Yesterday set a record high in our area, with an official high temperature of 119 in Glendale. One of our backyard thermometers read 123 in the shade at one point in the afternoon, and one placed on a slate patio table in the sun reached 149 degrees. Today is supposed to be even hotter.
So far, our newly planted sweet potato slips have survived. Each slip is planted under a drip emitter and heavily mulched. The drip comes on every three days for an hour to encourage deep rooting, but I have also been giving them supplemental water twice a day by running a hose sprinkler for 5 minutes at a time.
I left the potato that produced these slips in water, and it produced more shoots! So I will be repeating this process in a different location in a few days.
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