I may never get this garden in ...

[Farmington]

With all of the rain this year, the ground has been virtually un-workable. We get a couple days away from workable soil, and boom, it rains (pours) again. It's nothing but muck. What's the latest I can get my maters, and peppers in the ground and still get a harvest this season in northeast Ohio? I have onion sets to put in, as well as started tomatoes, and pepper plants. I also wanted to plant radish, kholrabi, and beet seeds, and winter squash. This really stinks!

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Man! I'm in the same situation. We have had two days with sunshine and I got out there at 5:30 this morning to do some tilling. 2" below the surface the soil is still very wet.

About 6 weeks ago we had a sunny day and, thinking that nice weather was upon us, I put my 4" tall cherished heirloom tomatoes out in the shade to start hardening them off. I got distracted and allowed the sun to hit them and they were seriously sunburned. Most of them died and some are still about 4" tall right now. I have re-potted them and I'm starting the hardening process all over again.

This is not a good start for this season!!!!!!!

 

[vfem]

This is why my front garden still is so undone. Its either 90 degrees out or the ground is still muddy wet. Only my raised beds in the backyard have been done and that's because they dry quickly.

Its going to be one of those years I'm afraid. :/

 

[Collector]

We are in the same boat here, crazy weather pattern this spring! I tilled an area 3 weeks ago to plant pole beans that was seriously muddy. Planted the beans anyway, some have come up, most have not. I think part of the problem is when the mud dried it became super hard and stopped the seeds from coming thru GRRRRR!
Good luck with your garden!

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

We've finally hit a run of luck after 3 weeks of really cold, wind and rain.

That was of course after we warmed up and I planted my garden. Most of my stuff died with 100% mortality. I had a few larger pumpkins (maybe 30% of what I planted) survive, that was it out of cukes, squash, pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe.

We do what we can, when we can. Thinking about not planting anything this year makes me sad. Even if I have to plant nasty Lowe's seedlings after the rest of my transplants die, I'll do it.

 

[4grandbabies]

We've finally hit a run of luck after 3 weeks of really cold, wind and rain.

That was of course after we warmed up and I planted my garden. Most of my stuff died with 100% mortality. I had a few larger pumpkins (maybe 30% of what I planted) survive, that was it out of cukes, squash, pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe.

We do what we can, when we can. Thinking about not planting anything this year makes me sad. Even if I have to plant nasty Lowe's seedlings after the rest of my transplants die, I'll do it.

Thats the spirit Super-do not go down in defeat!!

 

[Collector]

We've finally hit a run of luck after 3 weeks of really cold, wind and rain.

That was of course after we warmed up and I planted my garden. Most of my stuff died with 100% mortality. I had a few larger pumpkins (maybe 30% of what I planted) survive, that was it out of cukes, squash, pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe.

We do what we can, when we can. Thinking about not planting anything this year makes me sad. Even if I have to plant nasty Lowe's seedlings after the rest of my transplants die, I'll do it.

Thats the spirit Super-do not go down in defeat!!

That is agood attitude , Nobody likes a quiter!!

 

[SuperChemicalGirl]

We've finally hit a run of luck after 3 weeks of really cold, wind and rain.

That was of course after we warmed up and I planted my garden. Most of my stuff died with 100% mortality. I had a few larger pumpkins (maybe 30% of what I planted) survive, that was it out of cukes, squash, pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe.

We do what we can, when we can. Thinking about not planting anything this year makes me sad. Even if I have to plant nasty Lowe's seedlings after the rest of my transplants die, I'll do it.

Thats the spirit Super-do not go down in defeat!!

That is agood attitude , Nobody likes a quiter!!

Haha I may not win but I don't go down without a fight. Our winters are too long and hard here to not fully enjoy the other seasons. And my idea of enjoying is growing stuff, mostly to eat.

 

[marypboland]

You are far from alone. I am here in the Colorado Rockies about an hour's drive from Aspen. Sunny Colorado, right? Not this year. Grim, grey, episodes of horrible wind and unusual cold fronts. My greens and potatoes are fine, but my beautiful heirloom tomatoes are struggling even in their usually warm raised bed on South side of the barn. I have covered them with agribon (remay stuff) many nights, and propped plywood in front of them to cut wind many days. I'm also getting so tired of all this, I think of quitting on the tomatoes. But then I remember the fabulous spaghetti sauce I made with last year's crop all fall and winter. You can't buy spaghetti sauce like that.

We all need to keep writing our Congresspeople and others -- we must do much more to counteract greenhouse emissions before climate change is a runaway catastrophe!

 

[desertcat]

I feel for everybody up to their knees in mud, I really do, but I'd almost sell my soul for some rain. Since the 1st of the year, we've had less than 1/2" and the winds have been horrid.

I'd had wonderful plans for the garden this year, but between the weather and some icky life things, I have nothing alive in the garden except weeds...and they're about to give up.

However, I AM NOT QUITTING! I'm off to the garden store in a bit for drip line supplies and some tomatoes. I will have tomatoes and squash one way or another!! And being the eternal optomist that all gardeners are, there's always a second chance waiting in the fall garden.:tools