Another day in the rising heat

 I really am not an early riser unless it's something important. I wanted to get out and water before the heat got too bad but turns out that wasn't until noon-ish when I finally was able to.

Definitely squash is happening. Top picture is today, it's dropped down considerably and the second one is from yesterday. Should be ready in another few days the way squash grows.

Only one female flower out of this current cycle but there may be a male at about the same growth for pollinating. As for the tomatoes I now have 8.

I picked those two red ones last night and they're more small round balls than typical Roma shape but that's okay, it happens. They are all sitting with the onions and garlic getting a bit more ripe and will be picking another three or four by midweek.

And another tomato sprouted! Thought I got another picture after watering the whole bed, oh well. This turns out very well actually because by the time these two are ready to plant, the current plants will be ready to rip out. Now if the beans would just get moving, but it's only been six days and germination is 7-10 days 😜😉.

Feels like spring again, except for the heat and sun and.... all that.

Not one but two invertebrates caught!

It is definitely a smokey haze today, there's  wildfires somewhere and the wind is just blowing the smoke all over. So a very brown hazy day today.

The sidewalks are not that brown, it really is that hazy. Okay so the garden sidewalk maybe a bit dirtier but the shade fuzziness tells also how hazy it is. I can't smell anything of smoke thankfully because that would mean really bad conditions.

Larva number one was on the smaller onion in the corner. Very obvious given the coloring so picked that one off and tossed it into the bush. The second one I had seen the rampaging holes in the pepper leaves and finally caught the little bugger armyworm in the act.

A Western (or Common?) Buckeye butterfly stopped by and rested in the shade of the squash plant. It stayed there long enough for not only getting a picture but short video as well (only 13 seconds) because that was the only way I could get a good shot of the wings.

That's all the excitement for today. There's plenty of tomatillo flowers happening and even some fruit forming, four male squash flowers but still waiting for timing on the female opening up. I nipped off some buds on the pepper plant because it's still way too young to be making fruit. Nothing seemed to need watering as I watered yesterday. Even the pots were doing okay so I'll be taking pictures of the tomato seedlings and posting those in the garden group for trade. Not sure what but will see what people have.

Hazy, lazy days of summer for sure.