Gonna be a hot one today!

Despite getting up earlier than usual still didn't get out to the garden until after 11. Projected temps today is about 93, we've already closed up and put the ac on at noon.

I may be killing my potato with too much water, the leaves are developing brown patches and I remember this happening years ago with my experiment growing in potting soil in containers. So hoping that it's reversible and will hold off watering tomorrow despite the continued heat.

No obvious signs of gopher incursions but they're sneaky like that, hoping they moved on along the wall.

Once again thought I took a picture of something but I didn't. But I gots peas!

One of the little pepper plants in that north bed (puny thing in the top picture closest to the camera) isn't looking too good. Could have been the excessive heat and it being so small or excessive watering..... but if it doesn't survive there are others doing just fine.

It was blazing hot so I didn't take that many pictures after all and Rocky did not get his walk, will hope to get out after the sun goes down and it's cooler. 

Once again the topic turns to what crops to plant when in my area. Due to the variable weather it's really hard to say 'plant after last frost'. Firstly, what frost? If we did get a frost I'd be planting in December when the soil is still too cold. Seriously, the calendar for San Diego varies highly, this isn't long stretches of flat land or a mountain valley. This is everything across the board, we've got coastal conditions where the weather is mostly mild and has 'May Grey/June Gloom' seasonally, hot inland valley where I am, mild temp in between areas where I used to live that isn't quite coastal but isn't inland either.  Not to mention that climate change is a real thing and those of us who make a point of noting weather patterns at certain times of the year have realized that cold weather is starting later, not lasting as long and the summers are getting hotter and longer. This means that planting cool weather crops indeed will mean (for me at least) planting in late fall or winter.

We do have 'mountains' but I have only visited there during spring or summer and it does get snow there but it's rare to last very long on the ground. Rain? What's that? Oh, occasional water falling from the sky that can be torrential along the coast and barely a drizzle where I or vice versa. Don't even get me started on soil differences.

So planning what to plant when is really a juggling act and can't go by Richard's Almanac for references heck, can't even use local garden experts for what to do if they live in a different area and don't have experience everywhere. Plant onions in the fall along with peas, carrots, radishes, lettuce. Onions, potatoes, chives and such get done in the early spring...oh wait I meant late winter.

Sigh.