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| CherryPie |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 09:09:22 AM
We've had a terribly wet and gray spring where I live and so far, summer isn't shaping up much better. My tomatoes are covered in black spots and wilting, my cherry tree is being devoured by little black bugs, my herbs never got going and I harvested one lone strawberry!
Anybody else want to commiserate about their gardens? 
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Jul 19 2010 : 07:06:32 AM
OK...update...my squash plants are all gone...Tomatoe plants are going crazy. I am going to TS to get taller stakes. Cucumbers and taking over the other half of the garden. I planted beans late and they are going good. I also planted some tomato plants late and they are about 3ft tall. I guess I will have tomatoes until frost. I know now that chicken poo and leaves are great fertilzer. And the heirloom seeds are great. Now how do I dry the seeds from the veggies???
Deborah
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
| supernaynay |
Posted - Jul 13 2010 : 12:25:41 PM
you are not alone - my peaches aren't even ripe yet, and usually i have harvested the entire tree by this time. i have so far harvested one tomato, all the leaves on my little zucchini plant have been munched off by something, i have a tiny green bell pepper, and a few flowers on my eggplants and tomatoes... even my corn is only about 1.5 feet tall :( although... it is getting warm, so hopefully everything will start to flourish over the next couple of weeks :)
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| Ingrid |
Posted - Jul 12 2010 : 07:18:59 AM
My beans and peas have not done well at all. My beans are only about 4 inches tall. I planted both of these at four different times. Frustrating. Cukes aren't growing either. Tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouses are doing good. Carrots worked and garlic worked. Squash is growing like gangbusters. Potato plants have grown well but no flowers yet and usually have been eating new potatoes already. Very strange year but will just work with what we get. Funny thing this year I tried artichoke for the first time and I already have six hearts growing.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 12 2010 : 04:46:19 AM
Roxie the heifer got in the big garden a few weeks ago. I got her out but the next day she was right back out there. So I let her have it. Goats too. The weeds were taller than them by then anyway. So everything's gone out there. Which is ok because it was looking like no one lived here. Very neglected for sure. But I still have my other garden. I'm getting tomatoes and squash, peppers. The checkens did find the better tomatoes though. I have seen pecks. Darn chickens. I will be home all day today so will be watching them.
It rained last night!!! Should get more the next few days. Yay!!! We needed it so bad.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| Room To Grow |
Posted - Jul 11 2010 : 6:57:41 PM
Now several of my tomato plants have blight...Not sure what to do...They have ALOT of tomotoes on them and I dont want to loose them...
Deborah
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
| quiltin mama |
Posted - Jul 06 2010 : 10:32:46 AM
Looks like just about everyone in the PNW is having trouble this year!! My garden is FINALLY coming around, and it's July 5th!! My poor pole beans have just started to climb....on July 5th. Ugh. The only things we've been able to harvest so far are spinach and raspberries. Our peas are doing great but they do fine in cool, damp weather! I do have tomatoes coming on and my cabbage and broccoli are surviving. The herbs though are another story.........
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| katmom |
Posted - Jul 04 2010 : 11:29:57 PM
hey Kim,
don't feel bad, I was begining to feel like I live on a totaly differnt planet...just 15 miles west of Spokane... and yet my garden looks so dissmal...2/3 of everything I have planted have died,,,and now I just sit on my balcony and watch the Robins raid my strawberry patch and what little strawberries I have left have!
I have better success propergating my seeds indoor on my laundry counter then I do outside!
I am ready to toss in the towel for this year!
I just came back from Wenatchee & everyhting looks awesome! So why am I having such a bad year!!!!!
And to add insult to injury.. the stinking gophers just killed another tree in my fledgling orchard..they ate ther roots plum off my 5yr old Bing Cherrie! aacck death to all gophers!
Hubbie & I mulched around the remaining 16 trees with mulched goat droppings & hay...maybe the smell will be so repugnent that the gophers will go across the road to one of our other neghbors! lol!
My poor tomato plants are blumming but they are only about 1 1/2 ft tall! I Give Up!@%$# dang it....
So kim,dear farm sister, yo are not alone!
So much for my Dirt Manicure!
That being said, my 'taters are doing fine, so least ways we won't starve! lol! 
>^..^<
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"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Jul 03 2010 : 9:59:57 PM
I don't feel so bad about my garden now. I lost half my beets, all my spinach, about 1/3 of my lettuce, and probably 80% of my carrots. My tomato plants are huge and full and my peas and limas went crazy. I have a lot of my squash plants goin good. I did have to replant 3 of my tomato plants and all the squash and cucumber plants, but early enough it was from seed. I only lost about $25 dollars on the garden so far. I have been complaining nonstop about the weeds and small loss. I thought it was a big deal, but now it doesn't seem big at all. I am ashamed for acting as I have. I will be praying for you girls to have good rewards from your very hard efforts.
Farmgirl Sister #1438
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| edlund33 |
Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 8:16:55 PM
I too am getting frustrated with my garden this year! We spent alot of time and money re-grading our garden area and adding a bunch of amendments this spring. My reward for such great planning? I had the pleasure of replanting beans, squash, zuchini, root crops and salad greens for the third time last weekend! It finally stopped raining long enough for me to spray egg water on my fruit trees to stop the deer from nibbling - although I will admit I'm about two months beyond late so no sense in expecting any fruit this fall. The only thing that seems to be going well is that my potatoes and sunchokes are growing like gang-busters and the honeybees are happily adapting to their new home. I know one of these days summer will be here but it sure is gettin' old waitin' around for it! In the meantime.....thank goodness for farmers markets!
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
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| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 3:24:22 PM
:0( That is all so sad! Wish I could have you girls over for a garden party! I can't imagine trying to grow anything in incessant rain. We don't typically have that problem here unless a hurricane comes through. Of course, here it's hot as blazes, so the rain dries up really quickly.
Other than ousting the chickens from my garden (dadgum tomato peckers!!!), the year has been kind so far. I was really worried about the LACK of rain a couple of months ago, but we've been getting a good shower every now and then.
FarmGirl #1390
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| lara916 |
Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 11:35:39 AM
Kimberly,
I am in Yelm, wa and my tomatoes are doing just as badly. I put them out to soon, but who knew we'd have rain half of the season? Looks like we will get even more drizzles today. I am thinking of building a greenhouse out of old windows & sliding doors for next year.
On the upside; my arugula, broccoli, brussel sprouts, onions and potatoes are doing great. Have you managed to have any luck at all this year?
Warmly,
Lara #327
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| Sarahpauline |
Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 09:12:38 AM
I have to admit that mine is actually looking pretty good. I water sometimes twice a day in the heat though. Heirloom watermelons look gorgeous.
Oh Mr Darcy!
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| Annab |
Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 07:58:34 AM
that's just sad
We lost orka seed in a flash flood and corn to crows this year.
So far everything else is coming along very well! We had just the right amout of rain and hot to jumpstart everything.
It's been hot and humid, and perfect for plants that need warm dirt to germinate and thrive! |
| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 06:43:49 AM
My garden is doing fairly well. This year reminds me of last year. So much rain and then real hot, the midwest and northeast lost so many tomatoes to blight. I had a real good first harvest last year and then got hit with that blight. Lost all my tomatoe plants in one night! I am sure hoping we don't repeat last year. Today is the first day without a storm for over a week. It looks like it is real nice out right now, not as humid and sunny! Need to get out and weed and check on all the plants. We have had some wicked weather in WI, 5 tornadoes on Monday night in Southern Wisconsin. Looks like I have 2 days to garden before it storms again.
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 06:41:26 AM
I just got my garden planted a month ago (Memorial Day Weekend), so I'm hoping it's too early to tell. So far the beans and tomatoes are coming up well, although they are still quite small and no blossoms let alone fruit. Lettuce is looking good and should be ready to harvest soon. Herbs that I started from seed are tiny. I still have hopes that I'll have a full garden come August. This is the first year that I've been able to plant a real garden. We got a huge tree removed from the yard in late April, and I worked hard all through May to prepare some beds. |
| KellyWall |
Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 05:37:08 AM
Hot indeed! My garden is growing, however the hens are harvesting! Anyway at least someone is enjoying fresh produce. I need to go out and pick my green beans, it is just so hot and buggy out there! I am protecting my watermelons from the hens, I hope that my daughter will be able to enjoy them before the hens do!
Kelly #238
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| MrsRooster |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 07:58:53 AM
My garden is a sorry sight. It has been so hot here in Houston. All my plants look bad. I have got some tomatoes. But it just isn't setting the world on fire. Mine is a container garden and they get watered. Not a great first year. LOL
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| sherrye |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 07:11:41 AM
hi gail, i am in redmond oregon. we have had a boomerang season for sure. i am hoping to still get some food out of the garden. potatoes were our weakness this year. ground stayed cold too long, they rotted. heres hoping we get a summer. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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| gspringman |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 06:48:31 AM
Things have'nt been much better around here. We had a frost on the 10th that took some things. Then just getting colder in the evenings flopped a couple of my tomatoes, peppers, squash. The farm I have purchased some heirlooms from before said they have'nt had much luck with plants this year, and they have a greenhouse. Everything but my strawberries right now are struggling to grow. I hear many women in town said they did'nt even grow a garden this year. Sad.
Gail
Farmgirl #486
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| Annika |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 06:36:15 AM
My garden has been drowned several times now =( VERY wet spring here in Moscow.
And something is eating my plum tree leaves....GRRRR!
I'm going to replant some things in July, but don't have my hopes up
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 06:32:12 AM
Last year was craptastic because of ALL the rain, this year it's because of the much-too-soon heat and humidity. My english peas were only good to eat straight from the pod. Not enough to even bother picking, and then they yellowed and wilted, the lettuces all went to seed before I could even pick any for salads. I'm crossing fingers that it will (at least) be good for tomatoes and my potatoes, which I will be harvesting shortly.
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| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 06:27:07 AM
Yes i was disappointed here. My squash and zuchinni had blossom end rot, ots been so hot that it pretty much cooked my cucumbers. Now i have loads of tomatoes.
Homesteading Mom in East Texas. Raising chickens, Rabbits and goats here on my farm! |
| Shery Jespersen |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 8:33:54 PM
Well, for the first time in several years, gardens are looking good around here. We endured about 8 years of drought...severe drought. Last year was good, this year is what we remember 'normal' as being...waist high grass in many places, lots of hay coming etc. We're located on the northern plains in NE Wyoming. Warm weather has been slow in coming, but it is better for us to have prolonged cool with rain than not enough rain and then suddenly hot and windy. I can't complain. We did get an impressive thunder shower this evening and if I hadn't covered things up, my flowers and plants would've gotten pretty beat up since the rain was very hard and there was some hail with it. Hail is our worst enemy here...and grasshoppers. The latter were bad last year and I hope that all the cool wet weather might have helped lessen the problem this summer. They're awful things.
Shery Jespersen
Farmgirl Sister #753
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| Mamarude |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 8:07:52 PM
I'm with ya! My apricot, plum, and apple trees all froze their blossoms off, and the garden is struggling, something is eating my broccoli leaves! It's a sad year for gardening! (My canner is looking forlorn.....)
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 5:48:58 PM
Yes I believe I have cut worms in both squash, The yellow and zucchini...also they have mold on the squash flowers...and then they die. So the thing I want to know do I take them up and distroy the plants? And then what do I do to the ground???
Thanks
Deborah
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
