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90’s a few days ago, 40’s this morning. Sweet potatoes are not liking this at all...
I planted early this year - I had to travel to VA for the birth of my first grandchild. When I got home (after 6 weeks) the garden was growing well but covered (every square inch) in grass. After 6 days of work it is finally under control again. Am already eating green beans, peas and romaine.
Question, my potatoes have yellow leaves (the bottom tier) - too much water?
Could hit 100 today. My tomatoes, tabascos, habaneros and Bhut Jolokia are loving it.
You’re up bright and early!
Thanks for the thread and ping, Red. We had a frost advisory over the night. I don’t think it happened, thank goodness.
Thanks for the ping - I love the info on this thread.
After a very cool, wet spring and later plantings, heavy thunderstorms and then hot, dry days, it is lovely here in MD today - cool and sunny.
I grew most all of my tomatoes, peppers, etc from seed and in spite of everything my tomatoes are looking great. Have to water today. My lettuce, onions and radishes have tasted wonderful. I put my cool weather veggies in my raised beds, and I added some Miracle Grow soil and mushroom compost to the beds and they are doing well.
In my big garden, I have tomatoes, corn, zucchini, bush and pole beans, cukes, and I did plant some watermelon.
My melons just never seem to be very good. Any suggestions?
Anyone concerned about this new bacteria they think is from fresh vegetables? Three cases in the US now.
My garden does not like the upper 90 - 100 temps. All my squash plants are already dead. Tomatoes are doing OK, as are the peppers.
I’ll probably harvest all my onions this weekend. Most are baseball sized or larger. Cucumbers are still producing quite a few every day.
G’mornin’ All. Can’t believe it’s Friday already. I’m waiting for Time Warner to come install a wireless router at my house so that I can reach my computer with my lap top from downstairs. How lazy is that?
Yesterday I bought an already planted strawberry jar. Any tips from any of you on how to take care of it? It’s a big one with really healthy looking berries in it. Does it need full sun (like on my south facing front porch on brick pavers in front of a brick wall — hot), partial sun (back deck facing north — cooler), or??? Should I place it on the ground, or up on a table? What about out in my circle/fountain garden on a table or on the ground — full sun except for the late afternoon and the shade from the rose bushes (see my FR home page)?
All advice appreciated. It’s in a clay pot with the pockets on the side. It looks to be about a 2 gallon pot. I’m worried about it drying out when I’m not home, yet I want it to get enough sun.
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 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
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.
Just finished working compost into bed #2. Half of that will be for heirloom tomatoes. Beds 3 and 4 have winter wheat which I hope will be ready for harvest in a few weeks.
Hubby needs to finish beds 5 and 6. They will be mostly heirloom corn, beans, watermelon.
I still have lettuce, onions and spinach from the winter garden. Strawberries are still going strong, but not as many as earlier.
Have a great weekend. God Bless.
It’s a beautiful, balmy day in SoCal. I’m waiting to see how my flowers and shrubs respond to the new fertilizer I’m using. Two more weeks of school and then I’m free to enjoy the summer, my garden, and the daily glass of wine!
For the first time in many years I don’t have a dog and now the rabbits seem to have no fear and are eating my garden!
What can I do other than put up a fence? I really really don’t want to do that!!
Harvesting the lettuce now, since it will be in the 90s for at least a week, and it’s gonna bolt very soon. We love the buttercrunch I planted. So lots of lettuce salad. My broccoli is leafy and huge, but no heads yet. Peas are producing, but will be too hot for those, too. I hope my pods fill soon!
None of my tomatoes or peppers are in the garden yet. :( I guess it will be this week. They were just too darn small, and I didn’t get them transplanted to bigger pots soon enough. Oh well, I’ll start a month earlier next year. Still learning. :)
Ayiiii! Did what I figured it would: jumped from freeze to fry overnight.
Wednesday, the Pink Banana & Pattypan squash seedlings got planted, as well as a few peppers and tomatoes. While doing that, I found the 3 (so far) volunteer Cucurbita Unknownicus; missed Walla-Walla Sweet from last year; even MORE volunteer spinach; and some volunteer lettuce.
Thursday was a help-a-friend day, working on his deck project. Picked rhubarb to take to them befroe we left. We also stopped at the Post office to pick up our 3 new (potted) “Carmine Jewel” cherries; they’ll get planted tomorrow.
Friday was an out of town day, so not much garden stuff got done before it was time to leave.
Today, the irritation pump got connected to the garden’s irritation tank, and the first 450 gallons hauled & emptied into it; 40’ of pole beas got planted; and 47 quitagajillion weed sprouts got tilled under.
I also stopped counting when I reached 100 potatoes that have mamaged to finally break through; first hilling sometime next week.
Also next week, the cucumber seedlings will get set out, along with a few melons.
Mrs. A.R. has been madly drying oregano and scallions.
Chicks and rabbits are doing great. Apples are FINALLY blossoming.
We’ve had so much rain this year & last that our dry gully is again a slowly flowing stream, as it last was over 60 years ago. Last year, I had to break through the concrete floor & put a sump pump in the lower basement pump & tank room. It is now pumping out about 6-8 gallons/hour. Maybe it’s time to dig out the old well next to the ‘creek’.