Garden update, and it’s not looking good
After the cyclone came through and blew my garden to pieces, I was hoping it might recover if I cared for it.
The bad news is that I have lost my peas. The stalks were all crushed and now it is just slowly dying. I was hoping that some of them might survive, but it is looking like a total loss now. We only managed to get one meal and a couple of pea pods off it before the storm, so I’m really disappointed about that.
I like peas.
My corn is struggling along. I’m not sure if it will die or not. I’ve got them staked up, but they are looking pretty bedraggled and torn. I’ll keep watering them and giving them encouragement and see what happens, but I’m pretty sure we won’t be eating any corn from the garden this year.
The rest of my plants seem to be doing ok. The rhubarb is still limp and pathetic. But it is really hard to kill rhubarb, so I’m sure it will come back.
The lettuce is fine as is the rosemary. And of course all the plants that were in posts are ok because I brought them inside during the worst of it.
the fig tree is doing ok
There is talk of another cyclone brewing just north of the country, so it may not be the end for my poor garden just yet. I do hope it stays calm here (well, calm in Wellington terms) so my plants can recover. I put a lot of effort into them this year and to see them blown away like this is frustrating.
Who would be a farmer?
Check out my stories here on Steemit
Running Deer
Running Deer - part 1
Running Deer - How legends are born
Charlie Rabbit
Meet Charlie Rabbit
Charlie tides up
Charlie Rabbit and Margery Mouse
Charlie Rabbit and Margery Mouse make music
Little Peppers Adventures
Runaway Rabbit and the hungry fox
Maybe and the land of purple rainbows – A Little Peppers adventure
How Pappa Pepper and Monster Truck the Pepper got their wild hogs - a Little Peppers Adeventure
Dark Angel Regiment of the Space Marines - Mission Files
First Squad Sniper Elite - Zaresith mission
Other stories
Also don't forget to check out my Dad's blog
Who else can tell you stories about impersonating an officer, stealing a military aircraft to go on a booze run, or steal military aircraft and go on an unsanctioned bombing run - and that's all before he turned 18!
Check out @len.george and find out what other madness he got up to!
Are you new to Steemit and trying to figure out what it's all about?
Head over to: https://www.steemithelp.net/. It's the best place to get a handle on what the platform is all about.
R.I.P. Peas :*(. * Upvoted *
thanks. I'm thinking of having a pea funeral in the weekend. But I'm not sure I can face the emotional torment. ;-)
Thats sad hope it recovers, also crazy you have a garden at this time of year, I have 4 inches of snow on my car and its 16 degrees Fahrenheit right now.
thanks. Yup. That whole, living in a different hemisphere thing ;-)
We have had a really hot summer this year, and now the storms are lining up to give us a hammering. but it was crazy how fast everything was growing just before Christmas.
It's cooled down just a bit now, but it is still a lot warming than most summers.
Do you normally have snow and freezing temperatures this time of year where you are?
Yeah its snowing alot and freezing, dec jan feb mar, I live in USA western P.A.
wow, that really does sound cold. It gets cold here in 'not summer' i.e. any month that is not February. But cold for us means around 10-15 degrees Celsius . It has only snowed twice in the twenty odd years I've been here, and that was a light dusting.
It was pretty cool though.
This summer has been really hot right from the start and it seems to be continuing, which is really unusual for us. The downside is the number of cyclones that are lining up in the Pacific and getting ready to come for a visit.
Yeah we dont get any storms like that here, its just crazy how the world works because its winter here now but summer there I never know that.
hehe you learn something new every day huh?
The world is a big and interesting place with so much to see and learn about. I'd be quite happy to live on a continent where it wasn't so windy all the time. ;-)
Keep them well watered, with a bit of slow release fert, out of the wind if you can, They will grow, it is a good season, just look how the weeds are doing.
I live in Wellington. Out of the wind involves being in a different city hehehe
try wind cloth, it will help a lot, there is still some up here if you remember next trip.
hehehehe I DID have wind cloth up. It's all gone now, probably somewhere in the South Island by now.
A greenhouse may be useful to protect you green assets :D
Yeah my wife said that. But I think the wind would have destroyed that too.
Next year I think I'll do more planting in post so I can put them inside during storms.
I think we are going to be getting more and more of them as the climate changes.
Greenhouse made of blast resistant plastic? :D
It sad the climate is going crazy, I've seen that Cape Town is running out of water.
that might do it. With a big lump of concrete on top to stop the whole thing lifting off and going into orbit ;-)
Wow I didn't know about Cape Town. The weather sure is changing all over the world. The skeptics can deny it all they want, but the weather doesn't care. It doesn't need their approval to change, and no matter the cause of it, natural or man made, it will affect all of us.
I'm allergic to climate deniers, they are either retarded or they are on somebody's payroll.
I think I might do a post about this later on if I get time.
It seems to me the whole climate change denier thing is about who to blame. It doesn't matter if climate change is a natural cycle of we caused it. the weather is changing and we need to change with it or die.
those who are leading the debate to say it's not our fault or it's not happening, are just being childish. They're afraid the world might sue them for changing the planet or something.
I'm sorry for your garden! I hope it will recover. You have beautiful plants :)
Thanks for that. Most of it looks like it will survive. It's just the two veggies I like the most, peas and corn, that took the worst beating. The damn eggplant is doing fine (I don't really like eggplant. I put it in for my wife who does like it). :-)
I like peas too. Too bad they didn’t survive. The corn might make it. I have seen some really beat up corn survive and do OK.
Yeah I'm gutted about the peas. They were doing so well too. The corn is struggling along. I think it might make it long enough to give us some cobs.
My wife bought some pea tendrils the other day, so I'm going to see if they will grow. They taste just like peas! Who would have thought it?