How Does Your Garden Grow?

Continues to be a dense cloud cover with torrents of rain or moderate continous showers since i began this thread ~3 days ago. Real problems in W. NH now. Since it has been a month that the sun has fully shone and actually this goes back to 5/20 minus a few sporadic days late may (although it did rain part of those days), those of us with livestock will not have access to a local haycrop and Canadian hay will be the expensive if available at all for the winter. IF this continues into July, I would bet $ the weather has been weaponized.

Yeah, I'm with you ... June here in NH was absolutely terrible! With all the rain and lack of sun, growth in my garden has been very slow. It was so wet that slugs ate the last of my spring lettuce crop ... I'm now a little worried about the possibility of rot in my potato crop, but I'm crossing my fingers. Tomato is growing OK, peppers are slow. BARELY SEEN THE SUN IN A MONTH UP HERE!!

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"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." -- General John Stark.

My indoor garden has been doing pretty good overall. I've been growing black oil sunflower seed & speckled pea shoots in 1" of soil in 17" x 17" growing trays over the last three weeks. They both seem to be doing well and give me about a 6 - 8 inch sprout about every seven or eight days. They both are great in salads and the sunflower shoot is especially good in sandwiches.

My wheatgrass crop is a little bit more tempermental. My first batch of hard red winter wheat didn't seem to want to grow to the jointing stage when it is optimal to cut it. I normally have to cut it at about 5 or 6 inches before the tips start to yellow. The hard red spring wheat seems to grow better than the winter wheat although, as I have read, it normally never reaches the jointing stage. Like always, I think a lot depends on the batch of seed. I'm still tinkering with the soil mixture as well.

Our weather in North Central Idaho is OK. It's drier and cooler than normal so far this year. The big wheat, barley, and lentil farms around here look to be doing OK, although I heard that the yield will be down 15% because of the heavy, long-lasting snow pack last winter. We've been a little low on rain, it seems, which might not be good for the dry farming around here.

In our own garden, we're getting a bumper crop of raspberries and cherries. The jury is still out on everything else.

It's HOT here in Oklahoma. The plants that survived the wind earlier this spring are now very slowly progressing because of the heat. Hopefully a cool down coming up will spur some new growth.

Still getting lemons & lots of sugar peas, a few eggplant may be ready- but the wind has blown about 15 new palm branches into the yard and mooshed some of the brussel sprouts. Its raining buckets here and there. Ill be back in the states next week for a month- Itll be so nice to get back in the warm weather lol

I am in CT. I lucked out. I have been so tied up I haven't even planted yet. Everything is still indoors. Granted I have very little going in. Rain has been constant. Maybe to clear days in thirty.

"I don't want to be in a battle . . . but
waiting on the edge of one I can't escape
is even worse"

More rain than I can ever remember in Western Mass. There was a frosty night or two in May that made me have to replant a few. Definitely cooler than normal around this time of year and even more rain is expected for the rest of the week. We've had a fair amount of sun, thankfully. For the past few weeks, each day seems to start out with rain or dense clouds and it clears up by mid-late afternoon.

This is the first year I've set to task planting a large vegetable garden--beginning with starting seeds indoors back in March.

The weather is RELENTLESS here in NH.

It's not a matter of whether it will be a day of sunshine or rain anymore but if it will be sprinkling or POURING. And we've had some massive downpours.

The cloud cover is very dense and when it does open up (very rarely) it is an awesome sight to behold --- multi-dimensional Michelangelo clouds.

My garden is ok. Peas, potatoes, spinach, and lettuce are fabulous. Squashes, beans, and cukes are plugging along. Tomatoes are a bit stunted, but I guess that's too be expected. What I've found impossible is weeding, on those rare moments I can find some time to do so it is raining. I don't mind getting wet, it's just a muddy mess.

A lot of rain - garden going slowly

A garden here far exceeds the costs of produce being sold in the proliferation of markets competing for your dollar. We garden only for fun (not) - nothing on TV.

We've had a lot of rain in south florida. we also are under threat of a low pressure system in gulf of mexico right now. but, this was my first year for mangoes. (short season) many of them blew down as little things. i am now growing papayas, which are sprouting up rapidly.
I have pineapple started with some herbs and tomatoes. pests are difficult here. and I garden organically. we also have big lizards that grow here now. they are not native and they kill off the small lizards and eat our plants. Other than that, life is a breeze.

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and everything is doing great! potatoes, corn, green beans, tomatoes. Loving it too!

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I had such bad result I had to redo almost everything. I'll stick to wal mart and southern sates seeds and local plants. I don't use pesticides or herbicides. Thats as organic as I'm gonna get. All that money wasted trying to go"all" organic. I have tomatoes that something is taking a bite out of as each one gets ripe, zuccini as big as my arm and plenty of it,squash,cucumbers,some blueberries,raspberries,strawberries,Just a few
I just got the bushes a month ago and the plants. I had gotten all of that on line ealier.Some hasn't come yet and what did either came dead didn't survive or is so tiny it probably won't bare fruit for years. I wish I had known about the berry farm near me ,well I knew about it but i didn't know they sold trees plants,and bushes, All very hearty too. Cheaper than what I ordered elswhere. Live and learn. Feels good to have planted some thing that will come back every year. Oh I'm trying kiwi too. I'm not sure how they will do inVa. I haven't had any luck with bush beans this year or last.
Any ideas on that? Even thought it may be late I'm going to try another planting and some more lettuce