here in Eastern Washington we're having one of our typical very dry summers, no substantial rain since early June...thank God we've got a good aquifer....
but, we're had garlic, lettuce, beans, tomatoes, a few cukes, and we have a few onions, pink banana squash, trombone squash, and egg plant coming along nicely....hope they finish developing before we get too cool.. Peppers too....
also we'll dig up the potatoes in a few weeks...corn, not so good, but we'll have a few ears...
and hops....boy do we have hops...
Hops...I’d like to kill the hops my husband planted - they’re worse than morning glory (small backyard).
I have decided to grow additional garlic this year-wish I could remember what I ordered several years ago - it has done great and gives me very nice big cloves-kinda looking to see if I can find it - I keep a file of internet orders for each year-so If I filed it, I should have it.
I remember I ordered 2 different kinds. One did poorly and one did great.
I’m going to plant a couple of tomatoes that I collected last year and some that I just received for next year’s planting and see which ones do the best indoors this winter.
Since I chickened out on planting the corn this late - 55 days to maturity, I am going just use the bed I had prepared for the corn for the extra garlic.
I also need to start getting the winter wheat beds prepped. One of the only things that I have successfully grown in the space that is too close to the Walnut tree.
It apparently doesn’t get too bothered by the toxin, and gets enough sun since the leaves fall off and don’t return too early in Spring.
One of those beds is currently being used for compost, so I just won’t plant that till spring. Maybe a quick crop that matures quickly and is cold tolerant- Will have to think about it and refresh my memory on what I can plant that doesn’t succumb to walnut toxicity.