Posted on 06/03/2011 4:18:59 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Here in East Central Mississippi the heat has arrived. It was 101 yesterday and is expected to be in the high 90s and pushing 100 for the next week. A heat advisory is effect. My garden is surviving these hot afternoons. Some of my younger plants have needed watering every afternoon. My established tomato, squash and pepper plants have been doing well with a deep soaking of water about every three days. Looks like it is going to be a hot summer.
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Man, around here, we don’t plant summer crops till after Memorial Day. Good thing too, as it has been a damp, rainy spring.
I just planted corn, tomatoes and have some bush beans going nicely, but no where near producing anything.
Anyone have ideas on what grabs plants from the bottom and gobbles them down completely? My lettuce raised bed has gone from 15 plants to 10, with 5 holes in the ground. I’m thinking it might be a vole as we have a few mole tunnels in the yard, and from what I read they like to eat from the roots on up.
Sounds like Gophers to me...
My neighbor's large garden that he planted very early is still supplying all of us with green tomatos and some red ones. I have ate more fried green tomatos this year than ever before, and that is a good thing. He still has red potatos and green onions in abundance, but his squash and eggplants did not do well at all.
I always look forward to the new Friday threads... until I read about the bountiful harvests taking place elsewhere and then I go into a funk. Our temps are running a few degrees below our normal cool weather and we rarely see the sun. We have adapted to it but still would like it 10 degrees warmer...
Gophers will pull the plants down. Look and see if you have mounds several feet apart and get a gopher trap and stick it into one of the openings that is active.
We have been eating fresh veggies for several weeks. Much of my garden is drying out from the horrible heat.
I am in Connecticut, not exactly gopher country, but I suppose they might be around. And I’ve looked all around in the woods of my property and have seen nothing that looks like a gopher burrow.
How far do they travel? I’ve looked probably 200-300 feet from the garden plot.
I have mucho flowers on my Marion and Arkansas Tralver tomato plants (starts) and the paste tomatoes I started from seed are growing great just a few flowers on them though. My winter squash (from seed) are really doing well and flowering but no squash yet. My zukes are small but look healthy, no flowers yet and they have required watering almost every afternoon - roots are not deep enough yet.
I need to get out there this weekend and stake my tomatoes and put up some sort of trellis for the squash to climb.
Some humans not liking it either! Is summer over yet? lol
Sending you 20 degrees on the out going sled Monday. I could use the Mule Train but it is much, much slower.
Thanks for the tip. I have it up on a table (out of reach of the dog and wandering rabbits) on the front porch. I’ll keep a check on the moisture as the days get warmer. I figure it’s going to need daily watering and 2 x a day on really hot days.
That is important and valuable information. Thank you.
I’m guessing that much of the commercially sold manure may be from corn fed cattle because it would be easier to gather? (rather than running around a pasture and picking it up cow pie by cow pie.)
Had you said that to me earlier this week I would have gladly shipped you 10-15 degrees!!!!! Typical DelMarVa weather, 2 days of spring and then right into summer. Today at least the humidity has broken, even though we haven't had any rain, and it's in the low 80s instead of mid 90s as it was earlier in the week.
There are 55 states between your garden and my garden here in Benderville and it will take a few days to send you a family of Gophers so you can study them up close. Perhaps you have Voles or meece?
I came home from the store Wednesday morning and thought how pretty the front yard looked from the road with all the bright yellow flowers.
The only problem: They’re all dandelions :(
The mowers are all still on the fritz, so it looks like we’ll be borrowing the pastor mower again tomorrow. SIGH
Our humidity runs above 90% almost year round but we don’t the temps to make it the muggy type. Something about relative humidity which I don’t understand because I skipped class that day...
Yeah, I must have either missed it or slept through that class also!!!!
Help :(
Hard freeze last night. My potatos froze again. My Cold Set Tomatoes that can survive frosts froze, the pumpkins that were planted in tires and covered froze. The tomatoes in Wall of Waters seem okay. My spinach, radishes and carrots have been in the ground 4wks and still are only 1/2inch tall. It looks like the peas are okay but the asparagus that is above ground froze.
Any advice or suggestions on how to how to get a garden to survive in the abnormally cold weather and shortened growing season here in northern Nevada would be greatly appreciated. The garden is aprox. 30’ by 65’. I’ve ordered a wind barrier to put up around the garden and it should be here next week - we have had constant 25-30mph winds with gusts to 50mph for the past 3months.
I’m sorry this is so long but I’m at wits end. Twenty years of gardening here and this year I’m at a complete loss. I am blessed in that I haven’t had to deal with tornados or floods like the rest of the country so I feel like I’m whining but I really need to be able to raise enough to feed the family somehow.
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.
Help :(
Hard freeze last night. My potatos froze again. My Cold Set Tomatoes that can survive frosts froze, the pumpkins that were planted in tires and covered froze. The tomatoes in Wall of Waters seem okay. My spinach, radishes and carrots have been in the ground 4wks and still are only 1/2inch tall. It looks like the peas are okay but the asparagus that is above ground froze.
Any advice or suggestions on how to how to get a garden to survive in the abnormally cold weather and shortened growing season here in northern Nevada would be greatly appreciated. The garden is aprox. 30’ by 65’. I’ve ordered a wind barrier to put up around the garden and it should be here next week - we have had constant 25-30mph winds with gusts to 50mph for the past 3months.
I’m sorry this is so long but I’m at wits end. Twenty years of gardening here and this year I’m at a complete loss. I am blessed in that I haven’t had to deal with tornados or floods like the rest of the country so I feel like I’m whining but I really need to be able to raise enough to feed the family somehow.
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.
Oh, JOY....we have this golden ball in the sky this morning....I think it’s called the SUN! We in the Northwest were on the verge of breakdowns...it has been a LONG, GREY, WET, Winter.....very little spring...and 85 degrees and sunny again predicted for tomorrow here in western Oregon.
I try and eat ONLY grass fed....vs...grain fed beef....it is healthier...and my doc says I have cholesterol levels to die for (I eat a lot of meat). With grain, what KIND of grain? GMO grain? Heavily dosed with other things? Lots of questions.
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