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July 27th Post - 7th post

This week has been a disaster. The entire country has suffered under a heatwave...temperatures from 95 to 103 degrees. Unbearable.

Here are the last two weeks of pictures:

Beets July 12th:

Beets July 27th:

The green lettuce tray July 12th:

The green lettuce tray July 27th:

Red lettuce July 12th:

Red lettuce July 27th:

Some tomato plants July 12th:

Tomato plants July 27th:

Carrots July 12th (they haven't been hot too hard by the heat):

Carrots July 27th:

The zucchini then:

The zucchini now:

to be continued...

Continued from here:

As you can see, everything suffered this past week. But since then we have had some good rain.

The 8th post will be my last and I'll show you as many "finished" crops as I can.

-C

July 8th, 2011 post

In an effort to collapse time and give you an idea of how progress with Mom's garden has been over this season, I have created this clip for you to watch, this is the front garden plot as it has grown from spring until now July 8:

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Friday June 17th, 2011

I thought I'd start this post with a splash of color. This is the first of Mom's lillies showing off.

The beets, everything is a lot bigger this time around, as you will see...

The tomato plants are now up over the third rung of the trellis cages she puts around them. I have a shot of some tomatoes later in this post.

The peppers are a little beat up. Bugs have been chewing them and they seem dry to me.

Cucumbers will be along shortly.

Cabbage. Getting bigger.

Zucchini...these things get really big and spread out all over.

Tomatoes. mmm hmm.

Leeks. Mom will be pulling these occasionally, as needed, to make soup.

Asparagus. 'Must be about the easiest vegetable there is to grow. Mom doesn't even weed them very often.

Raspberries.  mm  hmm... They will be red in a few days. Then you won't be able to pick them fast enough.

Big onions.

Slow but sure the apples are coming around. The neighborhood kids discovered these last year. They'll be plucking them regularly in about 2-3 weeks.

Look at all those peaches. Big and colorful. You don't know what you're going to be missing.

The red leaf lettuce hasn't had any issues this year.

I don't know why, but these cabbage are much bigger than the others.

Blackberries. Just as bad as raspberries.    

This is the thyme again. It has filled out pretty good.

The green leaf lettuce has come back alright. 'Just needed some rain.

And one more splash of color. Mom's front corner plot.


That's it for Friday June 17th, 2011.

June 16th, third post today, June 4th to the weekend of June 11th.

The leaf lettuce is starting to get pretty big and I am seeing Mom put it into her garden salads and on her sandwiches as well:

The tomato plants have been given back their trellis caging and are starting to get big enough to droop a little bit. Mom will drape the branches out of the cage so the cage cross members will act as support. This will be important once the tomatoes develop and start to get large.

This row of onions behind the raspberry patch is pretty big now. Mom will start to pull one or two of these for salads. They are about 3 and a half feet tall now.

I am not sure why but last year this tray of green leaf lettuce was moved up into the shade under the apple trees. This year has been a lot milder temperatures. We've only had one day so far above 90 degrees. There is another couple pictures of these coming up. They went through some trauma which I'll show you later.

The front flower plot is thicker and thicker. Flowers soon.

This week the weather went in a new direction. We haven't gotten much rain sine the cool of last week and so Mom broke out her leaf mulching machine and hired a guy to come and help her mulch bags of leaves she saved from last Fall. Then I had to go and get more buckets of mulch and you can see here bopth leaves and mulch have been piled around the plants. This will help fertilize them and it will also hold moisture down.

The carrots are getting bigger and bigger.

More mulch and leaves mix spread around.

The leeks got mulch but no leaves mix.

The asparagus just keeps on growing. It hasn't gotton any special attention.

The peaches are filling out. 'Won't be long now before these will be ready for plucking and eating.

Its a little blurry but you can see the apples are doing okay. We won't know for a little while yet whether they will be any good for eating this year. So far it looks like the bugs aren't after them and that's a good sign.

Cabbage and onions, gettin' bigger and bigger.

The trillium are spent. Mom has placed mulch around them to fertilize them for next year.

The weather wasn't very nice this week. Not much rain fell, and with the dry air that has come through the plants are starting to dry out. Mom watered as much as she could but she missed this tray of green lettuce and I noticed it started to dry out and perish.

The news started telling about stormy weather coming across the country and how tornadoes had hit various places like St.Louis, Missourri, and this weather was heading for us. Our local news broke in during the evening keeping us aware of what was going on and we got a warning that a possible tornado was heading for us here in Corning. It didn't actually develop but we got lots of rain that night. Springfield, Massachusetts did have a torndao rip through town and make a mess of things.

After it rained though and the wind quit blowing I found the green lettuce had sprung back a little bit:

It is interesting to see the brown and dried lettuce has wilted down to next to nothing, and what was green has started to swell and turn green again.

After the rough weather Mom had me get more mulch and she started spreading it everywhere again. The front corner plot got a heap of it.

The ivy bishes both got some mulch put under them.

The beets grew alot, they are much bigger than they were a week ago.

The raspberries are starting to get some color just now. Once they get ripe they can easily be plucked off and eaten. Many will fall on the ground and birds, rabbits and squirrels will enjoy them, some will reseed and make new bushes.

And the wild onions. This batch sits right next to the outdoor gas grill. My Mom's birthday was this past week. She turned 88 years old. My brother cooked the chicken on the grill but he plopped the grill cover on these wild onions. He means well but is a slob. I picked the grill cover off of these about 3 days later and covered the grill back up.

And that's the posting for June 16th. I know that was a lot to take in. The fun starts pretty soon.