Go Back  Quiltingboard Forums > General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
how is your garden growing???? >

how is your garden growing????

how is your garden growing????

Old 06-21-2011, 10:58 AM
  #31  
Senior Member
 
annyroony2's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 670
Default

Ask the deer, they are enjoying it, they are eating peas, snaps and all of our apples are gone from the trees, either the deer or squirrels got them.

Our corn looks good (so far). Would like to have some rain.
annyroony2 is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:04 PM
  #32  
Super Member
 
Nolee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chili, New York (Rochester)
Posts: 1,147
Default

Live in Rochester, NY. It is dry but I keep the plants watered and they are doing beautifully, lots of tiny peppers and tomato fruits. Pray yours will blossom soon too. It IS a lot of work for not being rewarded. :(
Nolee is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:06 PM
  #33  
Power Poster
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Whitewater, WI
Posts: 24,528
Default

Mines not looking real great either.....it was put in really late this year, because of cold weather.
CarrieAnne is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:30 PM
  #34  
Super Member
 
sylvia77's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Winston,GA
Posts: 1,821
Default

My garden is doing great. I have to water it every day or it would dry up and blow away!
sylvia77 is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:36 PM
  #35  
Super Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New York City/Manhattan
Posts: 1,316
Default

we water our garden with a timer so it gets watered each day. We only get to it, face-to-face if you will, on the weekends.
nycquilter is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:47 PM
  #36  
Super Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
Default

pretty much the same are your garden. We have tomatoes, but they are tiny, the peppers seem to like it hot as do the eggplants and melons. The green beans are dead, the squash is producing poorly. We water every other day and it helps some.
I've grown rather tired of the drought.
purplefiend is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 12:52 PM
  #37  
Super Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 5,397
Default

And yet the weeds survive; go figure. It's crazy the things that live no matter what mother nature does to it.
romanojg is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 02:59 PM
  #38  
Senior Member
 
Teresa 54's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 986
Default

happy with my garden,
Reading, PA
Teresa 54 is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 03:18 PM
  #39  
Senior Member
 
Kallen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Roseville, California
Posts: 450
Default

I only garden on a small scale. We planted 9 tomato plants, 3 cucumber, 3 green peppers, 1 zuchinni and 2 straight neck squash. It all went in on May 1st. By June 1st the squash were only as big as a dinner plate, and the cukes, and peppers had chewed up leaves. I wasn't sure if it was bugs or the hail storm. The tomato leaves were spotted with black and drying up. Thought it was maybe a fungus or too much cold and rain. I trimmed all the bad looking leaves, we did spray an insecticide (hate to do that) and put out snail bait. Everything is coming back and the squash grew gigantic in two weeks. We have small squash growing, a few tiny green cherry tomatoes, cucumbers are starting, and a couple of peppers too. Just hoping it continues to grow. It looks nice and healthy so I am keeping my fingers crossed. We also have a grow box full of strawberries, but don't get more than a handful every other day. I think they are overcrowded in the space we put them. I'm learning slowly..... :lol: I forgot to say, to everyone who is discouraged--keep trying. We'll just get better with practice, and we never know when the day will come that we will really need the food that we can grow and the skills we have developed, especially the things we have learned during the bad years.
Kallen is offline  
Old 06-21-2011, 03:22 PM
  #40  
Senior Member
 
Maybe1day's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Australia
Posts: 835
Default

Jacquie,
I feel your pain garden wise as last year our garden didn’t grow too well either. We coddled and nursed it along with an end result that we did manage to get something from it but it did take nearly all season. Nothing wanted to grow. We have been very dry over this side of the sea so nothing is a surprise really.
Our winter garden is in at the moment and so far so good, some things have powered along while others are slowly slowly so we shall see.
I suspect the Mother Nature hasn’t finished with us yet so more pain to come. I netted my garden beds which I have found made a huge difference as it has provided a lovely micro climate for the veggies seemingly protecting them from strong winds among other nasties’.
Maybe1day is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
tropit
Recipes
8
11-26-2019 01:03 PM
EllieGirl
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
12
10-22-2013 01:21 PM
Favorite Fabrics
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
65
06-16-2011 08:23 PM
sueisallaboutquilts
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
94
03-19-2011 04:41 PM
Quilt4u
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
5
04-30-2009 01:53 PM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


FREE Quilting Newsletter