How's Everyone's Gardens Doing?

[bwerth42]

Here in western Kansas (and much of the midwest) rainfall has been abundant. That really helps make a garden look good without too much additional work.

Cabbage patch


Onion patch


2 rows of potatoes and some peppers in the foreground


Tomatoes



Wildflowers



Could be a big harvest!

[barkonbutts]

So far so good, plants looking good, few weeks away till we start to get harvest...

[SMOKE FREAK]

Here in mid Kansas we have had so much rain that I haven't been able to do too much weeding...Grass is taking over...Got 2 more inches yesterday...

Tomatoes are doing well...Peppers took a hit right after I planted them...Temps in the 30's stunted them bad...Okra is gonna kick ass and not so sure about the cukes...Limas are climbing their trellis nicely and will surely give us a huge harvest...

[BBQ Engineer]

Lost several tomatoes...in all seriousness, they drowned. Picked all of the fruit from the remaining plants in hopes of sending energy back to the plants. They were going kick ass and then 27 of 31 days with appreciable rain. Damn.

[bwerth42]

I've got family who farm west of Wichita. Their wheat is ripe and ready to cut but they keep getting big rains. Trying to figure how to put pontoons on their combines!

[Ryan]

Due to the wet may I got mine in late. Got 3/4 of it covered with grass clippings. I've got a major crab grass problem in the garden, so for once I'm staying ahead of it. Could be doing a lot of canning this year. I bought 18 tomatoes first part of may. Then it proceeded to rain for a week. By the time it dried enough to till I had thought they'd died. So I bought 18 more. I was storing them outside next to the strawberries I need to plant. Strawberries were looking tough so I water them all. Sure enough the tomatoes grew back. So I found room and now have 36 of them

My recently planted orchard is doing good. My Stella cherries put a couple on. It was nice sampling them, but it pissed Nolan off cause he wanted more. That's hard to explain to a 2 year old. Blackberries are starting to put some on too.

Its been wet here too, got 4 inches Thurs, and woke up to another inch. Supposed to rain all week.

[SMOKE FREAK]

I've got family who farm west of Wichita. Their wheat is ripe and ready to cut but they keep getting big rains. Trying to figure how to put pontoons on their combines!

Indeed the wheat is ready...Gonna lose a lot of it by the time they get into the fields...

[bwerth42]

Indeed the wheat is ready...Gonna lose a lot of it by the time they get into the fields...

Guys in parts of Texas and Oklahoma have already abandoned some wheat due to rain damage. Others have harvested some with serious quality problems (low test weight and even some kernels sprouting in the head). Some of those farmers were looking at their best wheat in years due to drought over the last five years. Now, too much water is the problem.

[PitRow]

still haven't gotten around to setting up a proper garden, but the couple strawberry plants are starting to produce a couple ripe ones a day. Mmm. The fig tree and the blueberry bush are loaded with green ones, so should be good crop of those this year provided the weather holds out and the birds don't get them.

[Richtee]

My one pepper plant (Nu-Mex Twilight) I over-wintered is covered with flowers :{)

that's all, folks

[Bearcarver]

Second year without a garden for us.

All we ever grew was Tomatoes for BLTs anyway, and I'm just not up to getting the stepladder out every day to pick them!!!

Bear

[bwerth42]

Second year without a garden for us.

All we ever grew was Tomatoes for BLTs anyway, and I'm just not up to getting the stepladder out every day to pick them!!!

Bear

Step ladder? Holy cow! How high do you grow them?

[Slanted88]

got ten mater plants set-up in the alaska grow bucket system...man me & Louie got a mess of maters on our hands!
http://www.alaskagrowbuckets.com/

[Bearcarver]

Step ladder? Holy cow! How high do you grow them?

Here plants were almost full grown. Mrs Bear was full grown in this picture too, at 5' 9" tall:




Bear

[bwerth42]

Here plants were almost full grown. Mrs Bear was full grown in this picture too, at 5' 9" tall:




Bear

Wow...I see why you need a ladder. That is about 4 or 5 of my plants fully grown!