Kinda Bummed out :(

[Jim]

I'm kinda bummed out. I preaty much sucked this year getting my garden in. I've got some tomato plants at my Moms anD grandmas but otherwise a few dwarfs in pots for me and herbs in pots. I had seedling die in flats and basically missed the boat on getting things planted. I guess all I can do know if prep and build areas for next year.

I'm done whining now.

[stratcat]

Hey, Clarkbar.

Some years are like this. In some of my dark years I may have only had my herbs and maybe a tomato or two in a pot if I were lucky.

With a new addition to your family this is quite understandable. I didn't have an excuse.

Keep everything watered.

Hang in there.

john

[stratcat]

Hi, Clarkbar.

Are you going to try a fall garden with say: carrots, peas, maybe beans? Not sure in Michigan where you are located.

Still looking for my carrot seed to plant in a rectangular container. Maybe lettuce, too.

john

[plantsnobin]

Don't be too hard on yourself. This year has been crazy for probably most of the country. In the springtime, everyone tends to get carried away with plans for the year. We are almost all guilty of buying more seed than we can ever plant. This years weather has made it almost impossible to do what needed to be done when it needed to be done. That's why I like to garden with plenty of perennials. You can spread out the risk a bit more. It isn't too late now to get going on a fall garden, maybe the temps and rainfall will be more gardening friendly in a little bit. Like when it goes below 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity. For now, watching Sam grow is more important than a few plants anyway. Enjoy it while you can.

[canadamike]

Relax my friend, it just nature. It has ben a crappy year at best, but many veggies don't really care.

Funnily, I have the best garden I ever had. Because of the snow, I started loads of stuff inside. It became a blessing once I put them out, the seeds of the same crops ( brassicacae and corns, mostly) rotted in the field. I had to replant later of course...very much so.

But since I made lots of new land, it did not bother me as much that I was late because of the rain, I had something to do, and I turned things like the usual carrot crop into a fall one, same with most greens and brassicas and beets, and lettuces of course.

You still have a great gardening season ahead of you, time that you use the fall a bit more.

As long as the baby is the priority of course the most magnificent seed as germinated my friend, you got the garden of a king this summer, don't forget that...

[landarc]

Yup, for various reasons, for the past couple of years, I did not plant, and the year before that was minimal. This year marks the first year in four, that I have gotten even close to a full garden. It is a great feeling. Whether you know it or not, you got something to look forward to next season.

[flowerpower]

I feel like I have more weeds than crops. lol Just seems like a shitty yr for almost everyone. I am getting ready to put in some fall crops. More lettuce, peas, rutabaga, carrots....At least my pole and bush beans are doing well. This is the worst season I have had since I moved here.

[Jim]

Thanks guys and gals. I've had my hands full with Sam and work and just can't seem to break away long enough to play in the dirt. I'll probably get a little fall stuff in. I plan on building 2 4x8 beds this weekend. I've got to post some new Sam pics. He's growing like a weed..

[Alan]

Hey brother,

no need to be so hard on yourself, you've always got next year, and the year after that, and the year after that and all the great and amazing things that you can teach to Sam that which will remember the rest of life, just take things easy this year and keep the garden plans in the back of your head, wait for rain and snow to start flying and write down all that you learned this year and implement it next spring, things will definetly get better!

For now Sam can be your garden, you can cultivate your knowledge, wisdom, and fatherhood and family there and sprout an intellectual garden unmatched in the known world.

I, the gardener/current non-father am envious of the garden you are cultivating at the moment!



All is good and we love you!

[Jim]

Thanks. There is always next year.

Sam is growing like a weed.

[flowerpower]

Next yr, Sam will be out there helping you in the garden. Won't that be cool?

[lavandulagirl]

I totally sympathize, CB... I didn't plant in VA since we were moving, and now I'm in CA during prime crop season, with nothing. On Saturday, though, I'm going to a Master Gardener class on fall/winter veggies, and I'll see what I can maybe get in this year. I have a spot. It even has a drip irrigation system in. I'm itching to get out there, but want to see what is tried and true for this area.

Have fun with Sam. Remember, he's only this baby one time. If you were outside, you wouldn't be seeing the hourly changes in that super kid. Next year, he'll be running to you to show you each new thing he's learned. You'll have time then.

[Jim]

Well I made some progress as far as atleast preparing for next year. I had 25 strawbales delivered to try strawbale gardening next year. Also good mulch for the beds I plan on getting in. The only problem I have now is they got rained on preaty good as soon as I stacked them. So I suppose I'll try to get them placed where I plan on growing next year so they'll start breaking down over the fall, winter, and early spring. I also got a load of bricks and some retaining wall stones to build some beds. Progress progress progress.

[flowerpower]

You should put some newspaper or cardboard under the straw. It will help kill off the weeds.

[canadamike]

And some corn gluten ( sold as horse feed ) on the soil, is is a powerful anti-germinative. Plus it enriches the soil.