N&C Midwest—July 2024

**Scorpio Rising** 7/1/2024, 7:45 am

Summer is in full swing, and so are our gardens! As I said yesterday, my sugar snaps are done and will be removed, and my garlic is ready to pull too! That will free up most of a 4x4, so plan to amend and replace those with some Dragon Tongue beans (yeah, I screwed up planting those….) and some lettuces!

What is your preferred heat tolerant lettuce? I'm growing Romaine (which I use as a leaf lettuce), and Merlot. Both seem to tolerate the heat fairly well. From OG….

I have been happy with Merveiile de Quattro Saisons, but I plan to try the new red one I got from Pinetree, too. Also, Spotted Butter Oak has done well here in the past.

OhioGardener 7/1/2024, 9:02 am

Can you believe that it is July already? I need to get the Butternut plants into the ground. We haven't had any rain for weeks, and everything is getting so dry. There has been rain north of us, south of us, east of us, and west of us, but there has been no rain here. The weather map shows us as "moderate drought", but not sure how moderate it is.

The raised beds, though, are on drip irrigation and everything is growing great. Going to be harvesting more lettuce, spinach, summer squash, eggplant, carrots, and tomatoes today.

OhioGardener 7/2/2024, 7:54 pm

Two more soon-to-be-baked eggplants are developing, and will soon be ready for harvest. I have three plants, one per square, and they are really growing.

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