R.I.P

My parsley has curled up it's toes and become a victim of this heatwave. :( When it cools down I will plant some more.

We've been able to keep the soil wet for most of the garden but the ongoing heat seems to have just sucked the life out of most of the garden.

The pumpkins that held such promise just weeks ago are just slowly dying. I'm not sure if they'll bounce back again. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

We've had something like 10 days straight of over 40C temperatures and it looks like we'll have at least another week of it.

Fortunately the corn was finished and the tomatoes nearing their end anyway. The damage could have been a lot worse had this heatwave hit us a month earlier.

We're going to look at erected some kind of structure to enable us to shade the plants on hot days. It's all a bit "one step at a time" for us right now though.

Anyone else suffering losses from the heatwave or have any pearls of wisdom to share on beating the heat when it comes to plants?