HT, Not sure why it didn’t work… bummer on the frost loss 

I had to start caging my tomatoes. Got 36 caged and ran out of usable cages. 20 left I will just stake.
A few blossoms already

Hope everyone's garden is thriving.
We are already into drought conditions. Streams are low, grass is brown and watering everyday.
The chickens are 7 weeks old and very good sized. The plan was to process them in 2 weeks. I just hope they survive this weeks heat wave of 90 degrees.

9th driest May on record ( 200 years).
Water restrictions in our town and fire watches.
This is the earliest drought conditions I can remember.
Not good as there's nothing significant in forecast for 7 days except possibly cooler temperatures by Saturday.

I'm spraying the chickens twice a day so they don't boil. Hopefully they can make the next 2 days before processing.

Ya scorcher here as well. No rain in the forecast for a couple weeks. I've been running the sprinklers every evening. Everything looks great besides that. Good luck with the birds.

Just finished up tomato plant maintenance. Pruned and staked em. Pepper plants are looking choice and the vine stuff is climbing nicely. Man if we had a good 2 dayer soaker, that stuff would look like a jungle already. 🤞 🌧

Pen , I'm happy to hear things are doing OK. Just gotta get through 1 more day of scorcher, for now.
Chickens here look like they will make it thanks for afternoon hose showers and cool nights. We're ready to get things done on Saturday.
Just finished the 2hr watering duty on garden Have to wait until the sun isn't beating down.
Also tied a second string on most tomatoes.
Heck yeah, I'd take 2 days of showers..
Most our farmers are drawing water from creeks and streams.
I'm on the fence about my garlic turnout. It was a mild winter and it sprouted all winter. The stalks are thick and tall ( with scapes now ) but just picked 1 and the bulbs are a little undersized that I'd thought. Still a B grade and we got a few weeks left.
Peppers ain't doing squat. Not sure why I have trouble. Maybe need more fertilizer ?
Lettuce is weak, spinach so so , beans weak ,radishes maybe ready next week. Cabbage and Brussels doing great but they're the long haul.
Didn't bother or get time for cukes and zucchini. Local farm stands will do.
Fruit trees:
Zero peach blooms.
Apples and pears good
Blueberries good.

We didn't do pigs as my farmer retired from raising pigs and we'll take this year off.
All our livestock and game harvests seem to work out perfectly to almost the year of harvest.
We'll be short on pork in 2024.
Be well and stay cool

Update.
Chicken processing went extremely well.
Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze and all stations ready at the go.
While we've been living in smoke filled skies, the overcast and intermittent rain for about 5 days has helped tremendously.
Daily pickings of lettuce, spinach, radishes, scapes and a garlic bulb twice.
Tomatoes are rocking as is cabbage and Brussels.
Beans still so so and peppers, blah.
Lots of pears and apples on the trees. Got it down to a bi weekly spraying with neem. Seems to be working.
Currently there is no livestock on the homestead and will be so for the rest of 2023. Our freezers are stocked into 2024.

Here is 1 garlic bulb I just picked as I classified as b grade. I'm hoping for a 50% a/b harvest.
Enjoy the growing season.

So 5 days in a row we've had perception. Not a lot but just enough to keep the garden from having to water.
Good stuff. Tomatoes are already producing fruit. Probably clean out most of the spinach, radishes and lettuce within a week and replant with more green beans.
Garlic will definitely be harvested by July 4th weekend. Plan is to replant something in their beds.
I'm pretty booked up the entire month of June with fishing and claiming.
Hopefully get a late summer/ fall garden going again in July

first NICE rain for a long while here today -only about 20 mins but real  happy to have it.