Sparse input

[reed]

Wow, I just did a quick check of a couple seed companies. Didn't realize how bad it was as far as getting seeds. Looks like combination of being out of stock and reduced workforce. Glad I have a pretty good supply of my own.

[wyspinner]

Wry grin I like that I can come in here and read and I don't get bombarded with photos and assumptions that "now is prime tomato season" UMM not in my neck of the woods it isn't. I was thrilled to actually see 3 open flowers today on my tomatoes. This week we will have some days with highs is the 80s but our lows are still hitting 50 or below...
My squash are just starting to grow, most of my beans have finally sprouted and some of my peas have pods... My potatoes are doing very well right now. Winter squash are doing good, I ended up with 2 Winter Sweet, 2 Tetsukabuto and 1 Bon Bon plant(blasted squirrel). Summer squash sigh my friend "helping" me apparently once again totally disregarded my planting instructions and went back and added seeds to my Tromboncino grow bag. I had 2 plants doing well now there is a third sprouting and I am afraid there may be more in there. I said two she kept saying five. Sigh. Mind you I also have 2 pattypan and 2 zucchini plants and there are only 2 of us in the family... NONE of my root crops got planted this year due to injuries that limited what we could do in the garden but I did sprinkle some lettuce blends and other salad green type blends and those are starting to sprout so we may get some fresh salads. OH and my cucumbers got started a bit late but I do have some tiny seedlings out there.
Also doing very well for me this year are the Micro Dwarf Tomatoes I just discovered this growing season. I think at least a few will always be in my container garden just because they are so cute.

[prairiegardens]

Not much going on here this year, lots of stuff never sprouted, and some perennials (mostly flowers) are still in a holding pattern for a helper to come dig some holes for them. The weather has been bobbing up and down like flotsam in a stormy sea, with high wind being the common denominator. Bought some seedlings when almost nothing of my own germinated, so far I am impressed only by a chocolate cherry and five medicinal cannabis plants (legal to grow in Canada now) three of which the wind bent more than double and they not only survived and are trying hard to straighten up again and flower, much to my astonishment. They didn't like it in the greenhouse, where they lived until the forecast quit bordering on frost. If they actually produce much of anything I'll have to learn to make essential oils, I suppose...one sacrificial plant got chopped into scrambled eggs, can't say as I noticed any particular benefit though.

Oh yes, went to check my lemon tree today and caught a flash of a glorious purple...a volunteer violet next to the lemon tree stem was a delightful bonus to the morning.

[RpR]

Both gardens have exploded in growth with the warm humid weather.
I found out my South gardens corn problem is due to Turkeys scratching out the seed, even tipping over grown plants.
Time for a home grown turkey dinner; I will get some sub-sonic 22 cartridges.

I had to rip out dozens of volunteer potato plants as they became weeds taking over parts of the garden.
Tomatoes are slow this year but my chiles are going gang-busters.
Potatoes are doing real, real well but those up North were in first but came through the mulch a week after those down South; both were planted in 12 inches of leaf mulch.
Field corn down South was untouched, and sweet corn planted under mulch seem to have mostly survived.
Besides the potatoes I have been ripping out volunteer tomatoes, tomatillos, all seemed to want to grow in a small area but not in a large empty spot.
I have planted Purple Peruvian potatoes for years but never , ever, had the problem of them spreading like weeds the next year before.

I weeded most of the purslane out up North but will probably leave most of it down South as I found out once in a dry year when I pulled it, it was moist under the mat of purslane.

I put in several dozen roses in a last probably ever. big time planting; I used to have 42 but was down to 8.

[flowerbug]

purselane is one of those edible weeds that i leave a few in just in case... it's not that bad. based upon how many are around here i'd never be short of edible greens.

[RpR]

I changed my mind and filled two 70 gallon bins with mostly Purslane.
It was tall and spindly rather than spreading doing little to keep the ground moist.
Despite high humidity, ground was very dry down South and I had to water heavily; after watering pulling weeds was much easier but made it a dirty job.

[RpR]

Both gardens are doing very well this summer.

Thinned out the North garden as squash vines were running wild and tomatoes had merged into looking like one giant plant rather than three.
Picked my black radishes and they did real well.
Beets are doing far better than expected.
Chiles are doing the absolute best ever, even crowding does not bother them.
It rather odd, my volunteer Peruvian potatoes were over whelming one side of the garden but now the squash are burying them in a jungle of leaves.
A garden that is a lavish sea of green is kind of sweet to look at but then you realize that you have to rip parts out or it will self destruct.
They do not spray for skeets up hear and they , very oddly, are not much of a problem this year.

Down South , having found out it was the feral tame Turkeys that were ruining my corn planting, which are now removed, the corn that survived is doing very well.
Vine plants down there are also running wild and potatoes look good with some starting to show signs of reaching end of life.
Picked a few potato bugs a month ago then the went away, possibly Turkeys eating them before they were removed.
New batch of Hybrid Tea roses put in this year, so far, are doing very well.

[xdrix]

Its globaly a medium year for the garden.
The tomato are more long than the other years for mature but some measured more of 2 meters with of very long internodes.
The plants of squashs maxima are more little than the others years, but the moschatas are good 2 fruits in a plant of violino rugosa. My beans and cowpeas are well.
We have had a dry and windy spring and our summer is dry.