My Garden is now in ... 96 degrees is hot.

[Botany]

Tomatoes:
Brandywine
Pink Brandywine
Jet Star
Cherokee Purple
Sun Gold
Celebrity

Peppers:
CA Wonder
Serrano
Red cayenne

From seed Joe’s Long Red Pepper… great for hanging and using all winter …seed savers
Cilantro
Watermelon Black Diamond … I am gonna kill some groundhogs
Swiss Chard
Sugar Snap peas …too late …. Might try again in late August

Basil:
San Genovese
Thai Cinnamon Basil

Potatoes
Some that I bought that sprouted

Traps
Smaller have a heart trap for rats and squirrels…. Peanuts in the shell and slim Jim’s
Larger have a heart trap for woodchucks aka groundhogs aka Ohio Road Panthers ….
blueberries, peanuts, and apple

Lots of Natives from my Buddy Neil @ Prairie Nursery
Lizard Tails
Annuals. ….annual Gallardia from seed
Nasturtiums

96 F is hot

[Diamond_Dog]

1. It is brutal here in NE OH as well.

92 here so far. You have a nice variety there Botany. I also have Celebrity and Brandywine tomatoes.

I’m afraid my three rows of nice lettuce will burn up in this heat.

Do you usually plant watermelon and how does it do?

[Botany]

2. I'm kind of an expert in this stuff

Watermelons I plant by seed in a 10 to 15 gallon pot that the bottom 1/2 is filled with
wheat straw and a planting mix of BX grow mix, silica sand (play sand), composted manure,
and espoma plant tone …. my go to mix for everything
Watermelon grows like a champ … they like drainage and lots of H2O … groundhogs are a
Problem … in a garden plant them a little high on a mound with silica sand and soil…. If
you are close enough to the lake and have sandy soil you are good!

lettuce … wait for late summer early fall … chard is a good hot weather green … spinach is
good too

Btw late summer is good for sugar snap peas too. Rabbits and groundhogs are a problem

[Diamond_Dog]

4. We've been eating lettuce for almost a month now.

Red and green leaf and Romaine.

My hubby put up a double layer wire fence around the garden to keep out critters. 🙂. We got annihilated by ground hogs one year …. hence the fence.

I will make a note of your watermelon system. Might try it next year!

[zeusdogmom]

3. Ohio Road Panthers

Made me laugh. Hadn’t heard that term before. I have one of those effing critters in my yard. Despite fencing and netting he/she got into the bed and ate 6 heads of cabbage. Hope the bellyache was intense and of long duration

You have a nice selection of varieties in your garden Botany.

I had really good luck with peas this year in central Ohio. Spring cool and damp. So tasty. Cut all of the lettuce in the bed ca 6 AM today because I knew it would be done in by this heat. I have a very large zip lock bag in the refrigerator - should be good for a few days of tasty salads. I currently have lettuce and other greens in a Greenstalk in a protected area of my deck. So far it is working well but does need a lot of tending. I also planted leaf lettuce around the tomatoes growing in wide pots. Lots of empty real estate there until the tomatoes get bigger and fuller. Good crop. Will be switching to basil plants as soon as they get a little bigger. I started my own from seed - had crop failure so I needed to try again. 🥴.

Love my garden even if it is a lot of work some days

Be smart everyone in this heat. We all know what we need to do