Has extreme weather affected your garden this year?

[Lavender2]

Glad the brunt of that storm missed you @journey11 ! And my sympathy to you all under the relentless clouds. We had that last year, May and June, only 3 days of clear sky, it was almost strange to see blue!

The hail took out about half of my sunflowers and beat the onions up pretty bad, they were looking so great this year. Carrots are pulling up from the mud. I was shocked the tomatoes, peppers and cukes came through with just a few holes in the leaves. Cooler, quieter weather is in our forecast, hope that lasts a while!

 

[Smart Red]

Cooler, quieter weather is in our forecast, hope that lasts a while!

Amen!

 

[majorcatfish]

what a sad find thing morning, we have had just shy of 2" in the last week and they are calling for another 1" thu sunday.
found 6 of the yellow watermelon that were a week away for picking split open due to too much water. so over the fence they went..

did find one that was not split took inside, the knife barely touched it and it split in half by itself, sweat but not there yet...

hate to say this but ready for some clear hot weather.........

 

[journey11]

I'm getting a whole lot of nothing done outside today.

I had plans to at least move the chickens to new grass, but it has rained all afternoon and I'm running out of time now since we told the kids we'd take them to the carnival tonight. That will probably get rained out too.

I have two nice rows of potatoes going and hope to get something out of them. A little bit of McCormick's Blue Dent corn (didn't get good germination on it really, but what I have is growing.) The big pumpkin vine in front is a volunteer and making lots of pumpkins! Out of sight, down on the far left is 5 rows of tomatoes, half of them sprawled out and out of control. Don't know if I'll get a chance to stake the remainder at this rate. In the left of the picture, all of that solid swath of grass you see is supposed to be GARDEN. Haven't had opportunity to plant it, much less weed it. All the cardboard and mulch I have ready to go, but had I put it on it would have retained too much water as the soil has never really dried out much yet. I am super bummed out. Can hardly stand to look at it being that I can't get in there and do anything to fix it.

Only good thing about the "lawn" in the garden is that it is holding my soil back from erosion!

I am truly sorry about your watermelons bursting, @majorcatfish . I had that happen one year with my Crimson Sweet. Soooo disappointing! What type of yellow watermelon did you plant? I bought some seed for a yellow called "Sweet Siberian". It's 80 dtm, so I'm hoping I still have time to plant it this year if July will dry out some and let me.

 

[Carol Dee]

@journey11 you have a very pleasant view there, even in the rain!

 

[majorcatfish]

@journey11 they are new queen also 80dtm had to be very careful checking for melons they are quite a few new melons in the patch hidden under all the leafs.
love a ripe crimson sweet, just might get a pack and plant a couple in a bed.... love the view as well.

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/New_Queen_Watermelon_Seed/watermelon_seed

 

[journey11]

@journey11 they are new queen also 80dtm had to be very careful checking for melons they are quite a few new melons in the patch hidden under all the leafs.
love a ripe crimson sweet, just might get a pack and plant a couple in a bed.... love the view as well.

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/New_Queen_Watermelon_Seed/watermelon_seed

So all is not lost. They may turn out yet.

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm getting a whole lot of nothing done outside today.

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I had plans to at least move the chickens to new grass, but it has rained all afternoon and I'm running out of time now since we told the kids we'd take them to the carnival tonight. That will probably get rained out too.

I have two nice rows of potatoes going and hope to get something out of them. A little bit of McCormick's Blue Dent corn (didn't get good germination on it really, but what I have is growing.) The big pumpkin vine in front is a volunteer and making lots of pumpkins! Out of sight, down on the far left is 5 rows of tomatoes, half of them sprawled out and out of control. Don't know if I'll get a chance to stake the remainder at this rate. In the left of the picture, all of that solid swath of grass you see is supposed to be GARDEN. Haven't had opportunity to plant it, much less weed it. All the cardboard and mulch I have ready to go, but had I put it on it would have retained too much water as the soil has never really dried out much yet. I am super bummed out. Can hardly stand to look at it being that I can't get in there and do anything to fix it.

Only good thing about the "lawn" in the garden is that it is holding my soil back from erosion!

I am truly sorry about your watermelons bursting, @majorcatfish . I had that happen one year with my Crimson Sweet. Soooo disappointing! What type of yellow watermelon did you plant? I bought some seed for a yellow called "Sweet Siberian". It's 80 dtm, so I'm hoping I still have time to plant it this year if July will dry out some and let me.

Yes Journey, you do have a nice view from your porch. So sorry about your uncooperative weather. There is nothing more maddening than to have lots to do and no way to get it done. I hope you dry out soon. I grew Sweet Siberian one year but they didn't ripen before frost so the chickens enjoyed them.

 

[thistlebloom]

hate to say this but ready for some clear hot weather.......

Take ours! Please!

 

[journey11]

I love that barn. Wish it were mine!