Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

It was beautiful here yesterday! High 40s/low 50s in the morning and got up to 65. Today I woke up to 35⁰ and rain/snow mix. Bleh...

When do you generally get relatively stable springtime temps up there? May? June?

Cold weather crops can be planted the first of May. Plants that can't tolerate a freeze are usually okay by June 1 but I have had frost as late as the middle of June and as early as the 3rd week of August.

 

[fuzzi]

Cold weather crops can be planted the first of May. Plants that can't tolerate a freeze are usually okay by June 1 but I have had frost as late as the middle of June and as early as the 3rd week of August.

When we lived in the northeastern hills of Connecticut I couldn't plant tomatoes and peppers until June first. So I chose short maturation varieties like Early Girl.

 

[jxp]

Wouldn't you know they lowered Wednesday night to 39. Hopefully no lower or I will be covering my newly planted tomatoes.

A sure sign of the optimistic soul of a gardener - tomatoes and spring.

 

[jxp]

It was 15°F yesterday morning and is 17°F this morning. Not time to plant anything yet.

Looking at your amazing pictures on this thread, I believe you've found a way to contend with your challenging climate very nicely.

 

[jxp]

Cold weather crops can be planted the first of May. Plants that can't tolerate a freeze are usually okay by June 1 but I have had frost as late as the middle of June and as early as the 3rd week of August.

One year when we lived in Potsdam up near the St. Lawrence we had planned a swimming party for my young daughter's birthday in mid July. A light flurry of snow put the kibosh on those plans.

 

[R2elk]

When we lived in the northeastern hills of Connecticut I couldn't plant tomatoes and peppers until June first. So I chose short maturation varieties like Early Girl.

I grew Early Girl for awhile. IMO there are now much better short season varieties available.

The discontinued Northern Exposure is IMO the best, most disease resistant, short season tomato there is. I get up to 4" diameter tomatoes that don't crack and weigh up to 1 lb. from them.

This year I am trying Burpee's Groundswell which is claimed to be able to produce 2 1/2 lb. tomatoes in 70 days.

 

[R2elk]

One year when we lived in Potsdam up near the St. Lawrence we had planned a swimming party for my young daughter's birthday in mid July. A light flurry of snow put the kibosh on those plans.

I have been snowed on, on the 4th of July and had to wear a winter coat to Tensleep's 4th of July rodeo.

 

[R2elk]

Looking at your amazing pictures on this thread, I believe you've found a way to contend with your challenging climate very nicely.

 

[jxp]

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Very nice set up.

 

[jxp]

I have what to me is one of the most perfect roses there is. Zephirine Drouhin is nearly totally thornless, smells wonderful, grows in sun or shade, and has a huge flush of roses in the spring followed by sporadic blooms throughout the growing season. It can be grown as a climber or left to waterfall.
In the autumn I took some cuttings and (in my zone 7) merely pushed them in the garden soil then forgot about them all winter.
I brought 3 with me to NY where I put them in individual gallon pots a couple weeks ago. All 3 look like their buds are swelling and they'll be ready to take off when the weather up here warms up.
I can't wait to see where Brother puts them.