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.
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.
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?
Hailstorms came through Denver this past week, and shredded everything, stripped twigs and leaves from trees, and gave us enough hail that it froze some tender seedlings. Containers on the balcony that couldnt be moved didn’t get covered in time got blasted. Some hailstones were the size of quarters. :o((
Mostly warm and sunny here in Central Missouri over the past week. We did have a line of storms come through early last week that dumped a bunch more rain. It’s been nice not having to water the garden, but I can’t keep up with the weeds.
I need to harvest the garlic patch this week. If I can find it.
I had to spray the peach trees for japanese beetles last week. I was a few days late noticing the invasion so I lost some fruit. Normally they attack the contorted filbert before the peaches. This time they left the filbert alone. Anyway, 99% of them are dead now. I’m hoping I don’t have to spray again as the peaches are almost ready for harvest.
