Lol I live in Texas. This is the time of year I let stuff die because I hate to be outside long enough to give them enough water. Soon we will be restricted from too much watering due to dought anyhow.

That said, my tomato plant that grew out of my compost is still making tomatoes even though it’s like 20 degrees too hot, and if I were growing peppers this year (which I am not) they would keep producing as long as I keep them wet. I grew a magnificent pepper forrest during the pandemic and just let it all die after I got my first COVID vaccine. Some of them even survived the 2021 snowpocalypse, but I had better things to do.

I don’t know about the South, but here on the west coast we have a pretty hot peak summer which isn’t very productive and I’ve lost a lot of plants to it, both edibles and ornamentals. I try to get a growing season in before it peaks, and then another one in during our long autumn. It’ll be lovely here until late November. But right now I’m entering that sort of dead zone where the sun just blasts anything vulnerable and it’s no fun being outside.

Mountain west and it went from a mild spring to scorching summer very quick. I put a drip line in this year which is working fantastically. I was only watering once a week and thought it was adequate even in the heat, but I was wrong. Lost my zucchini last week. Started watering a bit more to make sure I don’t loose anything else.

My tomatoes are loving it. They seem to be doing great.