{"id":2038,"date":"2007-07-30T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2017-07-19T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T22:55:16","slug":"week-30-723-729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weekly-comparison\/week-30-723-729\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 30: 7\/23 &#8211; 7\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dateline: 2007<\/strong><!-- 2007-07-30 --><br \/>\nI got very little done in the garden this week, other than dig a bit more caliche and gravel out of the back lawn and try to prepare it for replanting. All week it rained.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/30week20070726a.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens Week 30\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it rained.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320\"src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/30week20070726b.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens Week 30\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I never had a chance to mow the lawn. And the weeds are so out of control in some places that I&#8217;ve given up and will tackle those spots in the fall. Or winter.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/?p=305\">Pam\/Digging<\/a>, I find that orange cosmos is the perfect summer fill-in plant. I&#8217;m glad I planted a bunch just before I went on vacation. And I&#8217;m thankful for the temperatures in the 80s here in the last week of July when we&#8217;re usually wilting under the 100s.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Dateline: 2006<\/strong><!-- 2006-07-24 --><br \/>\nIn the spring when the perennials strain for a bit of sunlight to produce a weak flower or two, I consider thinning out the trees. Come the dead of summer and I think about planting more. Oh beautiful trees! How could I be so whimsical. How could I let my fancy be captured by those flashy, seductive flowers? Their joys are fleeting but trees stand strong and true through the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 2000<\/strong><br \/>\nSunday July 24, 2000<br \/>\nThe 12th straight day of 100+ high temperatures and the 33rd day without rain. And then it rains more than an inch, more than we usually get the entire month of July. It is a great pouring rain and it lasts more than two hours. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m at work, so I miss it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 1999<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday July 24, 1999<br \/>\nContinues very muggy, but cooler than usual for this time of year. Today&#8217;s high was only 94. Last year it was 101. But because it is so muggy, it is more unbearable, for people anyway. The plants are much happier with the moisture.<\/p>\n<p>Mowed the back lawn. It has never looked better. It&#8217;s completely filled in and deep green. Mowed the weeds in the front lawn, but leave the grass alone, so that it can continue its recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 1997<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday July 29, 1997<br \/>\nRain for the first time since the beginning of the month. About a 1\/4 of an inch around 7AM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 1996<\/strong><br \/>\nThursday July 23, 1998<br \/>\nAll counties in Texas are named federal agricultural disaster areas because of the ongoing heat and drought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dateline: 1995<\/strong><br \/>\nSunday July 23, 1995<br \/>\nI&#8217;m either watering plants heavily or have given up on them.<\/p>\n<p>Monday July 24, 1995<br \/>\nI was busy much of the weekend and didn&#8217;t spend much time in the garden. Whenever you think it can&#8217;t get worse, it does. Bare ground is showing through in many places in the meadow.<\/p>\n<p>Friday July 28, 1995<br \/>\nThe high hit 103 degrees. When I arrived home the black-eyed Susans and bluebonnets were limp on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday July 29, 1995<br \/>\nI watered the lawn today prepared at last to spend large amounts of water to save my remaining plants. Drip-watered the Japanese persimmon for 30 minutes. It remained overcast all day. The high reached only 94, which seemed heavenly cool. I would enjoy summer if the temperature was never higher than 95. Of course I say that now after temperatures of 104, but on June 24th, I was complaining how unbearably hot 94 degrees was! Yet today, when the moist breezes blew over us from the Gulf, JQS and I just stood there and audibly sighed in relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/30week20070724a.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens Week 30\" \/><br \/><i>2007-07-24. The weeds have won but the cosmos make me smile. Let it grow.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}