We have not had any rain since Helene. The fall garden sprouted, and we are watering from the pond but things are not really growing. I do have this nice border of spotted mint up by the house, which I have watered through the drought. This goes by many names: Monarda Punctata, horse mint, spotted mint, spotted bee balm. I stated these from seeds and I am hoping they spread. It is native to Eastern US.
There is a forecast for much rain from Hurricane Helene stalling over Kentucky. So we mowed the weed ground cover, tilled, and are planting a fall crop, after all. The row plantings include: Turnip, Lettuce, Spinach, Chinese Cabbage and Radish. It is late, but we will extend the season with row covers, in hope of bok choy for Christmas.
The drought at Buzzard Roost continued through August and the garden did not produce.
Harvest includes these small chili peppers we are going to dry and a snack of cherry tomatoes.
We did get 2.5" rain from Hurricane Francine on September 13th. However the forecast moving forward has no regular rain in the forecast, so I will probably not plant the fall garden this year. Better luck next year.
Goggle would not let me upload my photo of a small bowl of tomatoes, but with a major drought here at Buzzard Roost there is just not much garden to show. I have lost the cucumber and squash, tomato is hanging on under hay but has some kind of bottom rot? We are irrigating for the first time from our pond to try and keep vegetable alive. Moab, UT is wetter than we are. Maybe it will rain tomorrow.
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How did you spend your Memorial Day Weekend? I spent mine shucking peas. The weather was perfect on Saturday, and I did our second picking. The first picking was last week, and they were good! This is our best pea harvest ever.
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| Pea Row on the Left next to Tomato Crop |
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| Green Arrow Pea |
My method of creating the pea row worked great. The old tomato stalks provided a type of fence keeping the vines up off the ground and the hay provided shade keeping them cool. When I folded the vines back, they were full of peas.
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| Method of growing peas up on old tomato stalks and hay. |
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| Second Picking |
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| Big Pea Harvest |
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| Shucking the First Picking |
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| Third Picking on May29 (~1 quart) |
