This blows. I have broccoli and cauliflower just starting to head up. I'm just going to water and hope they can make it until this weekend when temps will be in the 60fs for HIGHS.

Look at this:
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Unreal...

You'd think it was July, not the first week of June! If we hit 97 today, it will be the first time in 5 years.

My broccoli isn't heading at all yet, so I'll be doing the same as you. I'm harvesting peas, but this heat will kill any chances for a 2nd crop. Already picked most of the spinach. But the lettuce was doing so well!

The last time La Crosse hit 100F was July of 2006... I remember because I got married around that time and it was brutally hot.

I see Minneapolis is sitting at 96F right now. Pretty crazy after the winter they went through.

You can give me 70F to 80F temps all summer... Anytime its above 80F (especially with humidity) I run for shade/AC. Most plants seem to do fine in that temp range.

We are not that high, but it's been 94 every single day for a month. It is very hard to get things planted. Only one rain day in that month too. My barrels are dry! I prefer 70-80 all summer too, however I prefer 40-50 all winter. It's a trade off!!!

I'm about 91 now. I'm about 875 ft. elevation which is a degree cooler.

Broccoli heads are very large and the first sweet corn is about 30 inches tall and loves the weather. Also I have hand pollinated a couple watermelon this week.

Twin Cities are sitting at 101F right now... Red Wing, MN is 102F... 97F here.

my tomatoes are happy but the lettuce is bitter

We're just never happy, are we! :-)

Everybody can't be happy at the same time.

The melons are finally happy, but since they spent all last month very unhappy indeed, they're going to have a late season.

Maybe we should start a "goldilocks" subgroup just for Frank?

I'm a big time weather nerd, so something like this is pretty fun for me. This is something most of us up here will never see again in our lives. (100F heat on or before June 7th)

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At least a cold blast is in the works for the end of the week.

But will it be too late to save the spring crops?

I'm under an air quality alert.

Frank, How do you get the NOAA map to transfer here? It isn't bringing it all here for me.

I am just north of Frank. I was out mulching at 7:30 am and was drenched in sweat - in the shade. This is the first time I have gotten cole crops in "early enough" April 29th. My broccoli and cauliflower havent started heading up yet, but must be close. They are huge and healthy -with no insect damage. Now I am wondering whether it was all a waste of time and energy. I have only gotten 4 pea pods as I was a bit late with those. Its all pretty depressing.

Wayne-

I'm not sure what part of Indiana you are in?

Indianapolis
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/

you can toggle the little arrows to find your local NWS office.

Mandolls-
I'm wondering the same thing. I spent a lot of time/energy/effort on all these broccoli/cauliflower and today I cut the first decent sized broccoli head (it wasn't tight). I had mine under plastic to get a head start. Who knows what happens. I've had NO insect pressure either vs last fall when I had every known cabbage moth in the county in my plants. It wouldn't be the first time I've had a flop and it won't be the last!

So we had a short, cold, extremely rainy spring, followed by a furnace blast. Yes, the broccoli and peas are in bad shape, the lettuce is two feet tall and every spring brassica is in full bloom (except komatsuna). and the pest cycle is out of whack. By now we should have seen cabbage moths, but not one here. However, I think I saw a squash borer today. We will get crops, guys.

Grow okra!

I don't think brief heatwaves are that damaging to crops like cauliflower, just be sure they have adequate moisture. It's one thing to have a day or two or three of 90s followed by a return to our normal Upper Midwest/Great Lakes 70s/50s type normal weather. Its that Texas type weeks on end of 90s/70s that will do them in.

I already saw signs that the Romaine was starting to bolt, and this is Jericho, supposedly the most heat-resistant variety.

I hope the strawberries can take this 90+ degree heat. I've been watering every day, but they still look wilted. The berries are plentiful, but still have a long way to go.

This is our second 96 degree day here. Tomorrow it is due to drop down to the mid sixties. (whew) The shelling and sugar snap peas are just starting to bloom, so I've been watering and shading them. Hopefully I can get something decent from them. The lettuce I planted seems okay so far, but the spinich is past done for. It went in the compost a few days ago. Beans will replace it.

Kim

This has just been a TERRIBLE spring gardening season here- first time in my new home so building the garden from scratch, if it wasn't cold and rainy (preventing tilling) it immediately was in the high 90s. Never had a CHANCE at spring veggies.

Record highs here in the East, too. 97 in the western Catskills.

This is when being on the coast pays.

After getting to 99 here two days ago, it was 48 last night! Bizarre weather. My tomatoes are going to be very confused. Still, the heat wave seemed to induce flower formation on the tomatoes and eggplant, so maybe it wasnt such a bad thing. (and my lettuce is fine)

Absolutely pouring here, although cooler. Yesterday my plants were wilting, now their flooded. :/ My onions are pretty upset about it, too.

I know it is a bit early in the season, but the next several days, with rain and highs of 77,73,78,68,76, are ideal to start outside a number of large fall vegetables, lacinato kale, collard, rutabaga, broccoli, kale, cabbage, and fennel. These wild weather fluctuations can be used to advantage. In particular most of the brassica do not germinate at temperatures above 80. I find that only turnips germinate in hot soil. I have 72 lacinato in cells and one bed of kale seeded last night, plus 72 collards that were started in april and have been in the ground since mid-May. I will do the rest tonight. If I am not happy with the upcoming weather, I will keep the cells in shade on my porch for a while.

Hey, y'all sent your cold air down here a few months ago. We're just evening the score.

After being 94F yesterday, we dropped to 54F last night... The cold front came through with almost no clouds and of course no rain. Last good rain being May 25th. Grass is brown around here.

International Falls, MN was 31F this morning!

Four inches of water since 11 last nite - and more to come, from the look of the radar. What a year!

Well, believe it or not, after all of my complaining about the deluge last month, I would like some rain, too. It dries up fast when its 96 degrees and windy. The storm front blew through last night around 2:00 in the morning, with wind and lightning, and our power flickered on and off for close to an hour, had to be a branch against a line somewhere, but not a drop of rain -- it all went north to the Flint area or south around Monroe and Lake Erie. Today, the front has pushed all of the storms south into Ohio and Indiana, said to come back towards us tomorrow as a warm front with a renewed chance of storms.