Late May Garden
Originally uploaded by kerner
This is my garden exactly 1 month ago. So pretty - peas threatening to climb off the trellis and into the trees above, tomato plants growing strong, lettuce plentiful...
My sad, pathetic garden
Originally uploaded by kerner
Here is my garden today. The peas and lettuce are done, so I ripped
them out. They are spring crops so I guess I'm not that surprised that
a week of 95 degree weather did them in. One of my tomato plants
mysteriously turned yellow, shriveled up and dried, so I ripped it out.
The remaining cherry tomato plant looks pretty decent, but the big
tomato plant is growing like gangbusters, yet only has about 3 blooms
on it.
How frustrating. Not that I really know what I'm doing when it comes to
gardening, but I really had my hopes up this year. Even though I know
it's too late, I planted some beans along the trellis just to try to
salvage a little something out of the garden this year.
How is your garden doing not that we are in the heat of summer?
It's not too late for beans - they take about 60 days to get edible vegetables, so you should get some yummy beans at the end of August.
My garden is doing okay. I have some tiny baby squash and my tomato plants are going like crazy. I just hope I can keep it all alive long enough to actually get some produce.
I've been sighing about my garden as well. My salad bowl on the deck croaked over the weekend - we'll see if anything rebounds. One tomato plant has fruit on it; the other has a ton of new green growth but still no flowers or fruit. The peppers have shot up but still no fruit on them either. I definitely need to play in the dirt this weekend & give them some attention.
oh no! I'm so sorry to hear about your garden. Hope the tomato plant makes it!
That's too bad! It's not very hot here yet (between 50-60F) so the gardens and farms are doing ok. There was a water shortage warning recently so the lawns were getting a bit brown but now that it's rain for three days everything is green again. If you over fertilize does that lead to big plants with little fruit?
Oh, that stinks!! I thought you were going to say that the deer got to your garden... We've had a major heat wave for the last few days, but it's starting to subside. Thankfully, the garden has survived -- maybe even thrived because of the heat! I've been watering it by hand though -- I need to put a drip line in this weekend.