The next zoom hangout will be August 3rd. 4pm pacific time/ 7pm eastern time. I will be hosting!
Be there! Or be… uh, probably tending your garden 
If anyone would like to chime in with what they hope to be up to in a month’s time in their garden, I’d love to know. I’m hoping August doesn’t bring another heat wave. Pretty please! 
I expect the tomatoes to be rolling in by then and maybe starting to can.
Things are going fairly well here right now. I hope by August to have a lot of tomatoes in jars as sauce and juice. Probably will be collecting a lot of sweet potato seeds by then too. Early planted bush beans will be in jars or eaten and seeds saved. Early planted corn will be drying down, maybe finished drying.
I’ll be getting ready to plant late and cold hardy things like onions, carrots, mustard and so on. These will probably need lots of water to get started but once established should do well going into fall. I measured the other day just to see, and it takes approximately 500 gallons to hand water my entire front garden and takes three or four hours to do it. Hopefully I will not have to do that every week, but who knows.
There are things growing there but I’ve mostly abandoned the back garden as far as watering goes. Part of my adaptation is to focus more intensely on a smaller area. Yield wise it seems to be going well, I’m getting the same yield or even more, from less.
Unfortunately I missed the last zoom call due to a work schedule conflict. 
Hopefully I can make the next one. The Winter Squash (Cucurbita maxima) are blooming now and the only two Cushaws that I planted will be blooming by then so I should have some photos to share for the meeting.