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What a difference a year can make! I was listening to the radio while working in the field this past Friday and the announcer mentioned that last year on that date, we experienced a record high temperature of 97 degrees. This was followed by about nine days of above 90-degree weather and a pretty extensive drought. I remember this time very well. We waited as long as we could to put transplants into the ground, knowing that they would struggle in the heat, and when we could no longer hold off (seedlings really don’t like being in pots for too long), they really struggled. The potato and cucumber beetles showed up en masse to attack the stressed plants and we spent hours each day watering and rigging up little shade covers to help provide the seedlings with some relief. We definitely had some yield losses last year, and I am not anxious to repeat the summer of 2021 anytime soon.