how is your garden growing????
06-21-2011, 06:21 PM
#41
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Spring Lake, Michigan
Posts: 978
Our raised garden bed went in late this year. I have nice plants that are up and growing but I fertilized when I planted.
I am trying "Hydroponic Tomatoes" this year. They are grown in a Rubbermaid container...the plants are getting HUGE. A friend got 27 quarts of tomatoes from 4 plants last year.. Wish me luck...the raccoons cannot get to these tomatoes but chipmunks will be munching and I will be starting my "chipmunk relocation program" soon.
Hoping to get more than 7 cherry tomatoes/day from my hanging tomatoes..
I do water from my rain barrel quite often. I try hard to be "Mother Earth."
I am trying "Hydroponic Tomatoes" this year. They are grown in a Rubbermaid container...the plants are getting HUGE. A friend got 27 quarts of tomatoes from 4 plants last year.. Wish me luck...the raccoons cannot get to these tomatoes but chipmunks will be munching and I will be starting my "chipmunk relocation program" soon.
Hoping to get more than 7 cherry tomatoes/day from my hanging tomatoes..
I do water from my rain barrel quite often. I try hard to be "Mother Earth."
06-21-2011, 06:45 PM
#42
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Posts: 2,247
Western Colorado is semi-arid, so I plan accordingly, but this year has been weird. We had a very late frost/cold snap that did in my apple, peach, and pie cherries, after they bloomed heavily. Then we had much more rain than usual so there was some hope only to be followed by hot, dry winds that lasted for days, with gusts up to 55mph.
It is not looking promising.
It is not looking promising.
06-21-2011, 06:46 PM
#43
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 467
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....
06-22-2011, 06:59 AM
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Location: Enid, OK
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Originally Posted by Connie in CO
My growing season is way to short to grow anything but weeds.
my VEGGIE bed in Bethel, Alaska
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my tub o'nasturtiums in Bethel, Alaska with romaine in front!
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my studio with garden in front Bethel, Alaska
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