2025 - How's your weather today?

Very dry here too, water butts are getting low after being filled to the brim by the rain a few weeks ago. It's supposed to cool down a bit starting tomorrow, apparently we're getting a low of 4 degrees on Sunday.

Agreed, I put tomatoes out to bask in the sun, the gh was too hot. I can't see me doing that next week. The weather lady here said she didn't see any significant rain during all of May

I've had my tomatoes in the greenhouse all day and night for the past week. They'll be coming back into the house until lows get back up to 10 C, though. 

Hot and dry springs seem to be more common now. It's one reason I've started using more wicking and Kratky hydroponics containers instead of normal pots, since they are more water efficient.

Mulching the plastic raised beds is paramount otherwise the soil around the edges shrinks away from the plastic leaving a gap, like in a pot, and the soil surface crusts over. The benefit of the black/dark green plastic is that the soil warms up earlier, but in hot weather it bakes into a brick that water just runs off.