Garden how is yours doing??

old · Jul 15, 2010

This year with all the pop up showers and it being so humid my garden doesn't seem to be doing well. Squash plants are dieing off as is my cucumber and pumpkins and tomato's . Every morning when I get up to let the chicken out the grass is soaking wet and so is every thing in the garden and that in turn seems to cause the plants to get steamed from it being so hot out. Also seem like if a person goes out to do any thing they go into a steam bath or sauna which sure does make it bad. Heat index yesterday was out 110 and humity was over 75%

Keith Molden · Jul 15, 2010

Same with me here in S.E. Ohio. Cukes, squash & tomatoes are being scalded. Don't know of anything we can do about it tho. I guess we can always look forward to next year LOL. Keith

Inno · Jul 15, 2010

Ours is doing amazingly well. We have had a very wet summer, every 2-3 days we have been getting huge downpours and in between it's nice and sunny and hot. It was planted early and we had lots of lettuce about a month ago but it's starting to die off. The peas have been doing great although they sit in a low section and the plants are starting to die off probably due to excessive moisture. My wife thinks she will re-plant some of them. Actually all our neighbors (seasoned gardeners) are amazed with how well ours is doing. It's only the second year we've had it there and we added more black earth and manure to it this year. Lots of weeds though but she's right on top of it.

glennster · Jul 15, 2010

weeds are doing great!!!, onions and leeks and potatoes are doing well. tomatoes are not worth a dang. pumpkins seem ok so far. sweet corn is ripe, picked some sunday.

old · Jul 15, 2010

LOL well at least I did get a few pints of pickles made and plan to try to replant some cucumbers and squash to see if they at least make something. Now the Tomatillios are doing well and I did can some Salsa using them which turned out good. And my green beans seem to be doing well I pick about a gal. of them every day now and been giving them away left and right

Chuck MA · Jul 15, 2010

Old up here in Central MA our gardens are doing great, although we have had two weeks of extreme heat 90+ and extremely humid, with a little watering and ton of weeding it looks like one the best years we have ever had. Summer squash zukes and cucumbers all producing well, beans got a little set back with the deer using them and the maters as a buffet, but we finally got control of that problem as well as the woodchucks so far killed seven of them still one more out there not for long though. Should be picking beans in a day or two and the corn is definitely the best year as far growth, wont be ready for three weeks, which is still early here. I hope your turns around soon good luck
Chuck

HughB · Jul 15, 2010

Doing really well. Canned 45 qts of pickles. Dill and bread and butter. 6 qts green tomato relish and the same of sweet pickle relish. 12 qts so far of ripe tomatos. Expecting a lot more tomatos to come. planted "better boy" tomatos and have had the best crop in the last four years. Blanched and froze the sweet corn crop. Squash all broke off in a wind storm. Beans not doing so well. Convinced my wife this morning that we should pull the cucumbers up. Every two days here comes another bunch of them. We have been really lucky on the rain this year.

john in la · Jul 15, 2010

Sounds like a normal day for us.
Our garden has been history for a few weeks now but that is also normal.
Still plenty of gardening going on though because it is time for us to plant our fall garden.
Things we can plant on 7/15 but we should wait till 8/1 for some of the cool weather crops.
Broccoli (Seed)
Brussels Sprouts (Seed)
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Chinese Cabbage
Cucumbers
Pepper, Bell (Plants)
Rutabagas
Shallots
Tomatoes (Plant)

Heat Houser · Jul 15, 2010

The weeds are doing excellently.

Errin OH · Jul 15, 2010

Growing like gang busters. Its a shame I have to pull it all out to see the veggy plants. Grass has been so bad this year it seems like when I get done its an inch tall where I started.

Corn made knee high but it spotty. Mabey a third didn't even sprout. I guessing soil contact? It was a tad lumpy when planted. The vine plants that took are doing good but there again about a third just died off. They where transplants. Tomatoes, transplants as well, are doing ok but slow, most did survive. Potatoes are up and need hilled. Not impressed with beans and peppers but they should come along.

johnlobb · Jul 15, 2010

This is by far the best garden we have ever had at this location! Tomatos are giant as are summer and zucchini squash and yellow and green beans. Strawberries are expanding but not producing many berries.

DaveK(IN) · Jul 15, 2010

Here in central Indiana we had rain almost every day for a month and I think it messed up the garden. My second planting of green beans came on the same time as the first which was 30 days earlier since it was too wet to plant again sooner. Cukes, watermelons, squash are all damping off and dying. Peppers are about 1 foot tall with fruit the size of golf balls.
Good thing there is next year.

Keith Molden · Jul 15, 2010

Know what ya mean about giving away. We give most of ours away. Wife says she's getting too old to work 8 hours a day & come home & can. Told her to forget the canning, someone has to support my tractor habit, so keep on working. ( Of course I told her that when she wasn't around to hear it LOL.) Keith

redtom · Jul 15, 2010

Here in central MI my garden is finally filling out. Pickles, squash, melons full of blossoms but you know what?? Nearly No fruit!! Why? No bees! Last year saw lots of other bees--bumble a blacl etc. But none of those this year. The crisis of "colony collapse" is taking its toll on our pollinators. They said it wouls show up as fewer and smaller friuts ang vegs and they were right. For years my dad raised bees next door and we had the best garden around. Age and col collapse stopped him and it shows in poor harvests.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 15, 2010

Old, sounds like you have been in my garden. I have a crop of weeds like never before. How much they gettin for pig weed at the market?

Fergienewbee · Jul 15, 2010

So far, we've put up 60 pints of beans, 24 pints of bread-and-butter pickles, and had beans for a few meals. I plan to pick them one more time, and then replant "Jade" just to see how they do. Tomatoes are starting to color and I picked my first cuke today, with a few more almost ready. Potatoes are dying back. I never saw a potato bug all summer. Squash are running all over. Watermellons too. Haven't seen any mellons yet, but lots of blossoms. I have a lot of mullein beside the garden so I hope the bees will do some work in the mellons. First sweetcorn patch is setting silk and a few ears forming. Patch two isn't too far behind and patch three is on track.

This is the first time I've tried onions, so I'm looking forward to a harvest. I plan to plant beets and snow peas in a week or two. Grass is especially annoying this year. Seems to just crop up, even though I mulched. Even at that, the best garden I've ever had. I'm in SW Michigan.

Larry

Anonymous-0 · Jul 15, 2010

Considering we have had little or no rain in the last 5 weeks, it is doing ok. Wife has been watering every other day for the last month. Wish the good Lord would give us a nice week long soaking. When strawberry season was in we had loads of rain. We put over 50 qts in the freezer. Have had no rain since.

tjdub · Jul 15, 2010

All the rain and heat is providing perfect blight conditions for my poor tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. There's blight fungus growing right on the soil let alone the plant leaves. They sure appreciated the irrigation earlier on though.

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Briar Hill Brittanys · Jul 15, 2010

Everything planted April 16. Canned 35 qts froze 28 qts green beans. Snow peas did OK, broccoli, cauliflower and red cabbage wormy but finally matured alright. Chard and spinach grew poorly then bolted to seed. First tomato last Saturday, mmmmmm mmmmm, mortgage lifter variety, brandywines are coming on strong, the hillbillys are a little slower but loaded with fruit and about 6 1/2 ft tall. Five dozen ears of peaches and cream in the freezer today, just starting to get enough cukes to make pickles, bread and butter and dill. Getting enough okra and straight neck squash to eat almost every day and give to folks at church. Yukon golds look like they're dying back, whites aren't far behind, and the reds are still flowering. Next year should be the year the asparagus and thornless blackberries make. Had about 2 gallons of strawberries, wife and daughter ate them about as fast as they could pick them. Did I say how good that first tomato was? Oh man it was goooood! Mark

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