Rolling down my garden

 Although 90% of seedlings have been planted and are already grown enough to be considered adult plants, there are still a bunch of baby plants all around my garden and the yard. At this time of the season, I rarely have so many small plants in my garden. Usually, I'd start sowing around March and most of the plants would get big. This year, as I mentioned a million times, is different. This year I didn't plan enough plants for my garden, so I had to sow more than initially planned, and now I have lots of baby plants around. Also, I've sown some perennial flowers that are just germinating so there are more baby plants to take care of.  This time of the season is very moody, with lots of showers and temperature jumps and drops and it's hard to grow baby plants in the garden, but as I said, this year is completely different and baby plants are just booming. Temperatures above 30°C(86°F) are speeding the germination process. Since the soil has not heated up fully yet, ther...

It has been incredibly hot the past couple few days. We've literally jumped from spring to late summer. Temperatures are over 32°C (89.6°F), and although this means that there is no frost damage, it also means that the freshly planted seedlings will be struggling a lot. The afternoons in the garden are hell, I even had to change my gardening time from evening to sunrise and finish until 8am to avoid the heat. This is something I usually do in the middle of July, not in the first couple of weeks of May. Also, the extreme heat means that I have to water the seedlings every evening, especially since there hasn't been any rain this week. I use a whole barrel of water a day just to keep the seedlings watered. Even with these high temperatures the rest of the seedlings couldn't wait, so during the week, I've transplanted all the seedlings that were ready for transplanting, including cucumbers, the rest of the zucchinis, cabbages, kale, and some of the flower seedlings.  Most ...