It's back to winter here. 60 today with lows in 40s.
Nothing is going to grow like this. It won't die, but won't grow either.
Bring back the heat and take away some of the rain. I haven't been able to stake beans or the pitiful 8 tomato plants.
What have you done for garden prep so far?
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It's back to winter here. 60 today with lows in 40s.
Nothing is going to grow like this. It won't die, but won't grow either.
Bring back the heat and take away some of the rain. I haven't been able to stake beans or the pitiful 8 tomato plants.
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We where 73 today but rain for the remainder of this week and next week.
Arcticdude
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They're calling for snow next week at our place.
Danil54grl
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And for the next 15 years or so.
I love my asparagus.We are quite exposed to the wind here and every winter a panel of the greenhouse roof gets blown off. It is very old and could do with knocking down. Every year I end up doing a quick patch up job. I would love to get a new one up but there isn't enough time this year.
Brent S
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I managed to get some weeding in the greenhouse and garden done today. That’s about it. I got an emergency call in the middle of the night that we all responded to so didn’t get much sleep. Have napped and eaten in bed all day otherwise.
Danil54grl
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This morning I tilled. . . Most of my corn didn't come up. Hunny says it was because they were old seeds. . . I just got them last year so was expecting at least a 90-95% germination rate. Who knows what happened this year.
Danil54grl
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Yesterday I cut out all the yellow from my squash. Its been very wet and I did end up losing one of my Jalapenos. . . looks like maybe a second. With all the yellow squash and zucchini, I ended up slicing some yellow for the freeze drier, mainly gave away 1/2 of them to family and then sauteed 1 yellow and a zucchini then made zucchini bunt cake sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Brent S
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My squash and zucchini’s aren’t flowering yet, but are looking a bit haggard allready. Hopefully I will get something from them this year. Finally have some tomato blooms! I bought two red tomatoes from the store that looked good but had zero taste.... I did see some decent sized broccoli heads on the plants in the greenhouse yesterday, but no cauliflower yet. I noticed a lot of small holes being eaten in many of the plants leaves. I’m deciding if I’m going to spray anything or not. Will probably just let nature take its course as I don’t like using pesticides on things I eat.
Brent S
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I’m having squash, tomatoes and cukes rotting on the vines right now. Just producing more than I can keep up with. I’m just not energetic enough to can much this year. Really should do some tomatoes at least, but too many projects going on. I did weed the greenhouse yesterday. I planted green beans in there. Hope to have enough to make a big pot this weekend. The main garden is starting to look like a jungle, I really need time to weed it again.
Broccoli gets worms very easily. I can't grow them.
I'm giving away lots of squash and zucchini. My neighbors are elderly and appreciate them. I'm getting 4 boxes of tomatoes next Wednesday to can.
Brent S
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I try to not use any pesticides but a light dusting of seven dust when you see something like the worms will usually get rid of mine in one application. I got a decent amount of broccoli early this season and may plant a few more for the fall. I’ve never gotten cauliflower to produce yet. Nice looking plants but no heads to eat.
The Japanese Beetles have made lace out of my bean leaves. I can't use any pesticides because of The bees and chickens. Hopefully the rain was so hard, it drowned a few
The Corps of Engineers came to and pushed down a few trees and made it where I actually have sun on my entire garden. Last year, the rain made the trees grow like crazy and the were shading about 1/4 of the garden.
Brent S
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I braved the jungle of the garden tonight and picked onions, cucumbers, banana peppers and cherry tomatoes for a salad tonight. I also got two cantaloupes and cut them up to chill in the fridge. Saw several watermelons and honeydews that looked ready too. I picked two yellow squash for frying with some potatoes in the morning too.
Sounds like your garden is doing good. I'm surprised mine has dried so much after having 7+ inches.
I have a watermelon about the size of an inflated golf ball.
Hopefully since they droppe so many trees today, I may finally breathe some life into my tomatoes. Some are still very young.
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Well, the weather was wrong again. They said no rain for 10 days and we had .6 last night and a storm and are expecting more today.
It seems that the old timers that had a touch of bursitis were better at predictions than the new tech they have today.
It seems that the old timers that had a touch of bursitis were better at predictions than the new tech they have today.
