Hot here in western Washington, lots of watering. Tomatoes, beans and corn doing well. We have 14 hanging flower baskets on our pergola an while wetting them down this morning I look up to see a blacktail doe and her spotted fawn sneaking by 40 feet from me. I have to soak in sights like that to distract me from the destruction being done to our nation. Otherwise I might do something regrettable.
Didn’t realize it was harvest. Been picking cukes consistently for the past three weeks. Woke up the other morning and all my cuke plants are dead, still with cukes on them.
Both purple and white eggplant plants each produced 1 count them 1 fist size eggplant. Tomatoes got 5 and then the plants stopped producing. Pulled up my pepper plants yesterday. They didn’t produce anything.
On a good note, it is more than I have harvested in the three years I been doing this. Also on a good note, all the rain could have played a role in the bad harvest. Finally on a good note, vegetables grew so my soil seems ok. On a bad node, it’s frustrating as heck, especially since my garden is my relaxation.
Prayers up.
I know what you mean. I just avoid the news channels except for occasional local new and/or weather. Try to spend the time doing garden stuff or house stuff or reading and a few TV programs, like Blue Bloods.
What can I say about central Texas? It is HOT and it is HUMID. My tomatoes and cukes did well, there are still some tomatoes on the vine, but they are small and green. Don’t have much taste. Did make a lot of tomato sauce when they were nice, big and red. The cukes made a lot of friends, as did the cantaloupe. I’m not a canner, but I can freeze just about anything. We’re tearing everything out of the gardens, composting it and getting the gardens ready for fall and winder produce. We’ll wait until September to put things in the soil. I’m putting in a 1.5’ h x 1.5’. w x 20’
long. It’s for flowers, in ground veggies and herbs.