitting the mid-eighties and then the next morning in the forties, up and down, depending upon which way the wind is blowing.
The carrots have been doing well, picking a bunch each day. I'm thinking of pickling some of them as we both like pickled carrots. Tomato and pepper plants are in the ground, pear tree is blooming but I'm worried about the fig tree, a few limbs froze off in January and they set figs rather early and then they fell off. I fertilized the fruit trees this year as the ag agent said it was time. Just little batches of 8-8-8 and
13-13-13. Now I need to get out the fertilizer hand spreader and do the lawn with a light fertilizer and the other stuff that goes well.
Lovely wife catches up to me on years old next month but we're not worried. She's healthy as a horse and often eats like one, I've cut back on meat and tater's and am trying to more vegetables and salads. Dropped about five lbs so far but have at least 20 more to go if not more. Have been told I have some pretty bad arthritis by the doctors but not a lot can be done about it. My next step is to look up some remedies that don't have drugs in them, have enough scripts for heavy drugs anyway, diabetes, heart problems, you name. Wife now does the mowing and the digging, I sit on my tractor seat crawler and plant stuff until my back gets stiff and then go set in the shade with iced tea.
All the kids, grands, and great grands are doing fine, eldest great granddaughter is now dating, will soon be 17 and I worry about her even if her boyfriend is a really nice guy her age.
George