Sculpin

Last week the temperature wasn’t even hitting 70 F, so I put wall-o-waters around some of the pepper plants. I’d heard of people in the area using them year-round on their hot-weather vegetables, and thought I’d give it a try.

Today it hit somewhere close to 90. It’s hot, all right. (Some friends in 100-degree Portland are probably grumbling, “Whiner!” at this point.) How hot is it? So hot that one of those wall-o-waters lost structural stability as its plastic softened. It crumpled smack onto its pepper plant. Damn. Next time, I’ll reinforce them with tomato cages.

I’m starting to harvest the first baby carrots of the year. Purple Haze is, at this age at least, not as purple as I’d hoped. Mokum is pretty good, with a nicely developed root; good germination rate, too. No opinion yet on Nutri-Red.

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