What's the dealio, Clyde?
And who is Clyde anyway? Only Clyde I ever heard of was Clyde "the glide" Drexler, and that was from back in the day.
Anyway, what's the dealio with the weather? I waited two days to water the garden after our rainstorm the other day. And then I watered it yesterday. I watered it again today, too because my potato plants are wanting to die. I know that the signal for time to harvest, much like when the tops of your onion plants start to fall over. I have a couple of those doing that right now, too, but the bulbs are nowhere near the size they should be for this to happen.
In the last week, my Roma tomato plants are all about setting fruit and I mean in a hurry. I went from no tomatoes to tons of tomatoes and I don't even remember seeing them set that many flowers. I finished up the dripper project and they seem to be working well. Each little tomato plant is being fed. So is each little pepper plant. That's just in the lower garden, though. We're kind of experimenting with what works and what doesn't. The upper garden is irrigated. I did that yesterday. I'll have to do it tomorrow as well, and get after the weeds.
The regular tomato plants are doing their thing, too and it's about time for that. I'm just surprised at the amount of fruits the Roma plants have set in the last few days.
The carrots I planted aren't doing all that well, either. Oh well, there's always next year. I did have one little cucumber plant decide to grow. Out of all the seeds we planted and all the plants we planted, one cucumber. Just one.
Watch them grow voluntarily next year from the seeds that didn't germinate this year. Wouldn't surprise me one little bit.
I know it's dry, but I shouldn't have plants burn in a day especially after I just watered them. Some of the bean plants in the lower garden have taken a bit of a beating in the last day. And I don't know if the apricots are gonna cooperate for waiting until Thursday or Friday. I think I'm gonna be up the ladder tomorrow picking the ones at the very top that get the most sun.
Speaking of early, my neighbor has a dwarf peach tree and from the looks of the fruit on it, they're ripe, or just about so. That shouldn't happen for at least another month. I need to go look at mine. I have a dwarf peach, too, but I don't think mine is gonna make it much past this year. The winter killed more than half of this tree. The peaches aren't very tasty on it, either.
I had a raspberry die on me, too. Fine one day, shriveled up the next. I water them almost every day, but even they're shriveling in this heat. The raspberries that were starting to grow shriveled up yesterday in the heat and today's only supposed to be hotter.
I was hoping to hear back from the USU plant guru to hear what he has to say about all of this oddness with the flora. Usually plants are a good indicator of what the seasons are gonna be like. All I know for sure is that in the next three weeks or so, me and Miss June are gonna be some canning fools.
That reminds me, I found something else I gotta have---it's a little magnet to lift the lids for the jars out of the hot water. I gotta start rounding up rings and figure out how many lids I need. That also means we gotta start emptying jars of things we should have eaten but didn't. One thing I've learned is that if you store the food downstairs and live upstairs, a lot of it doesn't get eaten.
We wont' be making that mistake ever again.
If we can it, this year, we eat it and we don't buy it until what we have is gone. Tomatoes and peaches don't last long, but other stuff seems to get neglected.
Maybe I'll just stick to making apricot jam this year.
Well, gotta run. All this talk about gardening and canning is just reminding me that I have a ton of stuff to do around here.
Anyway, what's the dealio with the weather? I waited two days to water the garden after our rainstorm the other day. And then I watered it yesterday. I watered it again today, too because my potato plants are wanting to die. I know that the signal for time to harvest, much like when the tops of your onion plants start to fall over. I have a couple of those doing that right now, too, but the bulbs are nowhere near the size they should be for this to happen.
In the last week, my Roma tomato plants are all about setting fruit and I mean in a hurry. I went from no tomatoes to tons of tomatoes and I don't even remember seeing them set that many flowers. I finished up the dripper project and they seem to be working well. Each little tomato plant is being fed. So is each little pepper plant. That's just in the lower garden, though. We're kind of experimenting with what works and what doesn't. The upper garden is irrigated. I did that yesterday. I'll have to do it tomorrow as well, and get after the weeds.
The regular tomato plants are doing their thing, too and it's about time for that. I'm just surprised at the amount of fruits the Roma plants have set in the last few days.
The carrots I planted aren't doing all that well, either. Oh well, there's always next year. I did have one little cucumber plant decide to grow. Out of all the seeds we planted and all the plants we planted, one cucumber. Just one.
Watch them grow voluntarily next year from the seeds that didn't germinate this year. Wouldn't surprise me one little bit.
I know it's dry, but I shouldn't have plants burn in a day especially after I just watered them. Some of the bean plants in the lower garden have taken a bit of a beating in the last day. And I don't know if the apricots are gonna cooperate for waiting until Thursday or Friday. I think I'm gonna be up the ladder tomorrow picking the ones at the very top that get the most sun.
Speaking of early, my neighbor has a dwarf peach tree and from the looks of the fruit on it, they're ripe, or just about so. That shouldn't happen for at least another month. I need to go look at mine. I have a dwarf peach, too, but I don't think mine is gonna make it much past this year. The winter killed more than half of this tree. The peaches aren't very tasty on it, either.
I had a raspberry die on me, too. Fine one day, shriveled up the next. I water them almost every day, but even they're shriveling in this heat. The raspberries that were starting to grow shriveled up yesterday in the heat and today's only supposed to be hotter.
I was hoping to hear back from the USU plant guru to hear what he has to say about all of this oddness with the flora. Usually plants are a good indicator of what the seasons are gonna be like. All I know for sure is that in the next three weeks or so, me and Miss June are gonna be some canning fools.
That reminds me, I found something else I gotta have---it's a little magnet to lift the lids for the jars out of the hot water. I gotta start rounding up rings and figure out how many lids I need. That also means we gotta start emptying jars of things we should have eaten but didn't. One thing I've learned is that if you store the food downstairs and live upstairs, a lot of it doesn't get eaten.
We wont' be making that mistake ever again.
If we can it, this year, we eat it and we don't buy it until what we have is gone. Tomatoes and peaches don't last long, but other stuff seems to get neglected.
Maybe I'll just stick to making apricot jam this year.
Well, gotta run. All this talk about gardening and canning is just reminding me that I have a ton of stuff to do around here.
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