Happy Canada Day!
I’m talking softly here so the garden doesn’t get it’s feelings hurt. It’s trying it’s best but the weather has just been a total jerk (that is, uncooperative and unconducive to growing more than weeds) – even the greenhouse wouldn’t stay very warm. We are finally, just this week, seeing double digit temperatures at night. Hopefully now, we’ll get a good mix of rain and warm to really get what we want to grow, growing.
So far, we’ve had so much rain (and after last year’s fires, I will never complain – in earnest, anyway – about rain again) that getting into the garden to keep up on weeds has been impossible. I had some time earlier today to get a little work done and take inventory of how it’s all doing. Sadly, after the freezes in mid June, and then all the cool, wet, and windy weather since, we only have one pumpkin plant that is still slowly growing, and one squash plant that is doing ok. No watermelons sprouted.
The potatoes did recover as other gardeners promised, and they, along with the onions and celery are doing pretty good. The strawberry plants are kind of in a holding pattern, not suffering from the cooler weather, but not growing either. Most of the cabbage is slowly growing, while most of the broccoli and cauliflower are goners. I haven’t seen an asparagus sprout so far. The carrots, which I was sure weren’t going to come up, have made an appearance, I’m happy about that.
So overall, the reason that I gave this post the title that I did, was in part due to the weather, as well as the garden soil is basically all new. We didn’t garden for 2 years then we dumped in massive amounts of manure and peat moss/dirt (our own, removed when we built a road to our back field and had to go through the bog), so we really have no idea what to expect at every stage of growing this year. If we get anything at all, I’ll be pleased! Potatoes are the one thing I hope does well, since over half the potatoes we buy in stores (any stores) have rot inside.
I’d like to thank the WIND for showing up on a lovely calm morning and making it impossible to get mulch put down (had to give up mid-onions, as you can see) so I’m watching the trees, ready to dash out and finish as soon as it’s possible! Thankfully, the greenhouse is protected from that, so I’ll be able to get ahead in there, soon.
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