The next sound you hear will be Mr Bender ending it all by leaping off the tailgate of his pickup! Along about Wednesday evening I start looking forward the new Friday thread and the banter that goes with it and then the very first posts are about harvesting this and picking that and waist high over there and I look out the window at mud and weeds. This has been the wettest late spring that I can remember in my 56 years of living and gardening on the shores of Humboldt Bay. We had 3X normal May rain and we are already double our total June average in the first 4 days. It’s even worse between Eureka and the Ore border and into Southern Oregon.
The potatoes, corn, raspberries and blueberries are doing great. We are cutting lettuce and replanted the radishes, dug 2 types of garlic and have 6 types left to dig. I raked the mulch off of half of them before the rain drove me into the house but I fear the wrappers will rot and shorten the storage life of them. The slugs are in paradise in my wife’s flower beds she got planted...
I’m north of you in Wash state, not too far from Tacoma, and I know what you mean. Driving me crazy that I can’t get out and plant! We did get a bit of a sunny day yesterday, so I got to do a little weeding. Couldn’t stand it earlier this week so went out and started potatoes in garbage bags in the rain! Got good and wet, but had to do something! Freakin weather!
California weather just blows that global warming theory right out of the sky, don’t it?
my raspberries seem to be very vigorous but that doesn't mean they'll produce...
so hang in there....we'll get our season yet....