The heat is coming

I've been out a few times this week to water and weed and put down more STRAW (finally looked it up, we are using STRAW, not hay). Things are looking pretty good. We need to eat greens like crazy - go nuts with that stuff. I also made a better pea cage, so that oughta be safe now. We'll try to get out and water daily if we can, and every other day at the least, on account of the insane heat coming our way. FYI, I've been watering just using the hose without a nozzle and basically dumping water right at the base of the plants, which seems to work well and is a fairly fast way to water.

The peas, squash, greens, beets, chard, and 'maters are all looking good. Beans look pretty good but might need some poles (we need more tomato cages too). The peppers are looking decent, but not amazing, hopefully they will perk up. The herbs are not looking horrible, they just don't seem to be going crazy like I had hoped - maybe we need to take off the wind shields that we put on when we planted em and see if that helps.

There are a few spots that still need to be weeded and "strawed", and a few places where I guess we just put straw down over the weeds and they are poking through. The area where the squash was planted is looking kinda weedy, but I'm unsure where the plants and weeds begin and end on the south end of the rows, so maybe someone who planted those should weed them. Also, the far west row where we planted okra is a loss and we should clearcut that and plant more okra and/or some fall squash. The dudes behind us said okra is supposed to take 60 days from planting to eating, so we can have em by the end of August if we get em in now.

I'll try to get out and do some more weeding, caging, etc before we head for NYC.