Our cucumber plants are growing, but I’m not sure they will harvest anything. They look healthy, then they don’t.
Our tomatoes are still green, but yours look scrumptious!
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My garden is so far behind. Late planting, then heat waves, then way too much rain and humidiy. The slugs and weeds are happy now. We did get the raspberries in, had to clean up a very weedy area and try to remove all the invasive gout weed…the bane of my existence.
Peas are pretty much toasted out, beans are climbing the trellis, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are struggling. I had low survival on the carrots, beets and kholrabi. I will be replanting after i harvest the garlic. Sweet potatoes are slow, but the regular potatoes are very happy. Summer squash and cukes are also coming along slow. I bet everything will come in at once!
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Weather’s been interesting here this season. That, & we’re camping quite a bit so only planted what we don’t mind losing. Tomato, cilantro, basil & parsley in pots.
Every year cherry tomato volunteers spring up someplace.
There were boxes here we took out to make room for a covered dining/lounge area… slow-going. Snap dragons self-seeded in a few spots there…
Also amaranth & either tomatillo or ground cherry, they look alike. Oh, and so much purslane!
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While watering my pathetic dried up potted plants, I spotted this guy hiding! My first, and maybe only, cucumber this year…the heat and lack of rain has not been good to potted plants…
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Our weather has been crazy too here in the northeast. Small heat wave at the end of June toasted the peas, then lots of rain, and more rain, and intermittent downpours. So some things are happy, many are just waiting it out.
@Magpie, cucumbers don’t fare well in hot dry or uneven watering. My cukes finally blossoming, so there is hope. The squash has baby squash, we’ll see if any got pollinated. And the amount of purslane I’ve pulled up has filled the compost bin (well one side and it’s already on it’s way to compost). I know you can eat it, but it’s a mess to try to clean and I don’t really like it. So feed the compost.
Planted raspberries from our friends in Maine, the different variety of sweet potatoes are not liking the wet cooler weather and are growing slow. Beans are about to start beating, tomatoes have small green tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are small. And the carrots, kholrabi, and beets just are having a hard time. But we should have some good things by August. At least the potatoes are happy.
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Looking good!
A question for you veg-terans: is a window box too shallow for growing salad greens? These came up but they haven’t grown beyond this amount in at least a month:
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A box is usually ok & they do like dappled light but maybe there just isn’t enough sun under that tree.
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Here’s a picture of my self-watering 5 gallon buckets. Of course, immediately after I planted them, it started raining and then rained for about 5 days. Fortunately, they have an overflow hole, so excess water can drain out. I just got tomato cages today, so I’ll set them up soon. Again, I will be happy if I get anything from these. I mostly consider it an experiment…
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wow!
As long as they have a chance to grow before any frost, I think you have a good chance of getting veggies!
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The carrots are coming along nicely! I also harvested the earliest planted onions and will plant some more carrots in that space.
Best recipe for fresh carrots:
- Cut carrots into smaller pieces (see bowl in background). For tiny carrot you can leave them whole or just split in half.
- Melt butter in a skillet or pan. More butter. No, even more butter! It should cover the bottom of the pan, and then some. (It’s ok to mix oil and butter, but the butter is needed for flavour.)
- Add carrots and cook slowly on a fairly low heat until soft or you are sick of waiting. You’re pretty much ”boiling” them slowly in butter.
- Season with salt (or just skip the salt, the butter is the seasoning.
- Chop some parsley and sprinkle over pan
- NOM!
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Wow! Look at the big carrots! We tried to grow carrots once and we got two. The largest way maybe 2 inches! Yours are much better. Your recipe sounds yum-o!
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I still have at least 2 months before I get hit with frost, so it’s possible! But again, if I get anything, I’ll be happy 
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I could use some advice regarding garlic! As you may have heard we’ve had weeks of heavy rain here in north-western Europe. Today has been the first dry day in weeks so I went into the garden to check the damage. We’re lucky that we haven’t had any serious flooding in my area. Some streams are overflowing into fields but that’s it. The soil is of course very very wet and I decided to pull out the garlic because the plants were falling over. Now I have this:
Google told me to harvest on a dry day but this soil won’t be dry for a long time. They’re covered in mud as you can see. Do I just hang them up in the shed and wait what happens? I’m so afraid they’ll rot instead of dry. As you can see they’re kind of small too.
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You can still use them fresh without drying…or maybe make some garlic oil?
I dry mine mud and all and just brush off the dirt later…I also like the stems fresh in soups and salads.
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I just harvested my garlic and the soil hasn’t been dry since sometime in June. Some years I get large ones, some years small. Cool and wet does not make happy garlic, but too hot and dry isn’t good either. I think it’s chance plus the best growing conditions you can provide mi us the weather. I always replant garlic, but in the last several years have not had much of a crop. So I ordered from garlicgods.com late and could only get two kinds of softneck garlic. Planted late in October, as well as some hardneck from the previous year. Hardneck types seem to grow the best scapes. Taste analysis to come.
Softneck
Hardneck
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I’m relieved that yours look similar to mine! So that’s what garlic is supposed to look like fresh out of the ground. We had a cold spring, maybe I’ll have better luck next year. Mine is a softneck variety called Messidor.
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Fresh garlic is a joy. But remember to save some for planting again In the fall.
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I haven’t grown garlic yet, but I do have several bulbs on hand that have started to sprout. I think I’m going to slice them up, put them into the dehydrator, then grind them into garlic powder!
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I have some squash seeds that I could send to people, harvested from last years crop. I think it was an acorn squash, not 100% sure, my neighbour grew them and couldn’t remember.
So far I gave some to a friend who had a high germination rate, but then lost the first batch to weather!
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