Post by Stacy on May 25, 2012 22:19:45 GMT -5
The rain.. the dang rain! My potatoes were doing great just no so long ago. Now we don't know if they are all rotted in the ground or not, we'll try pulling one again in a few days. They really aren't even big enough to call "baby" potatoes.
Mike says all the peppers are gone. Most of the tomatoes are lookin' like the saddest bunch of .... well, you know. The lettuces all drowned, the peas, gone. The broc is ok for now at least. We'll be harvesting that soon.
Squash, pumpkins, cukes and melons... gone gone gone.
We have a long growing season here. But this rain... we can't even mow for the rain. I doubt we'll be able to retill the rows up (since they are more or less flat messes at this point!) in time to replant anything at all. Pretty sure we'll have to do without cukes this year. Total bummer. <sigh>
The good news is, we can swim in the front and back yards. But so are the chickens and I'm pretty sure one of the kids taught the heifer the backstroke yesterday. No, really though, my kids are playing "in the water" out in the ditch line (it doesn't run from any crap or anything nasty, just runs between our driveway and the next one but doesn't drain to the road for some reason).
Does anyone have any recommendations for this gardening season? My raised bed gardens and all potted plants are thankfully, doing well. The newest one is slow growing stuff, but it's working on it. I only have a few small tomato plants (patio tomatoes they are called), peas, onions, scallions, snow peas, broc. and some misc. lettuces in there however. When the peas come out, I'll plant in some cukes and see if I can salvage that at least a tiny bit!
Oh yeah, the fruit trees dropped a LOT of their fruits for some reason too. The peach is doing awesome, everything else, not so much. The grapes are in love with the rain, as are the blackberries. The raspberry plant is trying to just give up and DIE! And we did find one volunteer tomato plant that's doing great in an area I tried to plant potatoes last year under hay and grass clippings. I guess because it's raised up a bit? Should be a cherokee tomato. We need a LOT more than a few plants can give though.
Mike says all the peppers are gone. Most of the tomatoes are lookin' like the saddest bunch of .... well, you know. The lettuces all drowned, the peas, gone. The broc is ok for now at least. We'll be harvesting that soon.
Squash, pumpkins, cukes and melons... gone gone gone.
We have a long growing season here. But this rain... we can't even mow for the rain. I doubt we'll be able to retill the rows up (since they are more or less flat messes at this point!) in time to replant anything at all. Pretty sure we'll have to do without cukes this year. Total bummer. <sigh>
The good news is, we can swim in the front and back yards. But so are the chickens and I'm pretty sure one of the kids taught the heifer the backstroke yesterday. No, really though, my kids are playing "in the water" out in the ditch line (it doesn't run from any crap or anything nasty, just runs between our driveway and the next one but doesn't drain to the road for some reason).
Does anyone have any recommendations for this gardening season? My raised bed gardens and all potted plants are thankfully, doing well. The newest one is slow growing stuff, but it's working on it. I only have a few small tomato plants (patio tomatoes they are called), peas, onions, scallions, snow peas, broc. and some misc. lettuces in there however. When the peas come out, I'll plant in some cukes and see if I can salvage that at least a tiny bit!
Oh yeah, the fruit trees dropped a LOT of their fruits for some reason too. The peach is doing awesome, everything else, not so much. The grapes are in love with the rain, as are the blackberries. The raspberry plant is trying to just give up and DIE! And we did find one volunteer tomato plant that's doing great in an area I tried to plant potatoes last year under hay and grass clippings. I guess because it's raised up a bit? Should be a cherokee tomato. We need a LOT more than a few plants can give though.
We are very dry already and needing rain pretty bad. Yards are already going brown and cows are outta pasture already too. Had to open up two more fields and they won't last long and we'll be feeding hay if we don't get any. I don't even look for the pasture they are on now to recover unless it rains soon. 
I kept the few replacement plants on the porch. I don't want to put them out. Mike's right now trying to just till everything under and redo the rows before the next round of rain starts. 
