The garden is taking a beating in all of this heat. Thrips, aphids, mealy bugs, leaf-footed bugs (a member of the stink bug family) are all appearing. I'm getting up early to apply dry molasses and corn gluten meal dry under everything, then do a foliar feeding with some other good stuff, to be followed by heavily watering in the fertilizer. The pests are arriving because the plants are stressed. If I can't make the heat go away I can at least give the plants more energy to grow with.

SRS