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Weather here in the upstate of SC is HOT!!! Mid 90's are causing my poor crops to go thru heat exhaustion!! I water in the AM and water in the PM to keep my potted crops from wilting. Potted plants are all tomatoes and hot peppers.

The raised garden bed really took off this week! A few corn plants are coming up and my green beans and squash are climbing all over the place! Beans are producing and look plentiful.

We are still battling chippies!! I bought some deterrent from Wally World and it works except the chippies are coming up from the bottom of the garden, not going down from the top! I need help on that one!! I can't get these things out of my yard! I am thinking about buying one of those sonic doohickeys that sends sound waves and keeps the critters away...anyone had any experience with those?

We have been getting afternoon storms about 6 at night but not much rain out of them really. The weather station in the yard says .13 most days we get rain out of the storms.

I guess the carrots will fall victim to chippies but the hot peppers are doing very well...we have a raised deck on the 2nd floor and the potted plants are up there and seem to keep the varmints away. But the raised bed (carrots, green beans, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe, and corn) seem to be doing good growth wise. At least the chipmunks eat good here in SC!

I always enjoy the weekly gardening thread...folks are kind and informative. Thanks to all who post and advice the ones of us who lack much experience!

I am sorry, but I have had no experience with chippies, so I hope someone else has some good advice for you.

I am going to plant some lettuce close to a tree where it will get shade all afternoon, and the house will give shade from the morning sun.

Tried it last year in the summer and it worked. I used black seeded simpson lettuce which is supposed to be heat tolerant.