How were Your Gardens This Year

[delarenaissance]

We had a really really late spring...and now a very early killing frost! So my vegetable gardens are now done for this year. Time to clean up and prep them for next year, then plant my garlic cloves for next year's garlic harvest.

Before the frost I was able to bring in 3 unripe pumpkins, some pole beans, a few cucumbers, and lots of green tomatoes. The onions, garlic, potatoes, and broccoli crop was very good. The carrots were growing excellent, but a vole discovered the patch, so I had to pull them early to avoid having them entirely munched on.

This is the first year my blueberries haven't been able to ripen the whole crop before frost! This year has been the shortest gardening season I can remember!

[Former_Member]

I have not been able to get a garden in the ground for years. We have someone set up to plow and then everything goes wrong so they can't make it. This year I waited for someone to come plow it and finally just gave up and got out my shovel. The vines died before I could really get anything to eat... other than a couple of tomatoes and a pot of green beans. But I do feel better having actually planted something instead of just waiting!!!

[Former_Member]

Not well at all I'm afraid. California is in the middle of a critical drought so we have been limited to watering only twice a week. But I am still going to grow a small garden if I can.

[Former_Member]

Good...But Just Starting Out Beginning of Summer

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[UrbanGardenAntiques]

I haven't planted a thing yet. Fortunately, the local nurseries are bringing out the big tomato plants. Shweew, still time. :)

[Former_Member]

I never did get a garden planted this year. I figured if I can't water enough then what is the point. We are having a horrible drought here in California that people have gotten to the point where they are shaming people who use to much water.

[GreenLeafGardens]

Deb, I wish I could share some of our rain! We live in northern Ohio and we have had a very wet spring and summer so far, which is great for the gardens of course! We also had a very long,snowy, and cold winter and I'm still amazed when I look out at all the green! I have a lot of perennials, mostly in shade gardens and I love to collect new plants. My plants are doing exceptionally well this year, probably because of a nice warm June and lots of rain. Happy planting!

[sillylittlesheep]

This year we had a nice crop of runner beans, all now resting in the freezer :) however, potatoes were very poor this year compared to the previous one and I suspect it was because I did not go round with the watering can quite as much.

I had a bit of a gardening turnaround this year, as we bought a baby tortoise and she can eat a lot of native weeds so I am creating a tortoise edible garden now and I bought some seeds of weeds like plantain and am trying to grow them in our flat over winter.

The tomatoes were really late and now they all froze. Carrots failed totally.