So if you've been reading my posts you know that I tried growing potatoes in garbage cans. That was a big success and I put in a new crop two weeks ago using some potatoes from my first batch. Last week we had a couple of days of really high heat. One day it was supposed to be 86 and it turned out to be 101. If I would have known it was going to be that hot I would have moved the cans into the shade. When I dug down to see if they had survived, I discovered that they had been cooked in the soil. I am so bummed about this! Now, I'm going to have to hope I can find some suitable potatoes at a farmer's market and start all over! On top of that, I have a mouse problem in my tomatoes. As soon as one is just about ripe enough to pick a mouse starts eating it. My cat, Bruno, has killed two mice so far, but I am sure there are more because the landlord for the building next to mine recently cleaned up the back yard of his building. It had been quite overgrown with ivy. I am sure the mice moved from there into my tomato patch.

Sara