[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Nice looking garden! And a cold frame too! A picture for a calendar! It reminds me of the gardening shed where I grew up.

The rain! Its like I live in Maine or the Olympic rain forest or something rather than along the Kansas/Missouri border. Its July, my lawn should have gone dormant and I should not have to mow! It was June and I was actually turning on the heat.

My garden is small and wet. Volunteer turnips. (Not really a favorite.) I have some tomatoes I’m growing in These big landscape fabric pots. I make cages out of fencing. I put them up on top of a tree stump. Its worked well. I really have not had problems with fungus or blacks spot. The plants are up off the ground and the lower leaves do not get splashed with mud and dirt. I have about 50 to 60 green tomatoes on 2 plants. I did not prune the suckers. If you do prune,you get tomatoes faster, if not, you get more tomatoes in the long run.

I was encouraged by the volunteer turnips to scratch some lines in the mud and plant some onions and beets. I really should not be planting beets in July, but the seeds were 2 years old and the weather is strange this year. They germinated; we will see. Still. Your garden looks great. I am envious! (Wish I lived out in the country.)

[tubebender]

We live on the California coast on the very southern edge of the Pacific North West. Average summer highs are in the high 60s and nights are low 60s with little or no rain but lots and lots of fall and winter rains. Mildew and aphids are a problem. We have been retired for many years

[Augie]

That little shed is over 100 years old. It was used as a smokehouse on my Grandparents' farm. I hired a guy to move it to my place a few months ago.

We had a family reunion yesterday, so I had to cram a whole weekend worth of work into Saturday. I'm not fully acclimated to the heat yet this summer and wound up over doing it a bit I think.

I got the tractor out and flipped the hay bale pile. With all of the rain we've had they are rotting down much faster than they would in a normal year.

I dug all of the garlic and one row of potatoes. This is the worst crop of fall-planted garlic I've ever had. Too much water, not enough sunshine. The heads are half the size or less compared to last year and the husks that normally cover the heads are rotted away completely. Aside from some damage the moles did this row of spuds was decent.