We are about halfway through July and the weather forecast this week continues to show typical summer weather on the horizon. It goes like this: Mid-80s today and Friday, near 80 on Saturday and Sunday; mid-80s again Monday through Wednesday except near 90 degrees on Tuesday if the winds cooperate. All in all, exceptional weather, I’d say.
So far this month in Vancouver we are running right about normal with temperatures and rainfall. This summer we have logged in only four days at 90 degrees or higher. We usually average 15 or so 90-degree days each summer so we have a way to go. The past few years we have had 20 or more 90-degree days.
Weather observer Judy Weber, a little west of View, reported to me she discovered her first ripe tomato. “I have never in the 44 years on this property gotten one this early. It is a Siletz developed at Oregon State University many years ago. Nice deep color and excellent flavor.”
Your garden will grow rapidly now with the warm temperatures and sunny skies with many ripe tomatoes. In all my decades of gardening and observing weather, I can count on one hand the years of the so-called “green tomato summer.” Keep watering with no rain in sight.
