Rainfall
- 1st: 0.26"
- 9th: 0.91"
- 10th: 0.74"
- 11th: 0.07"
- 12th: 0.7"
- 15th: 0.14"
- 20th: 0.14"
- 28th: 0.17"
- 29th: 1.24
- Total so far: 4.37 inches
Temperature
- range of nighttime lows: 67 to 74°F (19.4 to 23.3°C)
- range of daytime highs: 85 to 95°F (29.4 to 35°C)
Garden Notes
- Schedule:
- mornings picking
- afternoons processing
- The garden is pretty much in survival mode because it's so hot and dry. We had a break from these kinds of temps over the past couple of years, but this summer is another hot one. It's making me rethink something I wrote about years ago, that I need to plan my garden more around spring and early summer, and fall and winter.
Harvested
- slicing tomatoes
- cherry tomatoes
- cucumbers
- blueberries
- mulberries
- beets
- Swiss chard
- lambs quarter
- kale
- buckwheat
- oregano
- rosemary
- thyme
- sage
- okra
- potatoes
- bell peppers
- pears
- asparagus
Preserved
- blueberries, frozen
- blueberry jam, canned (from the last of last year's frozen blueberries)
- mulberries, frozen
- wheat berries, frozen
- greens (lambs quarter, kale, & Swiss chard), canned
- pizza sauce, canned
- mulberry/fig jam, canned (figs from our neighbor)
- pear vinegar
Photos
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| Both slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are doing well with regular watering |
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| Field corn |
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| Blueberries ready to go into the freezer |
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| More blueberry pie! |
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| Okra. In the lower right corner are echinicea, yarrow, and oregano. |
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| Oven roasted okra and new potatoes. I didn't plant a potato crop, I
just planted sprouted pantry potatoes. We got enough for a couple of meals. |
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| Honeybee on buckwheat flowers. Buckwheat is very attractive to pollinators. |
I hope everyone is having a more comfortable summer than we are! I hope ya'll are getting enough rain!
Garden Notes: July 2025 © July 2025
10 comments:
So much bounty! You are still getting rain, which we desperately need. I don’t think it has rained here in the Piedmont for almost a month, and even the drought tolerant perennials are showing it. Hoping that will change this weekend.
That pie looks delicious!
Enjoy the abundance!
Your tomatoes are way ahead of ours. We have only harvested a handful of cherry size tomatoes. Your harvest is a long longer than ours too. Wow! I have purchased 10# of blueberries, and froze them, but our harvest is very late this year.
Daisy, when it's this hot, dry conditions seem to take their toll more easily, don't they? Glad you're getting rain! It's in our forecast for today too.
Kristina, as I recall, you had an unusually chilly spring, didn't you? That puts things behind.
Blueberry harvest will be over soon, and I only have a couple of viable cucumber plants now, although it's too hot for cucumbers. I'm hoping they'll resume when the weather gets cooler, if I can keep them alive that long! We'll get cherry tomatoes until the frost kills them.
I probably have 4 inches of rain in my rain gauge just from the storm last night and I've probably dumped at least 10 inches of rain prior to that this month. It hasn't been muddy or overwhelming here but it has been a pleasant change since July is normally a very dry month for us. Our garden is going gangbusters on us. I can hardly keep up with it. When it stops raining today, I have to go pick the rest of the sweet corn and process it and probably pick another bucket full of tomatoes to clean and stick in the freezer for later on. Oh, and pick a mess of okra too. Yesterday I harvested the remainder of our potatoes and onions. I planted two pounds of see potatoes and minus what we have eaten for the last couple months as "new" potatoes, I probably ended up with 50 pounds. Onions didn't do nearly as good, I guess they don't like the moisture as much. But I still have more than we'll probably get through before they start going bad so I can't complain.
Wow, Ed, that's a great garden report! Abundance is always a joy. I hope you are officially out of your drought cycle. You had too many dry summers for too many years.
Nice that you can harvest some goodies and the new kid is beautiful! It been very hot here, topping out at 100° a couple days and many 97's. but I just added up the rain and it's at 18" for July. (So far) I dare say our drought is over, and now keeping up with mowing and weeding is a good laugh. I did get 4qts of figs despite loosing many to the heavy rains. The guavas should be ready now infact, they are usually about done now but the long dry spell through winter and spring set everything back, and I picked the first couple yesterday. Its been a week of rain and a week of hot and dry. Praying for the 92° afternoons then a rain shower comes and cools it off...
Annie, it says a lot when you're praying for 92°!
Funny about droughty spells. We're always happy for the rain that breaks them, but it's always the grass and weeds that shoot up first!
I look at your many July days of measurable rain and try not to get jealous! I think we had ONE rain event in July for a total of 1/2", which is not uncommon for our summers. Garden is doing pretty well with regular watering, though.
Michelle, that's not much rain! Sounds like you have a good irrigation system in place though. That's a garden life saver.
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