My day lilies are brown & just plain fried~~ cooked in the hot sun even tho I water regularly.Today I had to shade several beds with big beach umbrellas! New look for my garden! I used to just cover for frost & now cover for hot baking sunshine!
Mine are fried too Muddy, and I don't have any beach umbrellas. Everything here is fried...so in my case, the yellowing would be too little water...and extreme heat. My veggie garden is suffering as well, beans gone...just yellowed up and went away. Trying to keep the maters and cukes alive by watering. We have been officially declared severe drought status. A repeat now for the past few years. Our temps are to exceed 100 with the heat indices to be between 108 & 110 through Monday. Sigh.
Asters & Veronicas are pretty drought tolerant to an extent. So in Minnesota, you might be giving them too much to drink.
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We had some really good rains in late spring. Then, I planted new plants on the slope and watered them often. Since these guys are towards the bottom, they probably did get a little water logged. Poor babies. I guess I can ease up...
Posts: 4237 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: Dec 01, 2003
Hey muddyshoes...would love to see what plants look like under umbrellas! That cracks me up.
BTW, we had some 30-40 mph winds last week. I found our table umbrella laying upright on the side of our house. I thought someone had stolen it. I still can't believe it blew all the way off the deck, down to the ground, up a hill and around a corner. But, there it laid!
Posts: 4237 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: Dec 01, 2003
We will be fried this weekend. We are at 92.5º right now & going up...supposed to hit at least 100º today and then worse for the weekend & early next week.
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