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I can't find the original thread, so I started another.

How is everyone's gardens. Psalm and I have have record setting heat without any rain in our area. I've held off on planting my tomato seedlings and am keeping them in a rather shady spot. I'll transplant after a good rain.

My green beans are growing great, but I'm watering daily. I love hot weather, but would appreciate a little of God's water now and then.

I can always replant if necessary.
 
I just came in from watering. I got the garden, greenhouse and about a third of the fruit trees. Still have grapes, blueberries and the rest of the trees to do. Normally I try to water in the am but with the same weather as you have, hot and dry, I figured the water will soak in better in the evening. Anyways, everything is growing great. All the tomato transplants survived and are just starting to produce small green tomatoes now. I planted about a thousand tomato seeds too and they seem to all have sprouted so I really need to go thin them down now. Hopefully I will be able to can a lot this year. Am about to pick peas for the first time, have been getting salads and greens for a long while now, need to pick all the beets and pickle them ASAP. The broccoli produced but I left it too long and it has bolted allready. Oh well. Just not enough hours in the day.
 
I just came in from watering. I got the garden, greenhouse and about a third of the fruit trees. Still have grapes, blueberries and the rest of the trees to do. Normally I try to water in the am but with the same weather as you have, hot and dry, I figured the water will soak in better in the evening. Anyways, everything is growing great. All the tomato transplants survived and are just starting to produce small green tomatoes now. I planted about a thousand tomato seeds too and they seem to all have sprouted so I really need to go thin them down now. Hopefully I will be able to can a lot this year. Am about to pick peas for the first time, have been getting salads and greens for a long while now, need to pick all the beets and pickle them ASAP. The broccoli produced but I left it too long and it has bolted allready. Oh well. Just not enough hours in the day.

Sounds like your gardens are doing great. It went from Winter to Summer here so all of my salad stuff came up then bolted within a week. I'll try for some late Fall cool crops.
 
Sounds like your gardens are doing great. It went from Winter to Summer here so all of my salad stuff came up then bolted within a week. I'll try for some late Fall cool crops.
My radishes, spinach and broccoli all bolted much too fast. Normally I would try saving seeds but honestly I may just compost them to make room for something else.
 
I just spent about two hours working on my irrigation line that runs along the edge of the property. Still not working yet.... lots of the long run are above ground and freeze over winter, so I do a patch, turn it on, do another patch, etc. I will get it going tomorrow and start watering the blueberries and grapes . So far this year we had good rainfall so I put this off until now. Everything is looking parched and needs a little help. One of these days I’m going to bury the darned line....
 
I really wish I could share the wealth with you guys. . . We have been having way too much rain. I have lost most of my squash type plants. I still have some, . . . .but my green beans and tomatoes have been doing great.
 
We've had a very wet and cool Spring here after heavy snows in February. Todays high was 59 degs and we're having a thunderstorm right now. Last night was the first night that I didn't build a fire in the wood stove.
We don't get near the rain fall that many of you get back east or down south, but so far it's been enough to keep everything green around here.
The ground is still too wet to do any tilling in the garden. Normally we'd be watering every day by now.
Luckily we haven't had any frost for a couple of weeks.
 
This years garden is small. I planted a few small box gardens of tomatoes, peppers, onions,, oakra. and put some assorted old seeds in a row of the main field garden to see if any take root. I will be planting beats this year, I love fresh beets.
 
Last year was a squash, pumpkin and cucumber year. This year my cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes are doing great, although I did plant a lot less cucumbers. I can count 12 - 13 tomatoes on each of my Roma plants and a good number on my others. I will get a lot of cushaw's and butternut, but I got some squash bugs this season and what I get is all I will get. I really don't want to use chemicals, so will pull once everything is ready and feed to the goats. Once that is done I will replant but will use a spray of dish soap and oil to prevent reinfestation.
 
Last year was a squash, pumpkin and cucumber year. This year my cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes are doing great, although I did plant a lot less cucumbers. I can count 12 - 13 tomatoes on each of my Roma plants and a good number on my others. I will get a lot of cushaw's and butternut, but I got some squash bugs this season and what I get is all I will get. I really don't want to use chemicals, so will pull once everything is ready and feed to the goats. Once that is done I will replant but will use a spray of dish soap and oil to prevent reinfestation.

It's tough. Since I have bees, I can't use chemicals. I've seen some holes on my bean leaves.
 

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