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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
1515 Posts
Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jun 30 2010 : 8:16:55 PM
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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
Farm Girl No. 1100
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2010 : 9:59:57 PM
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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 $25 dollars on the garden so far. I have been complaining nonstop about the weeds and small loss. I thought it was a big deal, but now it doesn't seem big at all. I am ashamed for acting as I have. I will be praying for you girls to have good rewards from your very hard efforts.
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2010 : 11:29:57 PM
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hey Kim,
don't feel bad, I was begining to feel like I live on a totaly differnt planet...just 15 miles west of Spokane... and yet my garden looks so dissmal...2/3 of everything I have planted have died,,,and now I just sit on my balcony and watch the Robins raid my strawberry patch and what little strawberries I have left have!
I have better success propergating my seeds indoor on my laundry counter then I do outside!
I am ready to toss in the towel for this year!
I just came back from Wenatchee & everyhting looks awesome! So why am I having such a bad year!!!!!
And to add insult to injury.. the stinking gophers just killed another tree in my fledgling orchard..they ate ther roots plum off my 5yr old Bing Cherrie! aacck death to all gophers!
Hubbie & I mulched around the remaining 16 trees with mulched goat droppings & hay...maybe the smell will be so repugnent that the gophers will go across the road to one of our other neghbors! lol!
My poor tomato plants are blumming but they are only about 1 1/2 ft tall! I Give Up!@%$# 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! 
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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quiltin mama
True Blue Farmgirl
436 Posts
Heather
Crescent City
CA
USA
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Posted - Jul 06 2010 : 10:32:46 AM
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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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Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2010 : 6:57:41 PM
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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 |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2010 : 04:46:19 AM
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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
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Ingrid
True Blue Farmgirl
432 Posts
Ingrid
BC
Canada
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Posted - Jul 12 2010 : 07:18:59 AM
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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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supernaynay
Farmgirl at Heart
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Jeanne
Santa Margarita
CA
USA
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Posted - Jul 13 2010 : 12:25:41 PM
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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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Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2010 : 07:06:32 AM
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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 |
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Dismall garden results so far...anyone else?
