This weather has been crazy. I might have to rig up or buy a mini greenhouse.
(I don’t really have a garden-just the odd squash and tomato or two and herbs tucked into corners of my small, suburban rental yard)
Between the rain and the cold things have been abysmal.
I was looking forward to my garlic crop but the weather has made it rusty beyond repair and it probably won’t bulb.
The cold snap put my green bean seedlings in a state of suspended animation that they never recovered from. Same thing with the cucumbers.
I kept replanting marigolds that were being eaten and finally got a couple of good ones but the cold killed those too.
New seeds popping up and green beans and cucumbers have been replanted and are starting to come up.
Only a few of my San Marzanos made it. I have them in the ground next to some two liter bottles with holes in them so I can keep them hydrated in summer. So far, so good.
I have about 13 squash plants that made it so they are in the small hugel bed with water bottle insurance.
I forgot about the grapevines. One red seedless I almost gave up on resurrected itself after about 3 or 4 nonbearing years. The concord has a bunches and bunches if the tree rats, mice and raccoons don’t get them.
Not real good at this but I keep on trying every year.
:)
(Thank you Diane in the Driftless!)
Cali; Congrats on the grapes anyway!
Try figs! (If you like them!) You can grow them in pots or put them in the ground. They will tolerate heat
Since Kansas gets hot (although not too much this year) I am going to try them. I think I can make them work. I’ll just have to bring them in in the winter. (6b...can get down to -5 on occasion) If I move I can take them with me (At least the ones in pots!)
(Time for bed! Good night!
And it is quite revealing that when temps are above normal for some period of time (which long-range forecast almost always seem to predict) then we hear about it, but when below normal then there is silence. Or that also is blamed on AGW.
I have a mini green house that works good. when I’m finished for the year it folds up and fits in a bag.