The Garden Chronicles

It has been a curious year for sure for gardening.  Cold and rain.  Rain and cold.  Three additional inches of rain in the past week alone.  And cold.   

Some of my gardening efforts have taken it all in stride as the onions, potatoes, green beans and peas are thriving.  Alternatively, I think it has impacted the proper germination of other veggie seeds and stunted several of my tomato plants. Tomatoes don’t like cold but you’d think lettuce, spinach, beets and radishes would love the cool conditions.  It has to be the abundance of precipitation.  Seed rot perhaps?   

I’ve had to re-sow spinach, lettuce, beets and radishes three times and I’m hoping the third time is a charm.  Pumpkins were replanted yesterday.   

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Tomato plants – stunted in the foreground and a healthy couple in the background   

Peas and spuds are the dominant features     

Sweet peppers in the foreground  and Blue Lake green beans above    

Nothing better than a fresh-picked radish