Garden Updates 2017

[bwallace23350]

To get rid of Johnson and nut grass get some EDPM roofing material or sheet metal and cover small areas  at a time.  This is a better choice than glyphosphate for bee keepers and small areas.

That is a much better way of working it.

[GSF]

Well my garden has been a bust. I haven't gave it the attention a garden deserves, then there's the monsoon that set in and never left. Everything's turning a pale color, wet feet I recon.

[BeeMaster2]

My wife's garden has produced a lot of food so far but we had 4 1/2" of rain yesterday and it was under water most of the night. She needs to get out there and pick what ever is left.
Our front yard looked like a fair sized stream even though I have 3 18" grates spread across the yard that are connected to an 8" pipe that feeds to the creek. Just too much water too fast.
Jim

[tycrnp]

Yep, the rain has been ridiculous.  The city has had a pump in my front yard for the past 2 - 3 weeks sending all of this water into the bay.  My garden fortunately sits on higher ground.

[bwallace23350]

The rain has really crushed my garden. Even the peas started rotting on the plant. The tomatoes have done better than hopped given the circumstances and so have the peppers. Squash on the ground rots way to fast. The fruit was a bust except for figs as a young tree has put some on while my old tree lost them all to a late frost.

[gww]

My fruit trees got hit with a freeze but still had some fruit with the asian pears being just loaded.  However, animals have since compleetly cleaned them off of fruit long before it ripened.
I do have a potted fig that has a lot of fruit on it yet and this will be the first year for it and I don't know what to expect from it.
Cheers
gww

[bwallace23350]

Speaking of figs I need to check my like ASAP

[GSF]

Well I can say this is the first year I ever lost a garden due to too much rain.

[bwallace23350]

Yep GSF the rain killed my garden. On the bright side my bees seem to be doing very well. I will get to harvest in the fall.

[jalentour]

Too much rain here.  Zucchini and summer squash the only things doing well.  Tomato, strawberry, peppers, potato not doing well.
Deer and raccoons are not helping.  Plugged a raccoon yesterday.

[bwallace23350]

We have had so much rain now that I can't even get my winter spot ready.

[tycrnp]

And there is more coming...   

[bwallace23350]

3 inches yesterday

[minz]

our last rain was the first day of summer. We have been having record heat. Garden is doing pretty good. I tore up the raspberries and am solarizing the soil before replanting them this year.

[bwallace23350]

Is it normal to have so little rain?

[220]

Just starting to think about my vegetable garden down under. With no frost until very late in autumn I still had summer crops producing 2 months after I should have had winter crops in so skipped them this year.
Has been a drier than usual winter for us but 5" this month has set things up nicely for spring. Thinking about purchasing a small green house to start seedlings in and try to get a few weeks head start on planting direct into the garden. Even with a green house still at least a month before I would consider putting seed in. We had snow Monday at the farm, weekend forecast is for temps approaching 60 but if things stay normal we can expect the odd frost into October.

[bwallace23350]

I am hoping to break grown on my winter garden within the month.

[minz]

Is it normal to have so little rain?

I think it was the 5th longest run on record. It also came with the top 90+ degree days in a row on record.
We hit 53 or 55 days before it did finally rain (one day).

[bwallace23350]

We have had a mild and wet summre for us. Mild summers down here are still really hot though. Looks like we are in the cross hairs of a lot more rain though soon.

[220]

Planted carrots and radish directly into the garden 3 weeks ago, not a real good germination but they are up and wont need thinning to heavily. Put lettuce, corn, tomato, peppers, chilli, pumpkin, gerkin into seed raising trays in a little green house at the same time.
No luck with the tomato and the peppers and chilli are a bit light but corn and pumpkins have done well, will transplant them to the garden this weekend.