better late than never??

peteyfoozer

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Bad year. September already no fruit (except some berries) corn tassled at about a foot and a half, squash is just BEGINNING to come on, no tomatoes yet and the FIRST morning glory has just bloomed. On the other hand, volunteer french marigolds are over 3' tall!! Crazy!

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Well at least the morning glories covered the arch! Our beans struggled to make it 3/4 of the way and now the vines are starting to die off. :( Maybe next year. )
 

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How funny it is, the one bloom is right in the middle too. :) You gotta love those volunteers. I know there have been some years I would have had no flowers if not for them. And they always seem so much healthier and earlier.
 

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It has been a crazy year here. TOday it was cold, cloudy and rainy all day, not to mention DARK! Felt more like winter than early fall! Not holding out much hope for the rest of the garden catching up LOL
 

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Petey', I'm still wondering how the thermometer here will make it above 90f, tomorrow.

It isn't cold but I haven't seen the sun today. I guess the "less than 1/10th of an inch" won't cool it off much tonight and the good chance of a midday thunderstorm tomorrow will just be an exclamation mark to blazing sunlight all around!

My peppers will never recover from miserable spring weather. Usually, they gather themselves ~ after I gather soil & fertilizer around them about the 1st of July ~ and make a good run for the money. It never happened this year.

In the flower garden, mediocre for the snapdragons, not so good for the zinnias, p poor for the China asters . . :/. Dahlias are still "in the process" and we will just have to see what September holds for them.

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Hey Petey, bummer about your gardens slow start, some years are so frustrating. :hugs I hate to sound like I'm bragging but the limited variety of vegetables I planted in my garden have done pretty good to really good. I have peppers that have achieved RED,
( a rarity) and ripe tomatoes, and no freeze yet. I'm happy happy happy! Oh, and I haven't weighed my potatoes yet, but I'm pretty pleased with the harvest.
 

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I glad you had some success! I finally got 2 ripe tomatoes (from volunteers, not the plants I have so painfully nurtured all year) but the chickens broke in and got them first!!! Grrrr
 

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With only 0.01" of rain all summer , my 10 rhubarb plans yielded only enough stalks for 2 9" x 14" x 2" coblers. then since we had about 2" of rain in the last 2 weeks, the rhubarbs exploded in new growth. 2 days ago my wife backed a cobbler for us, yesterday she took 3 grocery bags full of stalks to work for her coworkers to share. This morning I gave 4 grocery bags full of stalks to neighbors that give me their offerings of grass clippings. There are many new stalks starting to grow. :throw
 

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