Garden updates.....let's hear yours!

[silkiechicken]

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No Fair! But I guess the price of a short season is consistent cool weather. It does the Seattle drizzle about 200-250 days of the year and can go from sun to clouds in the duration of a shower.

Lately its been really warm though. Like in the upper 70's! *waits for the laughter* People can be seen is shorts as soon as the weather hits 60 around here so upper 70's is hot. One year in the 90's we reached 100 degrees 3 days in a row and it was front page news in huge bold letters all three days! I think it was 103 high.

 

[PlumTuckered]

We've been eating squash for a few weeks now, and eating corn on the cob the last week and a bit. Watermelon is coming along but I'm having to water them, it's been too dry here. Our maters are coming along as well. I only put four eggplants in the ground and have two eggplants about the size of a baseball. All of my poor strawberry plants are burning up no matter what I do :-(

Michelle

 

[Judymae]

We have gotten way too much rain. I can't get out to weed. The things I've planted are being covered by tall thick weeds. It stopped raining for 2 whole days. On the 2nd day I picked a huge bowl of bush beans, 16 yellow squash, 8 tomatoes, and 4 smaller bell peppers. The okra is just now forming. The cucumbers all died but one vine and I've only gotten one off of it. The pumpkins are taking over my whole yard! One huge pumpkin on it about the size of a bowling ball! My carrots just don't seem to be growing. They look like orange toothpicks! My onions didn't make it. With all the rain they just didn't do very well.

I don't even want to pick the weeds now. They have taken over. I think I'll just get what I can from the garden and wait until I need to plant for fall. I want to do garlic. Has anyone ever done garlic before?

 

[poppycat]

Ugh I'm turning green with envy reading this thread. Picking cucumbers, squash, tomatoes!!! LUCKY!

This morning I put on a sweater and never took it off, and my garden looks like it could use a sweater too. We have gotten some good sugar snaps, TONS of lettuce, rhubarb, swiss chard, fava beans and herbs is about all thats going on now. And my chickens decided to peck holes in all the little cukes that are on the vine.

 

[mamaboyd]

Lots of weeds here, we are going through a dry spell. Tomatoes are slowly growing, but not much else

 

[MissPrissy]

Here is my first cabbage from the garden this week - and my 2 youngest (9yrs and 17 months) for size comparison.

 

[Lunachick]

Holy crapola! That's some cabbage. cute kids too.

 

[Country Gal]

My garden is doing well this year! I'm very excited... everything is growing, the weeds are pretty much non existent...

If everything finishes out well this year, I will definitely be making my garden much bigger next year!

I planted some hanging strawberry baskets, which are already starting to produce berries... I think a berry patch is in the plans for next year as well.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

My garden UGH I started my plants three months ago transplanted them into a newly turned and fertilized (chickenpoop) garden. Stated growing like crazy then BAAAM bunnies came in and fate everything except the squash. Put up netting around the garden and started the plants again. BAMM Moles came in and ate everything except the squash I just gave up if the wildlife want it they can have it I'll keep working with the squash but its so dry here its hard to keep it going Between the bunnies, moles and lastly deer jumping the fence I give up So jealousof all your good luck I think I'll wait and try a fall garden maybe that will work if I can figure out how to keep the wildlife at bay. Micki

 

[hencackle]

My garden is struggling to survive the drought...even the green walnuts are dropping off the black walnut tree. I waited a month to cut my grass! The other day I told DH that I'm ordering the drip irrigation set-up for the garden next year. But for now, I'm dragging the hosepipe around and replanting where stuff died and trying to keep up hope.
Stephanie