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Our raised garden bed went in late this year. I have nice plants that are up and growing but I fertilized when I planted.
I am trying "Hydroponic Tomatoes" this year. They are grown in a Rubbermaid container...the plants are getting HUGE. A friend got 27 quarts of tomatoes from 4 plants last year.. Wish me luck...the raccoons cannot get to these tomatoes but chipmunks will be munching and I will be starting my "chipmunk relocation program" soon. Hoping to get more than 7 cherry tomatoes/day from my hanging tomatoes.. I do water from my rain barrel quite often. I try hard to be "Mother Earth." |
Western Colorado is semi-arid, so I plan accordingly, but this year has been weird. We had a very late frost/cold snap that did in my apple, peach, and pie cherries, after they bloomed heavily. Then we had much more rain than usual so there was some hope only to be followed by hot, dry winds that lasted for days, with gusts up to 55mph.
It is not looking promising. |
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
I tell you..if we had to actually LIVE off what we grow, we would be starving this year...
first came the late winter(in March/April) and now it is the August heat in May/June...we have been over 100 for most of 3 weeks now..and NOTHING is growing.. I have pepper plants that should be 3' tall and loaded with peppers that are only 6" tall and barren..... the tomatoes make blooms, that wither and die two days later...NO zuchini, either...I am heart broken..it is a lot of painful work for me to put in the garden each year and when this happens it is twice the pain.... wondering how others are fairing this year with all of the really wacky weather across the country.... willing to trade fabric for a bushel of picking cukes...sigh.... |
I just blanched and froze some okra today. We have tomatoes, gr pepper, okra, gr beans, watermelon, radishes and I don't know what else.
The credit goes to my son and DH. I'm not a gardner. |
Under Water!!!!!
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No garden but am paying the prices for the weather beaten plants....
at the supermarket.... |
My growing season is way to short to grow anything but weeds.
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Originally Posted by Connie in CO
My growing season is way to short to grow anything but weeds.
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Our farmers, here in NW Ohio, finally got their corn planted...and no way is it going to be 'knee high by the 4th of July'.....it's just barely ankle high. So sad.
Janet in Ohio |
Connie in Co... love your Alaska gardens.....
I guess anything goes if you really are a gardener |
Not much growing here either. rain and below 70 weather
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same here in CA(just outside of Yosemite north..)What the weather doesn't destroy the deer get, but I guess they have to eat too.......
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Originally Posted by BEvora
same here in CA(just outside of Yosemite north..)What the weather doesn't destroy the deer get, but I guess they have to eat too.......
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My jaw is dropping reading that some of you have ripe or almost ripe tomatoes already. We don't get those till end of August! And we haven't had much heat so far - mostly rain, rain and more rain. But it's the flooded out farmers that have my sympathy. Not great news from this province.
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I have three tomatoe plants, in pots on the patio. The roma plant has two blooms on it and has more than doubled in size since I planted it about 2 weeks ago. The other two were really small when I planted them but have grown quite a bit. They are progressing. That is all that is in my makeshift garden.
I don't garden because I have black thumb with most things. |
My garden seems to be in a state of near suspended animation. It's only been in the mid 60's for a couple of weeks, so the sprouted pole beans, zucchini and tomato plants are just standing, waiting for heat. We've had round after round of torrential downpours all day today. Water is now standing in the gardens. Fortunately, we have a very sandy subsoil, so it drains pretty quickly.
Wish that I could send some of this rain to areas that need it so desperately! Sue |
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