2022 garden season

[ScottyD'sdad]

Finally getting rain! 3 1/2 inches, last week in August, and 4 1/2 inches, so far, in this storm, that started yesterday afternoon. Almost replacing the loss in the drought.
Ed

[Don McCombs]

Too little, too late. But, still better than nothing.

[SamsFarm]

This is my first year to try planting basil.

I picked almost a bushel, destemmed it and got it dried.
I ended up with about 1/2 a pound of dried basil.

My first year trying parsley too, but I have not picked any of it yet!

Had my first tomato Sammich(s) yesterday.....

I was a bit slow going this year and did not start my tomato and pepper seeds till may 5.

[Peter Person]

Sort of gardening related.
Spent some time out on Cape Cod this week. Went for a hike out to Race Point and discovered a motherlode of Beach Plums. Picked enough to make a batch of Beach Plum jam.

Found a “stoner” at the Wellfleet Flea Market that worked perfect to get the pits out.

Wild cranberries need another couple of weeks to fully ripen.

[ScottyD'sdad]

Nice find. Wish I could eat jams and jellies but thanks to Uncle Sam giving me diabetes, I have to lay off the sugar, even donuts!
Ed

[Don McCombs]

I’ve known a couple of stoners over the years, but they didn’t look like that.

[SONNY]

Plums are good,---we used to get wild ones here til they bulldozed out the timber so they could get 1 more row of corn.
Been a wild summer, ---storms, damaged crops, etc. We are in the process of salvaging whatever we can and diggin sweet potatoes. Got some pix. but will have to resize them before they will post!

[SamsFarm]

Had our first frost Monday.
I was ready with the frost blankets though.


Been getting my fill of tomato sammiches.

Got 2 rows of potatoes brought in yesterday.

4 rows to go!

Time to start canning tomato sauce and tomato juice!

[Don McCombs]

First frost forecast here tomorrow night.

[ScottyD'sdad]

Frost forecast for here, too. Picked the last of the peppers, 2 1/2 buckets full, and a half bucket of Jalipinos. Sons took most of them. Garden is about doen for the year.

Ed

[Peter Person]

We’ve had 2 years of lean strawberry production due to a vole infestation.
2020 we put new deer fencing up and last year added a composite board and chicken wire down 6” below the surface. We also used a variety of pesticides, but they still got in. Combined with some sort of fungus, we decided to start over.
18’ x 25’ area.
Digging out the old dirt by hand was time consuming, so I put the IH100 grader blade on and made fairly quick work of removing 8” of dirt. Just need to finish grade the bottom.
Then, install 1/2” x 1/2” hardware cloth across the bottom and up the sides.
Then, shovel in the new dirt.
New strawberry plants in April from Nourse Farms in Whately, MA.

[Don McCombs]

Good luck, Peter.

[ScottyD'sdad]

Nourse has the best quality plants I've seen. Should do well with them. (If the voles decide to share)

Ed

[Peter Person]

Nourse has the best quality plants I've seen. Should do well with them. (If the voles decide to share)

Ed

We (Donna) buys all her strawberry, raspberry/kane, and asparagus from Nourse. They are excellent!

[Stanton]

Nourse has the best quality plants I've seen. Should do well with them. (If the voles decide to share)

Ed

We (Donna) buys all her strawberry, raspberry/kane, and asparagus from Nourse. They are excellent!

Hope all your efforts pay back huge dividends in the coming years!