Posted on 07/05/2019 3:24:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Don't worry. We're at that age where we're losing Parents/Steps and the odd elderly Auntie & Uncle every few months. As my Mom said, 'At least everyone is dying in order!'
I'll post some pictures of my garden this afternoon, so I'll have those for you in a bit. Some successes, some compromises, some surprises; all weather related this growing season. ;)
The roses are up in my locale (last week FWIW). It was interesting to see that as I had visited Virginia back in late May and they were a bit past peak (went to the botanical gardens in Richmond).
Here in southeastern Idaho we got a frost that totaled the green beans in my garden on the 20th of June. The sweet corn wasn’t up very high and survived. The peas, carrots, onions, lettuce, and spinach all weren’t fazed. Everything else I covered. Trouble is the last time I remember the weather doing this we got a killing frost around the 25th of August. Radishes are good and things are growing. I’ll be happy with that for now.
Glad you got to see some roses in bloom! Things in SE WI (Zone 4/5) are so out of whack, it’s crazy!
Just heard on the TV local news that this years national corn crop will be the lowest in 4 years.
Also, they remarked that other crops will not be in the same abundance as in previous years.(ie.: strawberries, certain fruits,etc.)
Gardening is a prudent practice for independent and self-sufficient lifestyle.
I have a SIL that was used to gardening in Wisconsin with me and she, too, moved to Idaho.
I lived on my little Farmette (1.2 acres!), and she lived in The City on an Isthmus between two lakes. She was consistently 2 weeks ahead of me on EVERYTHING and always rubbed it in; in our POLITE Midwestern way. ;)
Man, Idaho was a STEEP gardening Learning Curve for her when she moved to Idaho. I didn’t rub it in.
Well, not much. ;)
You’ve Been Added. :)
Tomorrow's breakfast, an "everything bagel" with an inch of vegetable cream cheese.
The bird netting and chicken wire have staved off the squirrels for the time being. We’re gathering 3 to five nice tomatoes every day.
Cucumbers are doing well. Lots of rain no doubt helped.
Lake of the O is still high and showing woody debris from Truman Lake.
More fireworks tonight.10
I love that! I don’t have a garden this year for the first in many years. I miss it so much! I am also an avid reader and always wanted space for a library.
Squish, squish; blub!
MAYBE, it will start to dry out Sunday, when temps are set to jump to 90, and bake the mud into bricks..
Lost total track, but between 3.5 & 4+ inches, so far this week. More in the next hour or so; some more bands overnight & tomorrow. SUPPOSEDLY, that is the last of it. The weeds & bugs love it. Local ranchers can’t make hay in it; and farmers are still stymied getting a viable crop going.
Some places west, north, and east of us got over 7” in just 1-2 days; roads, bridges, etc washed out, including in Sturgis. One small community has 4-7 feet of water flooding their access road.
SW South Dakota, zone 4; 5 in a good year; 3 in a bad one.
It’s primrose time!
And they are beautiful! :-)
Does anyone have a good and natural weed killing concoction recipe? I have dogs running around in my yard and do not want to use commercial weed killers.
We had the usual growing family Fourth of July cookout here on the Bender Planation yesterday. I grilled the normal hamburger, hot dogs and Oysters grown here on Humboldt Bay and Lady Bender and family brought the rest. Second 4th for our great granddaughter who is now 2 1/2...
Lady Bender’s sweet peas are headed to the moon
I am so happy with this years potato crop of Yukon Gold, Desiree and Corola …
I’ve read straight white vinegar will work for killing weeds.
This one would be good! (For lavender anyway!)
(To be clear...not my garden or house!)
Uncommon July weather on the Kansas Missouri Border. Heat, but also lot of rain. Blows up the radishes, but my grass garden is flourishing!
The spinach is gone, and the lettuce. I do have about 65 green tomatoes on 6 plants. The dill self sowed itself. I no longer have to plant it. Note: I have fewest aphids on the tomatoes when the dill grows next to the tomatoes. I am getting Royal Chanteray carrots (Short and stubby work well in the soil here.) , Cylindra beets too. Leeks and multiplier onions are doing well. Regular onions too. I am avoiding cole crops. Too hot, loopers get thim. Growing cilantro this year. With all the rain this is a good gardening year, even with the late spring.
Have been picking some blueberries, but I do not have enough room or bushes to get more than a handful. I planted 2 plum trees, which is a bit of a gamble. A little warm for them. If I can get them through the first year maybe they will do well.
Figs. Well. I will save that for later. Greeneyes before you went dark, you were writing that you were getting plums from Stark. bros. How did that go?
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