Glad all I have to worry about is slugs and maybe a mole every few years. Wish we still had the farm and plenty of garden space. We miss the filberts and other trees, deer, the cool wellhouse, barn, berries and fruit, fresh water well, no assinine sewer bill, running the farm equipment, and the filbert harvest each October. Sigh.
The two elm trees the developer left as a small park died, sadly. Too hemmed in by asphalt and concrete would be my guess. I have a hard time going to Nanny's monument/plaque there now - broke our hearts; it has been lovingly shaded for 15 years but will get full sun this summer for the first time. I haven't told anyone else in the family.
This year has been so friggin' wet that all our plants are just stalled like it was still March. 4 inches of rain in the first week of June (a record) when that's all we normally get for the whole month.
Gardening in the mud is no fun, but I couldn't wait any longer or there'd never be a crop this fall, so stuck some squash, corn, cuke, and bean seeds in last week. The annuals we planted a month ago are stuck in limbo or slug-devoured. Some sun this week will hopefully get some phototransport going so they can suck up all the fertilizer I've put down every 2 weeks so far, and get to growing. At least the 4 tomatoes (Big Boy, Willamette, grape, and patio) and the green bell and banana peppers are growing a little - the sun should help them finally take off. I have to slug bait almost daily because the rain washes it away; darn slugs just keep coming, so I sprayed liquid metaldehyde on the lawn and beds yesterday to see if that would slow them. Just saw some old pix of yard taken June, 2004, and we were harvesting blueberries - they're still as green as grass this year. Even the birds haven't raided them yet, so I haven't put up the netting. Lousiest weather I can remember this year.
Sounds like you must have an acre of yard to plant all that stuff, Dude. Sometimes I think I just plant a garden cuz I like to run my Troy-Bilt. Ha. We do like the tomatoes though. Dried a bunch of cherry tomatoes last fall, and our Patio tomatoe in the pot had fruit on it into December. We always plant a garden and wonder why, cuz hopefully we spend summer and fall in the RV and aren't gonna be home to harvest. No money last year so stayed home and enjoyed the yard - even did some canning. Gets to be some work.
Well, I've rambled. Better quit and gofer the mail (snicker).
Gad, as Nanny would say. Talk about a washed out season. Corn and tomatoes barely ripened last month, and nothing to holler about. Specially after wet-weather diseases got to 'em. Can't even get out in the garden to clean up the mess, cuz it just keeps raining. Worst I've ever seen methinks. Be glad you're in California. At least the mountains are getting plenty of snow, and snow levels down to 1000 ft this week already. Should be a good snopack for next summer's reservoirs.
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Glad all I have to worry about is slugs and maybe a mole every few years. Wish we still had the farm and plenty of garden space. We miss the filberts and other trees, deer, the cool wellhouse, barn, berries and fruit, fresh water well, no assinine sewer bill, running the farm equipment, and the filbert harvest each October. Sigh.
The two elm trees the developer left as a small park died, sadly. Too hemmed in by asphalt and concrete would be my guess. I have a hard time going to Nanny's monument/plaque there now - broke our hearts; it has been lovingly shaded for 15 years but will get full sun this summer for the first time. I haven't told anyone else in the family.
This year has been so friggin' wet that all our plants are just stalled like it was still March. 4 inches of rain in the first week of June (a record) when that's all we normally get for the whole month.
Gardening in the mud is no fun, but I couldn't wait any longer or there'd never be a crop this fall, so stuck some squash, corn, cuke, and bean seeds in last week. The annuals we planted a month ago are stuck in limbo or slug-devoured. Some sun this week will hopefully get some phototransport going so they can suck up all the fertilizer I've put down every 2 weeks so far, and get to growing. At least the 4 tomatoes (Big Boy, Willamette, grape, and patio) and the green bell and banana peppers are growing a little - the sun should help them finally take off. I have to slug bait almost daily because the rain washes it away; darn slugs just keep coming, so I sprayed liquid metaldehyde on the lawn and beds yesterday to see if that would slow them. Just saw some old pix of yard taken June, 2004, and we were harvesting blueberries - they're still as green as grass this year. Even the birds haven't raided them yet, so I haven't put up the netting. Lousiest weather I can remember this year.
Sounds like you must have an acre of yard to plant all that stuff, Dude. Sometimes I think I just plant a garden cuz I like to run my Troy-Bilt. Ha. We do like the tomatoes though. Dried a bunch of cherry tomatoes last fall, and our Patio tomatoe in the pot had fruit on it into December. We always plant a garden and wonder why, cuz hopefully we spend summer and fall in the RV and aren't gonna be home to harvest. No money last year so stayed home and enjoyed the yard - even did some canning. Gets to be some work.
Well, I've rambled. Better quit and gofer the mail (snicker).
Unca Doe
Gad, as Nanny would say. Talk about a washed out season. Corn and tomatoes barely ripened last month, and nothing to holler about. Specially after wet-weather diseases got to 'em. Can't even get out in the garden to clean up the mess, cuz it just keeps raining. Worst I've ever seen methinks. Be glad you're in California. At least the mountains are getting plenty of snow, and snow levels down to 1000 ft this week already. Should be a good snopack for next summer's reservoirs.
Unca Doe