Posted on 06/26/2021 6:58:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Oh my goodness! Sorry you had way too much rain.
It’s been a rough last few days for sure, but I don’t have it bad compared to the river bottom farmers.
I was fortunate to get my hay baled in between rains last week.
There are thousands of acres of corn and soybeans under water now, and more rain is on the way.
Ugh!
Good morning to you as well. Not much happening here. Pansies continue to bloom in abundance. However, this week’s heat wave will probably put a damper on their growth. Things are growing awfully slow this year and not sure why. The tomato plants are still tiny and puny, caladiums never sent up growth, the tuberous begonias which I recently planted appear to be not thriving. This is just depressing!
Heaven.............
Are you having more rain than normal? That would cause problems for the plants you listed.
My Grandfather had a Mulberry tree... in his driveway LOL!
From what I can learn about my fruitless plum tree it is in a frost “hole”. Bad judfgement on my part.
With the heat wave will remind the newbies...
“High temperatures cause a range of problems in most types of hybrid and heirloom tomatoes, with blossom drop ranking chief among these disorders. Blossom drop usually occurs when daytime temps are above 85 degrees Fahrenheit and nighttime temperatures exceed 72 degrees.”
Sorry for what its done to the garden. Its like living in Seattle up here in the KC area.
This is turning out to not be a good year for a lot of folks. To wet, too hot. Will probably affect things like wheat and corn.
Hope when the garden drys out you will find most things have survived!
It’s been brutal.
Rained all night again last night at my place.
glub glub...
Haralson apple. Tree is loaded, no disease issues so far!
Mount Royal Plum. Tree is loaded.
Tater Patch coming along just fine. Thinking about blooming!
Freshly weeded Sweet Corn Patch. 'Ambrosia' and 'Kandy Korn.'
Pumpkin & Winter Squash patch. Blooming and setting vines.
This whole area was SUPPOSED to be a Wildflower Garden. These are the survivors of numerous tillings, so they can stay. 🙂
Grape arbor is also loaded this season. Variety is 'Somerset' light red, seedless for jelly, juice and wine.
Porch Pots coming along well. LOVE the coleus color combo I found at Cushman's Greenhouses in Belmont. Coleus. Left: 'Main Street Wall Street,' Center: 'Main Street Broad Street' and Rear: 'Limon Blush.'
Something new for me this season, 'Malabar Spinach.' (Basela Rubra) Not a true spinach, but a plant with spinach-like leaves that climbs and can take the summer heat. Gets a neat cluster of red berries on it, too, also edible.
The two new raised beds that Beau & Mick made for me this season. Holding specialty tomatoes and Marigold and Zinnia for now; I will be planting garlic and spring bulbs for cutting, later this fall.
Volunteer Sunflower in the middle of the Kitchen Garden. I always let a few do their thing.
This spring we did and cooler temperatures than normal. And now we have this heatwave and little rain. It is so hot, I’m, not even putting the trash out, which is about 4 steps away from my front door!
Big temperature fluctuations WILL slow things down. And I know what you mean about the heat. If it’s not done before 9am at my house on summer mornings, it’s not getting done that day. ;)
A little late to reply but your raised beds are beautiful! So lush! Great job to your hubby and you!!
Just catching up. Thanks for the link! Very informative!
Beautiful photos!
Those apples will be great!
I have a few coleus too. I like them. ☺️
I am up near KC and in the last 5 days I can’t go out without it drizzling or sprinkling or outright pouring!
I’m on a hilltop. I can’t imagine what you are going through.
I will say that when I was 7 or 8 I would have loved playing in that stream of water running through your yard, but times change and playing outside like that is now just a memory.
Potatos! Article about!
History’s Greatest Potato Promoter Relied on Science and Stunts Before Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the French considered the tuber disgusting and poisonous.
More at link!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-potatoes-parmentier
Thank you for your kind words. This was my first experience at growing in raised beds so I did a lot of research first about the soil content. Then some advice from a local nursery about tweaking the soil mixture for our rainy mountain climate conditions so it would drain properly. The beds are high enough for me to sit on the edges, so we filled the bottom with small logs from the wood pile, topped with topsoil from a nearby cleared area, leaving about 20 inches empty at the top. In that 20 inches I used a mixture of one-forth good topsoil, one-forth composted bark, one-forth composted cow/chicken manure, and one forth vermiculite.
I’m really happy with the results. No matter how hard or long it rains, there is never any sitting water. And as long as there is rain at least every third day (and there always is) the soil stays damp enough.
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