how is your garden growing????
06-20-2011, 02:48 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by BabyCakes
My tomatoes do not like the cool nites.Spinach/lettuce doing very well.Cool weather crops doing fine.
06-21-2011, 04:57 AM
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Andii, she is using container gardening, very similar to raised bed gardening. the red trays are made for tomatoes. the red helps the tomatoes turn the energy from the sun into an easier-to-use format for the tomatoes. I know that's a shoddy explanation, but it works. I tend to use red plastic around my tomatoes. the trays also tend to reduce bugs. the benefit of this kind of gardening is that you don't need to dig into rocky soil, the soil is better because you make it, and harvest of rooted veggies is much simpler. Check out the gardengirltv.com or squarefootgardening.com for more info.
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06-21-2011, 06:51 AM
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Everything here is wilting too. :( We try to water, water, water and that seems to help some. Left town for the weekend and paid someone to come over and water - can't miss a day. Sometimes I even water TWICE in one day. Can't wait to see what DH says when he sees the water bill.
06-21-2011, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
I tell you..if we had to actually LIVE off what we grow, we would be starving this year...
first came the late winter(in March/April) and now it is the August heat in May/June...we have been over 100 for most of 3 weeks now..and NOTHING is growing..
I have pepper plants that should be 3' tall and loaded with peppers that are only 6" tall and barren.....
the tomatoes make blooms, that wither and die two days later...NO zuchini, either...I am heart broken..it is a lot of painful work for me to put in the garden each year and when this happens it is twice the pain....
wondering how others are fairing this year with all of the really wacky weather across the country....
willing to trade fabric for a bushel of picking cukes...sigh....
first came the late winter(in March/April) and now it is the August heat in May/June...we have been over 100 for most of 3 weeks now..and NOTHING is growing..
I have pepper plants that should be 3' tall and loaded with peppers that are only 6" tall and barren.....
the tomatoes make blooms, that wither and die two days later...NO zuchini, either...I am heart broken..it is a lot of painful work for me to put in the garden each year and when this happens it is twice the pain....
wondering how others are fairing this year with all of the really wacky weather across the country....
willing to trade fabric for a bushel of picking cukes...sigh....
06-21-2011, 07:49 AM
#28
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Location: north east
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I have one tomato plant that has two flowers on it and I have lots of flowers planted, mostly dahlias, morning glories and moon-flowers.
Everything is doing great this year. We had a ton of snow this past winter and a fairly warm wet spring, but the plants are growing at the normal speed.
Everything is doing great this year. We had a ton of snow this past winter and a fairly warm wet spring, but the plants are growing at the normal speed.
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