Beans and beets

I didn't realize I hadn't posted in three weeks.

The triple-digit heat is here. Most of my tomatoes are surviving by the shade of the hedges they are near. If they don't stay warm and moist during the heat of the day, the tomatoes wilt. When we were gone a week for a carcamp in Northeastern Arizona, we came back to wilted tomatotes. They all recovered and are fine now, but our sweet peppers dropped their blossoms and won't bear any fruit for a while.

The beets are still doing well, which is amazing as beets are cool-weather plants. The beets are under the shade of an old futon frame I placed over the cabbage/beets/spinach. All three veggies are doing well; nothing has bolted yet.

Another thing that has amazed me is the corn. I planted an old packet dated 11/2006 a week ago and by gawd the corn's sprouting! With lows at night in the low 70s everything is just taking off. We have five stalks of sweet corn (planted 4-28) that are now over 3' tall. The butternut squash is also growing fast.

Only our pole beans are still philosophizing about whether they should grow beans or not. Both the pole and bush beans are vegetatively growing tall, it's just that they haven't borne much fruit.