Q. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 104 degrees here in West Texas with a 35 mile an hour wind.
There are supposed to be days of triple digits, starting today.
I'm wondering, after seeing my neighbor's corn dry up last year in this kind of weather, what kinds of vegetables adore this stuff?
I've been growing plants in big pots and hiding them on the porch for shade.
What heat, wind, and sun-loving vegetables should I plan to grow if I live here?
There are supposed to be days of triple digits, starting today.
I'm wondering, after seeing my neighbor's corn dry up last year in this kind of weather, what kinds of vegetables adore this stuff?
I've been growing plants in big pots and hiding them on the porch for shade.
What heat, wind, and sun-loving vegetables should I plan to grow if I live here?
A. Sounds like typical NDak summer weather only we get a little hotter and definitely a lot windier.
I adopt a two pronged approach.
One is benign neglect (xeriscape) with native plants and there domesticated cousins.
The other is all out war on Mother Nature with every trick I can muster, like drip irrigation.
My most aggressive technique is a high fenced area around my picnic table and grill that is cooled with misting nozzles I borrowed from some of our farm spray rigs. Under the right conditions of high heat and low humidity it can lower the temps 15 degrees.
Last August we had a couple days of triple digits with 50+ mph winds and single digit humidity that resulted in damage similar to a hard freeze.
Some of the plants that do well here are sunflowers, flax, coreopsis, hollyhocks, heritage roses, most herbs and ornamental grasses.
RScott
I adopt a two pronged approach.
One is benign neglect (xeriscape) with native plants and there domesticated cousins.
The other is all out war on Mother Nature with every trick I can muster, like drip irrigation.
My most aggressive technique is a high fenced area around my picnic table and grill that is cooled with misting nozzles I borrowed from some of our farm spray rigs. Under the right conditions of high heat and low humidity it can lower the temps 15 degrees.
Last August we had a couple days of triple digits with 50+ mph winds and single digit humidity that resulted in damage similar to a hard freeze.
Some of the plants that do well here are sunflowers, flax, coreopsis, hollyhocks, heritage roses, most herbs and ornamental grasses.
RScott
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