Honeysuckle Garden
Depending on how you look at our weather, it either is a honey of a summer or it sucks!
We waited all spring for spring-like weather, now that summer is in full swing we are getting our spring-like weather. I suppose we might just skip summer and head into fall. While the rest of the country bakes and broils, we are growing moss on our backs full time. I figured it was about time to share some miscellaneous garden photos of our slowly progressing gardens.
No whimsy here, just straight-up farmstead gardening. Potatoes, sweet corn, dry beans, carrots, garlic, parsnips for seeds, parsnips, naked seed pumpkins , winter squash and weeds.
Potato.
Parsnip seed.
Parsnips.
Not much whimsy here, either, except the cosmic pipe. Onions, peas, carrots, beets, rutabagas, mangels, beans, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, pole beans, celeriac, summer squash, lettuce, cucumbers, annual herbs, and weeds.
Onions.
Celeriac.
Volunteer chard.
Broccoli.
Cabbage.
Pole beans.
Zucchini.
Calendula.
Maks and Trace.
Raining cats and dogs, again. And we have reached 57°F today. Sigh.
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Last week we had heat indexes in the 120°s. This week our AC failed and took three days to fix. Thankfully, it was “only” in the hundreds. I’d trade for 57° any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Beautiful plants! You broccoli and cabbage are so…un-holey!
Peggy, yes the cool is much better than the heat. We can always take off a layer if we need to!
I’m pretty confident that we are heading right on into fall. There’s no other explanation for temps in the 70s and rain in July.
Teri, it feels like fall, it’s been a tough spring, we have no fruit to speak of either
Building a fire in July is pretty strange!
I know the grass always seems greener on the other side, but our garden is also slow growing this year and we are hitting the 90′s all week. I’ll take the slow growing and 57!
Allison, I just want enough dry weather to get some hay in for winter. The garden will produce something even if it is just greens and cool weather crops. The hay is a different story!
Oh my goodness! The opposite here – Extremely hot and dry! I don’t think we’ve had more than 1/2″ of rain at a time for weeks and even that sprinkle only every 4-5 days. Temps over 90F every day! For us, up here in the north, that’s extreme! Hand watering all the gardens takes up most of my time these days. I’d love a few cool rainy days now!
Sheryl, we won’t be worrying about forest fires so much this summer, at least not yet. It will probably get hot here pretty soon and we’ll be missing this cool weather
I’m glad to see that my pole beans aren’t the only slow growing runts around. They have just now reached my shoulders, climbing a makeshift trellis.
We are 60 degrees and cloudy just south of Seattle. My H tried to use the weather as an excuse not to mow the front yard today.
I calmly reminded him that cloudy doesn’t mean raining!
Lindsey, my first bean planting succumbed to the cold, this is the second round. Hopefully they’ll mature in time…it’s sure to get warm soon, right?
Awesome garden photos…..especially the last one!
Chris, thanks! Those two are friends when they think no one is watching
I’m really not sure which is worse, cool summer temps and rain or unbearable humidity and heat!! My garden is melting here and I’m dripping in sweat when I do go out to water! And winter will be here before we know it!!
Deb, I would venture a guess that the heat is worse. We can at least get warm, it’s much harder to cool down. A little moderation on either end would be appreciated!
We are south of you over the CA border, Siskiyou County. Same weather, We are going for a greenhouse for next summer. Your greenhouse has inspired us. Though we are at 3,000′ and more of a challenge.. Our tomatoes are sad, rain and cool do not help. Our corn is about 2′ high, our bush beans are just blooming, etc.We are a month behind. On another note our broilers did well 47 our of 50. Ranging from 5 to 7 & 1/2 lbs. Success and hard work. You have a beautiful garden and we know what you are doing to achieve all that bounty. You are busy, busy. Maks & Trace are an added treat I am sure your other sidekick is close by, too.
Bev, you won’t regret the greenhouse, it sure makes a difference. I saw an orange tomato hiding tonight when I was picking greens for dinner. Now a little sun and maybe some others will follow suit, and the peppers are setting on like crazy. My corn is only 2″ high! Sure to be fodder instead of corn for us. The weather is what it is, I really am worried about hay – some dry weather would be nice, and some rain somewhere else where it is needed.
I can’t figure out this weather, its either feast or famine, nothing seems to be working out for almost everyone.
You farm is beautiful, by the way.
Linda
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Linda, I know what you mean. Just sitting in a holding pattern here waiting for a dry spell to put up hay. Seems odd to have a fire in late July.
Your farm is beautiful too!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a decent haymaking weather for you. We had a very hot and moist June. The 80+ in the mornings was unusual here. Around midsummer there was a four day window to make great hay, so those who cut it early on the first morning and baled and hauled under roof the fourth evening did great, but there hasn’t been a decent spell since. July’s turning out cool. There’re enough showers to spoil a harvest of hay, but not enough to make much difference otherwise. Good luck with you hay!
Oh our weather has caused all types of trouble w/ our gardens this year. We were way too wet and cool in April and May so our gardens got a very slow start, and now everything is burning up. I water every other day, and it just isn’t doing much good. We are still expected to be in the high 90′s through next week. I just want to till everything under
Oh nooo, the garden is so behind
I truly hope you get some good growing weather before those shadows cover the garden any more.
beautiful, beautiful dirt, Nita! I’m so jealous!
Hayden, it didn’t start out that way, your turn is coming!
What beautiful animals you have. And a great vegie patch too!
Rachel, Thanks!
I noticed your brassica’s are not covered? Do you not have trouble with Cabbage Moth? They are rampant this year in my garden!
GH, not yet, I just saw the first moth yesterday, I’ll probably use Bt if they get troublesome, but I normally only cover root maggot prone veggies, like Hakurei turnips, daikon and spanish radishes, otherwise we don’t get too many caterpillars, and I have enjoyed not using any row cover this year!