{"id":1536,"date":"2003-08-08T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-09T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:07:26","slug":"the-heat-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weather\/the-heat-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heat Is On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time of year again: day after day of triple-digit highs. Yesterday it reached 108 degrees at Camp Mabry. That broke the 50-year record for the day. Yesterday was the hottest day this year&#8211;until today, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at 2:12PM, the temperature reached 110 degrees at Camp Mabry. That&#8217;s a record high for August, and it tied with for second-hottest day ever recorded in Austin, 110 degrees on September 4, 2000. Austin&#8217;s all time high was 112 on September 5, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>A freakish thunderstorm brought 2 minutes of rain to my garden, but at least the rain is supposed to break the streak of triple-digit highs.<\/p>\n<p>So what do I do in the garden this time of year? I hole up inside, making plans for the fall garden, updating this garden website, and reading garden books and catalogs for consolation and inspiration&#8211;same as northern gardeners do when their snowed in for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>I do a bit of hand-watering each day between 7AM and 9AM, weeding and straightening up as I go. I have to aerate the mulch as I go or it forms a hard crust that doesn&#8217;t let the water soak in under it. But the yard definitely has a weedy, seedy, neglected look which defies you to find a garden in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re hot, you&#8217;re hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}