I got my garden in late for our area but it still hasn't preformed well for the most part. But I plant fall and winter crops usually, too.
Gardening 2023
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rainingcatzanddogs
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Some fruit and nut trees are naturally cyclical. They produce a good crop only every other year. In the off years, they only produce a few. You can force a crop with fertilizers. Think of it in human terms, a woman who is pregnant every year will have health effects.
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rainingcatzanddogs
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Our last frost is the second week in March. Depending on what zone you are in, early or late will differ. Here because we are considered a semi-arid desert, you usually want your crops harvested by July at the latest due to excessive heat and lack of rainfall (barring a stray TD or hurricane). Take a break on in ground planting until September, then get a fall crop in for harvest around the beginning of December. Break again, then get some early hardy stuff in in February for an April harvest.
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My garden has not done well. It did ok early on, then the drought hit and most everything stayed green with watering, but no more flowers producing anything. Only exception is my various peppers.
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I can agree with you.
Always had some citrus, fertilized for couple years, last year oversized bumper crop.
Plum didn’t start producing till we trimmed it back to shape it. Darn, those plums were good.
Ornamental plum, nothing. Dont really care but unusual. Don’t need the dogs eating them.
Apples have been growing bigger than large crab apple size, some even turning somewhat red. Not an apple I recognize from NYS. But one one turning semi red was semi sweet. Very tough in this climate for apples.
Still think its a German Crab apple type. Original owner was from Gemany, house and barn have an Alpine/Alsace finish on them.
Have a friend who ran local nursery, I am going to bring him down to take a look at for advice. He has lived up here 50 years and I am the only one who has these type of trees that are 50yrs old.
Processing these cherry type tomatoes takes forever. If I wasn't in the house because of the heat, I probably wouldn't mess with them. 2.5 quarts for 2 hours work. But then again, I'm not going to get many large red ones.
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Got my Buddy down today. Made him think about his nursery days (He used to distribute to the whole west coast).
He evaluated each of my fruit trees and came to the conclusion- they were weather steressed, because of that they are subseptable to insect damage. And I have signs of both. Weather may have contributed to no blossoms.
3 hours of my life, but I learned a lot and he felt useful helping me. Poor guy is so frail, another fall is going to do him in.
He evaluated each of my fruit trees and came to the conclusion- they were weather steressed, because of that they are subseptable to insect damage. And I have signs of both. Weather may have contributed to no blossoms.
3 hours of my life, but I learned a lot and he felt useful helping me. Poor guy is so frail, another fall is going to do him in.
Glad to hear you got anything...our cherry tomatos did nothing this year. Thank God the meat tomatos came thru tho. We have canned about 7 quarts so far and have enough left for at least another 10 quarts...
I'm used to Canning about 50 to 60 quarts of tomatoes. Of course, I had to buy these to can, but still, I had them.
My cherry tomatoes produced very little. The beef steaks are doing well in the greenhouse though. Have a ton of new ones on them now.
My cherry tomatoes are yellow and they are always proliffic. I put them in a gallon bag and freeze until I have a couple of quarts. The started with a love offering from a bird and now I have about 20 or 30 come up every spring. I give the seedlings away and still have tons.
My red large ones are struggling.
My red large ones are struggling.
I decided to go to gardens about 4, but it is 99 with a 109 index. I think I will. Wait. The water will steam the plants at this temp.
Cleaned the chicken house after my 6am walk. Then went to the car wash when they opened around 8ish. Came home and spent a few hours in the greenhouse. It got to 87 here today. Was supposed to be in the 90s. Guess I should be glad, eh?
Very small chance of rain starting Saturday. I'll take it.
I had loads of several varieties and sizes of tomatoes this year from cherry to beefsteak, plus I bought 50 lb. Of roma tomatoes to can on top of canning from garden..(made regular tomatoe sauce, and spaghetti sauce)..not sure how many total qrts and pints I got, but was quite a bit.
Nothing else did much good Other than what we call enough for a "mess" or two, here n there. For now, my garden is bare and I think I'll wait another week or two to plant anything else. Just too hot! I also had tons of green grapes coming on vines, was exciting to wait to ripen, and now all of them are gone! Dang squirrels or coons, don't know, got em! I'm really ticked about that.
Nothing else did much good Other than what we call enough for a "mess" or two, here n there. For now, my garden is bare and I think I'll wait another week or two to plant anything else. Just too hot! I also had tons of green grapes coming on vines, was exciting to wait to ripen, and now all of them are gone! Dang squirrels or coons, don't know, got em! I'm really ticked about that.
Picked the last of my beans today. I canned 3 quarts. Not much, but I'll take it. Had a lot of seeds for next year. I didn't pull the plants because I read to leave the roots in place and they add nitrogen to soil over the winter.
It is always sad to see all of my hard work turn brown and crunchy.
It is always sad to see all of my hard work turn brown and crunchy.
We missed any good rain and now there is none expected for at least 5 days.
One of my raised beds kicked the bucket while I was up at BOL2. Everything died. Bed next to it is fine.
That's about all I got this year too Robinjo.
That was yesterday only. In all, I got probably 40+ pints and quarts. Since I haven't touched last year's, I'm okay.
