This is the other new potato I planted this year
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Lol. They may need plants & birds… 
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Looks like Yukon Gold in a red coat. 
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sigh
It was 112 here yesterday, and as of noonish today it’s at least 105. Criminy.
Need I add that nothing here is flowering except a couple of cactus. OH- and one of the plumerias is blooming! A bright spot in God’s pizza oven.
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Sorry to hear that! So far it’s been unusually “mild” here! I’m never sure what “mild” means, but for me it means I don’t think it’s been above 90 more than once so far! 
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LOL I’d just about kill for that right about now!
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That was two days ago. Right now the weather app says it is 100 f at 6:24 PM. But supposed to be a bit cooler tommorow.
The potatoes have “had it”.
From one of husbands patients !
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I’ve thought about making a simple cover out of clear plastic, slanted and 2 feet ( 0.6M) off the ground to keep rain off of herbs like tarragon, oregano and rosemary. With well-drained soil, keeping the foliage drier should help. The other option is to grow them indoors, possibly under lights, and put the winter hardy ones outside, planted for the winter.
We’re experiencing bad effects from climate changes. Mulberries started growing in March, due to warmth, only to get killed back later that month. This resulted in no fruit. Some traditional crops are impractical to grow, due to pollen sterility from heat. We’re headed towards 100°F (38°C) this week, which combined with the high humidity here (70-99% RH), makes outdoor activities dangerous past mornings.
Poor electrical grid management and the greed to build massive data centers near here means the electricity isn’t reliable when it’s very hot or very cold. Brown outs/lack of electricity have become common. The entire county lost power this winter when it dropped to 3°F ( - 16°C). Emergency shelters were opened up instead of closing data centers or improving the grid beforehand. Without a backup generator, here, you’re screwed.
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I’ve tried using some sheeting, and I’ve been using metal cloches and plastic cloches for some plants. This is more for insects than weather.
I lucked out with the best spinach and bear arugula I’ve had thanks to the weird weather this year.
I don’t make too much effort to grow tomatoes anymore because they become a victim of blight by mid August when they traditionally start producing the most. It’s been at least a decade of blighty tomatoes from Aug 15th onwards.
I remember picking nice tomatoes until late September 25 years ago.
This year, I only planted 1 grape tomato plant from a seedling that I’ll keep in a container, one larger tomato plant that was started by the garden centre that’s produced a few cat- faced green tomatoes so far, 4 small seedling plants and 3 plants from seed.
We will see how these 9 tomato plants do.
I am lucky to have a gas generator for power to our house. I do have a small grow light with 4 little containers. I haven’t been successful using it. I live in a fairly humid area and I am also worried about mold in the house. The pad that was designed to be kept under the containers to keep them watered from below developed mildew.
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I have thought about bringing a couple of my doctors produce, but I haven’t done it yet!
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Hopefully their spouses would appreciate it if they don’t!
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I recently binged on a pack of the Hiiro cherry tomatoes, and really loved them. I saved a few seeds (as best as I could extract them). Do you think it’s too late to try to grow these? I’m in the Northeast US so our growing season is unfortunately shorter anyway.
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I just did a quick search and found some cherry tomatoes can be as little as 55 DTM (days to maturity), but if Giro’s are hybrids, the tomatoes the seeds grow may not be the same as the ones you are.
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Hmmm…what to do, what to do? I read online that they are hybrids, and were developed for the Japanese market. I guess I can try two seeds and see what comes out.
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Not too late! Do it! I have enjoyed Hiiros here, too. Haven’t grown them.
Good luck!
I’ve planted pepper and tomato seeds as late as early July here in southwestern Ontario and I think my climate is pretty close to yours.
Some people on Reddit have had luck growing them from seeds they saved
https://www.reddit.com/r/tomatoes/comments/1d18ois/hiiros_tomato_seeds/
From that subreddit
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I planted this from seed along with others intended to be “bunching onions”. In retrospect I realize they were labeled something like allium cepa 'Italian Red of Firenze " or similar.
Any advice about using more of “the white part”?
Making more " tiger salad".
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I bought some water lotus seeds from Temu (yeah, I know), and when they almost all sprouted, so I put them in a pretty pot they sent up leaves, then the water in the shade, even, got to darn near simmering, and they all died and turned black. Meanwhile, I discovered before the thermal boom lowered that I actually have two types of tomatoes in the poor tortured tomato pot. But they’re not doing squat right no, which is okay, as long as they live through this apocalypse
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I only had a small number of blossoms for the vinegar, but I was able to make a small jar (1/2 cup or so) and used some in a dressing last week. It was delicious. Had a mild onion flavor, but I may have been too conservative with the amount of blossoms I used. Will definitely do this again next year. I went out to see if more chives were blooming but those darn bunnies and squirrels have already chomped them down. 
