🍅 July 2018 Gardening Journal - WizStead Post #26
It's July 21st, 2018. Here's an update on how my garden is doing.
It's been a crazy year for gardening. We had late frosts, cool weather and even snow when we normally plant here. Then it turned dry. Germination has been terrible. My cousin has dug up some seed he's planted and they didn't swell up or anything. Look just like when he planted them. ::shrug:: ??? I had to replant 2 of the 3 varieties of corn I planted. A LOT of the beans didn't come up. Please don't listen to the next statement, because I've often laughed when I saw zucchini plants for sale, and said, "If you can't raise zucchini from seed, maybe you shouldn't be gardening!" Well, I have no green zucchini! Planted 2 hills, twice and nothing!
The Good
Harvesting...
Tomatoes Tomatoes Tomatoes! woohoo!
The 3 Sisters
Soon to harvest
Cucumbers germinated great!
Melons looking good!
The ugly
The drought might have took quite a few of my beans.
I've been working a lot of overtime, so haven't watered as much as I had hoped...
Something about these Italian peppers. It almost like they are shriveled up. Not much "meat" on them. I don't think it's a water thing, the jalapenos and Hungarian peppers are doing OK.
Other posts since my last gardening journal
- Harvesting peas & crookneck squash
- I wasn't real happy with the peas. They were good, just not very productive. They were also only about 1 foot tall. I'm not sure of the variety. It was some left overs I had put in a baggie with no description. Hopefully my fall peas do better!
- Daylilies
- Harvested cauliflower & cabbage update
- A July 4th tomato
- Zinnias
- BBQ squash
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Wow, @wizardave. It looks like you have your own little tomato heaven :0)
And so many red ones already. We could harvest only 2 so far, but more are shifting colours every day.
It appears the drought is affecting gardens all over the world right now. I've been spoiling my plants by watering them too often. Now their roots has gone lazy, so with this temperatures I need to water them every day.
That is something that is on my 'to improve'-list for next year: train my plants so they can go without watering for a longer period of time :0)
True statement!
I have been watering, but with all the overtime I've been getting, not as much as is needed...
Drip irrigation
Maybe flood some areas
??? ???
We do have a drip irrigation system installed in the greenhouse, but because a lot of the veggies are grown in containers, that is not as convenient as it may sound, lol.
I see a lot of people say they have troubles with drip irrigation. I may opt for soaker hoses. Of course, the weather here in Missouri... Probably next year will be wet wet wet! haha
Same here. Last year it rained all summer long. This year, we had one short splash of rain in 5 or 6 weeks. It'll probably be freezing next year, lol.
We've got some cherry tomatoes already coming on and being picked, and some zucchini and cucumbers. The larger tomatoes aren't ripening as fast, though. That's pretty good for all the strange weather you've had.
We've got some baby watermelon right now. How large would you say yours are right now. It's tough to tell from the pictures.
I think all of our pepper plants are doing well, and the onions—too bad I'm not that big of fan because they're absolutely growing the best of everything in the garden. :)
The sugar watermelons are only about 3-4 inches. The big watermelons are about 6 inches. The cantaloupe are mostly up to size, just need to ripen.
I've never had great luck with onions. This time probably half have died. Do you have a secret? I'm thinking maybe I planted them a bit deep. Only a few are busting the soil. I've pulled a bit of soil off some of them...
Oh, okay, so those watermelon are quite a bit larger than ours are. How big will the larger ones get? Our smaller ones didn't do so well last year. I wish we had some cantaloupe. That would be great. Maybe next year.
The only thing I know is my wife planted a bunch of the onions around the edge of the garden box so basically encircling the pepper plants. We also bought them as starts from a temporary stand in the parkinglot of the mall, and then we bought some local organic soil at home depot we'd never tried before. Apparently, they took right to it.
The first ones out of the garden are pretty large and the rest of them have been busting the soil as you described it for a week or so. I think the whole lot is ready for picking but she's only got the two out. She said she already ate one, so that must make three then. :)