annyroony2

Ask the deer, they are enjoying it, they are eating peas, snaps and all of our apples are gone from the trees, either the deer or squirrels got them.

Our corn looks good (so far). Would like to have some rain.

Nolee

Live in Rochester, NY. It is dry but I keep the plants watered and they are doing beautifully, lots of tiny peppers and tomato fruits. Pray yours will blossom soon too. It IS a lot of work for not being rewarded. :(

CarrieAnne

Mines not looking real great either.....it was put in really late this year, because of cold weather.

sylvia77

My garden is doing great. I have to water it every day or it would dry up and blow away!

nycquilter

we water our garden with a timer so it gets watered each day. We only get to it, face-to-face if you will, on the weekends.

purplefiend

pretty much the same are your garden. We have tomatoes, but they are tiny, the peppers seem to like it hot as do the eggplants and melons. The green beans are dead, the squash is producing poorly. We water every other day and it helps some.
I've grown rather tired of the drought.

romanojg

And yet the weeds survive; go figure. It's crazy the things that live no matter what mother nature does to it.

Teresa 54

happy with my garden,
Reading, PA

Kallen

I only garden on a small scale. We planted 9 tomato plants, 3 cucumber, 3 green peppers, 1 zuchinni and 2 straight neck squash. It all went in on May 1st. By June 1st the squash were only as big as a dinner plate, and the cukes, and peppers had chewed up leaves. I wasn't sure if it was bugs or the hail storm. The tomato leaves were spotted with black and drying up. Thought it was maybe a fungus or too much cold and rain. I trimmed all the bad looking leaves, we did spray an insecticide (hate to do that) and put out snail bait. Everything is coming back and the squash grew gigantic in two weeks. We have small squash growing, a few tiny green cherry tomatoes, cucumbers are starting, and a couple of peppers too. Just hoping it continues to grow. It looks nice and healthy so I am keeping my fingers crossed. We also have a grow box full of strawberries, but don't get more than a handful every other day. I think they are overcrowded in the space we put them. I'm learning slowly..... :lol: I forgot to say, to everyone who is discouraged--keep trying. We'll just get better with practice, and we never know when the day will come that we will really need the food that we can grow and the skills we have developed, especially the things we have learned during the bad years.

Maybe1day

Jacquie,
I feel your pain garden wise as last year our garden didn’t grow too well either. We coddled and nursed it along with an end result that we did manage to get something from it but it did take nearly all season. Nothing wanted to grow. We have been very dry over this side of the sea so nothing is a surprise really.
Our winter garden is in at the moment and so far so good, some things have powered along while others are slowly slowly so we shall see.
I suspect the Mother Nature hasn’t finished with us yet so more pain to come. I netted my garden beds which I have found made a huge difference as it has provided a lovely micro climate for the veggies seemingly protecting them from strong winds among other nasties’.