you're right, gardening is a challenge. I planted my tomatoes a couple of weeks ago in their Wall-O-Waters, thinking that would kep them warmenough, as they usually do. nope. WE're back to a "normal" Montana June (haven't had one in 7-8 yrs). IOt's been cool &rainy/windy all but 2 days since. Poor plants are alive, but definitely not thriving. Snow level is supposed to drop to 5000 ft. tonight (we're at 4000), so they're going to be even more stressed. I've covered them, but who knows if they'll live. Somehow I doubt I'll get many ripe tomatoes before the fall frosts.
Welcome, Signi, glad to see you here.
It seems like this year is being more extreme than some. I finally pulled up my peas this morning because it's getting hot now. They usually only last until mid-May. They were the climbing sugar snaps, which my grandson dearly loves. I think he ate half of them by going out to the garden and helping himself. The birds got some of them, where they could reach from sitting on the trellises, which were two round wire tomato cages stacked top to top and tied together. They were leaning against my concrete block wall on the west side of my yard.
I have sand drifts in my rock garden on the east end of my house, to the point that it is almost buried. We have had more dust storms than usual. I wonder how to clean that up without digging it up and doing it over? Maybe a shop vac with a screen on the nozzle to keep the river rock from coming up too???? Has anybody else found a good solution for this?
Hi Signi - high desert Nevada here as well. We are going to plant corn in the garden today. Onions and potatoes are already in. It MIGHT be safe to put tomatoes out - maybe!
I've found, over the years, that anything that grows UNDERGROUND does well here! Beets, onions, carrots, potatoes - it's the ABOVE ground plants that have issues. Good luck.
agricola
I guess I'm farther south than most. I can't plant root crops until monsoon season here. They just bolt to seed if they're planted earlier. Fortunately, it looks like monsoon season will be here soon. The weather pattern is changing.
