2026 gardens

[DJ54]

Baled mine yesterday, got 14 round bales off of 3.5 acres. Got 18 last year but quality this year is much better. Red Clover was thick and really close to 36" tall. Last year after second cutting we got drought condition here. Clover grew but not enough to make a 3rd cutting. Looks like the clover reseeded itself which made some very nice hay this year. Kids are going to eat well this winter..!!

 

[SONNY]

trying to haul water to the garden now---MIGHT save part of the onions and tatoes, --a few early cabbage look promising but the rest of the garden is history for this year from the looks of it. Cant grow garden without water. AND no rain here forever---just hot blistering heat.

 

[DJ54]

Finally got my tomatoes, peppers, brussels sprouts and cabbage set out Monday evening and yesterday afternoon. Rows are 6' apart so I can get my water wagon between rows in case Mother Nature shuts of the water tap. I may have overdone it a bit trying several new hybrids of tomatoes and some extra cabbage. Ended up with 14 dozen tomatoes and around 23 dozen cabbage plants. Still playing with the idea of selling bulk cabbage later this summer.

Weather service has been predicting 70%-80% chances of rain/thunder showers all week so spread urea on the hay field on Monday morning. So far only light sprinkles and not enough to set it in. At $700 a ton, sure would be nice to see a good 1/2" -3/4" of rain. Week before last when predicting 60%+ chances of rain we got 5.5"+ or rain. Never fails...

 

[SONNY]

1.6" of rain here over the last couple days ----now 90+ heat and humidity back so the ground will scorch again. --- never did fill the cracks in the ground. The lady over on the other side of the field got over 4" in same session. Super spotty over the county too so hope the plants get growing good before the water is gone again.
Had to fix a flat to the big tanker ---somebody didnt do a good enough plug in it so i had to redo it---we see if this one holds or not.

 

[Barebones]

Pumpkin plants were not doing well. Some leaves turning yellow, except for a few plants that were sewn in soil where I had burned a pile of last years dead vines, etc. What a difference! The plants in the burned soil are thriving and have easily grown well beyond all others - and, the leaves are all dark green. So, yesterday I mixed in some wood ash around all the other plants. Today's rain should bring the yellowing plants back to health.

 

[Barebones]

Harvested my German hard-neck garlic today. About 75 plants. Planted in October of last year, and as usual, they all came up! Removed the scapes a few weeks ago to allow the bulbs to get large. Scapes are the "flowers" that show up in June and are a delicacy. Now they must be dried so that they can be stored properly. It can be eaten now but will not store well without drying. I hang them up in the garage and air-dry them.

 

[v w]

Wrong again. I thought the spinach would simply bolt. We have had 2 pickings with big beautiful leaves. Last week I was watering. Today I may be able to work in garden again after lots of rain. At least everything is growing well. Vern

 

[Jonathan]

I have had no luck with apple trees over the years so about 12 years ago I planted a few pear trees...Bartlet and Sickle. They have grown well and tall and I get a million flowers every spring....and about 6 pears every year. I have pruned, not pruned to no avail. I even verbally told them I would chain up the 3020 to them and yank them. Nothing.

Some pears trees you have to plant in pairs of same identical species to pollinate them each other

 

[Don McCombs]

You need to either keep honey bees or provide encouragement for other pollinators to get your blooms well pollinated.