Transplanted a couple of medium potted tomato plants to larger pots last night. This morning they seem to have transfer shock. Not sure they'll survive. Bummer but the reason I moved them was that they looked sickly and I thought maybe the pots were too small for them.

If they don't make it, I'm down to 20 tomato plants. Happily, most of those are now flowering. Saw quite a few flowers the other day. Not seeing any new fruit yet but haven't examined closely.

Did one more treatment to counteract the sodium last night. Now I think I'll hold off on any more for a little while. When I go to till before winter, I'll treat and fertilize heavily. Appears to have done some good but with the late heat wave it's hard to assess.

Pumpkins are beginning to flower again. Heat really affects them badly. No female flowers yet.

Ladybugs came in yesterday. However, of the 9000 ordered, at least 8000 were dead. Requested replacement from Amazon. I think it was a UPS thing. I saw the driver pull up and met him at the truck. Still, when I took the box from him, it felt hot. I even remarked on it. Opened the box a few minutes later to find most of them dead. UPS sucks. Ladies were packaged well and while the box was not labeled for special care, it was obvious there was something living in there from the four large air holes cut in the box.

Still waiting on the Dill's Giant pumpkin seeds. May be too late but I'll go ahead and plant a couple just for kicks. Couldn't hurt anything, right?

Weather forecast again calls for temps going into the 80's next week. Not holding my breath. Humidity is again hovering around 6%. We're like 5" below the normal 6" normal for the year on rainfall. Even desert lovers are complaining now. I have not had to mow the grass a single time this year.

Not sure I'm going to do a fall/winter planting at all this year. Guess it depends on if I get a tiller at a date which makes it reasonable and how happy I am with the soil. In any case, going to till the entire yard, front and back. Take it as deep as the tiller will go and mix the mulch into the soil. Seem to be having good results where I did that manually. Plant new grass in early spring. And get the soil professionally tested.Transplanted a couple of medium potted tomato plants to larger pots last night. This morning they seem to have transfer shock. Not sure they'll survive. Bummer but the reason I moved them was that they looked sickly and I thought maybe the pots were too small for them.

If they don't make it, I'm down to 20 tomato plants. Happily, most of those are now flowering. Saw quite a few flowers the other day. Not seeing any new fruit yet but haven't examined closely.

Did one more treatment to counteract the sodium last night. Now I think I'll hold off on any more for a little while. When I go to till before winter, I'll treat and fertilize heavily. Appears to have done some good but with the late heat wave it's hard to assess.

Pumpkins are beginning to flower again. Heat really affects them badly. No female flowers yet.

Ladybugs came in yesterday. However, of the 9000 ordered, at least 8000 were dead. Requested replacement from Amazon. I think it was a UPS thing. I saw the driver pull up and met him at the truck. Still, when I took the box from him, it felt hot. I even remarked on it. Opened the box a few minutes later to find most of them dead. UPS sucks. Ladies were packaged well and while the box was not labeled for special care, it was obvious there was something living in there from the four large air holes cut in the box.

Still waiting on the Dill's Giant pumpkin seeds. May be too late but I'll go ahead and plant a couple just for kicks. Couldn't hurt anything, right?

Weather forecast again calls for temps going into the 80's next week. Not holding my breath. Humidity is again hovering around 6%. We're like 5" below the normal 6" normal for the year on rainfall. Even desert lovers are complaining now. I have not had to mow the grass a single time this year.

Not sure I'm going to do a fall/winter planting at all this year. Guess it depends on if I get a tiller at a date which makes it reasonable and how happy I am with the soil. In any case, going to till the entire yard, front and back. Take it as deep as the tiller will go and mix the mulch into the soil. Seem to be having good results where I did that manually. Plant new grass in early spring. And get the soil professionally tested.