Took a few pictures today

Onions have all been harvested now, and we got some real nice ones this year. Here is a picture of a bunch we pulled to give away at the church.

And just so you could see the size of these I had to grab something handy to set next to them so you can compare!

Grain sorghum is up and doing well already, the next two pictures are of the same field.

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And there is lots of cotton planted here this year. The next 2 pictures are of a field just up the road.

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Earlier this year I planted a few tomato plants out by the front gate. This is a little plot where I usually grow watermelons for our use but switched up this year. They are growing well, but so far only a few blossoms.

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In this same small plot, some watermelons came up on their own from last years growth I guess. I dug most of them up until the wife saw me and complained, so these are still there and I'm having to train them to creep away from the tomatos.

The garden is struggling with the heat and lack of moisture, but it's trying. If we could eat weeds life would be great as I have been working hard to keep them out as time permits.

With the temps up into the 90's now and the humidity through the roof everything is struggling but some of the heat tolerant plants are doing pretty well. The next 2 pics are Cocozelle Squash. I've never grown it before, but apperantly it likes the heat since it looks pretty good.

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And as I recall, this is Early Prolific Straightneck Squash.

So for those of you up north (especially Minnesota) who are still getting hit with the cold weather as well as snow, hang in there......we are doing our best to push some heat up your way!

Thanks for the pictures, it does give us hope. And I sure appreciate the offer of sending some of the excess heat up our way. Dang, we can sure use it!!

Paul in MN, with 3" of new snow this morning.

Thanks for the pics- always like to see how things are going in other areas- although it pains me to see that you have harvested your huge onions before I can even plant mine. I'm still waiting for garden area to get dry enough to till.

Where in the south are you?

Dry enough? You should be here, it's so dry if you stir up the dust you just make more dust. Thank goodness for the irrigation water we have available to us to keep things alive.
Anyway, we are in deep South Texas. Stone throw to the south to Mexico and a stone throw east to the Gulf of Mexico.

those onions look amazing! We did manage to get our potatoes planted a week ago but yesterday had 4 inches of slush and snow in northeast Iowa!

Nice pics, but I just want to know how you get that Natty light to grow!!

Hi
Here's a dumb question, do you take one crop harvest and call it quits, or do you start over again?
Chris

The only dumb question is the question never asked.
With our climate, crops are in the ground 11 to 12 months out of the year. I guess that answers your question!

That Natty Light never had a chance....to grow that is. It got downed pretty quick after I took the pic, it was so darn hot pulling up those onions...........I was thirsty!

Great pics, and great food stuff too. I was wondering where you were with the color of the dirt. I was thinking about looking at some land in south Texas, below the tornado belt... but the water issues everywhere west of the Miss keeps me... just looking. Don't you usually get plenty of rain there? Or is it just in monsoon/hurricane season? thanks for posting these! Tony

September is the wet month for the year. Yes, if we get or are near a hurricane we will get plenty of water then too. When Hurricane Dolly came through here almost 3 years ago, we got 20 inches. Now that wasn't pretty at all.
We are on pretty high land and we never got any water in the house (except for multiple roof leaks). This picture shows how close the standing water did get though, as well as one of many trees that were damaged.

And the picture below is the only way we had in and out of here after the hurricane. This picture was taken 3 days after the hurricane and we were going into town for water that the National Guard was giving out. Our power was out for 6 1/2 days but we survived just fine.

i live about I guess about 40 miles west of you.
My melons might make as I have water nearby.
Sweet corn is gone.