June 2011 -- How's your garden growing?

**MissSeetonFan** · 07-01-2011, 07:31 PM

We didn't.

Here's all my list of excuses:

1) It rained too much for too long.
2) Stayed cold for much longer than normal.
3) Then, because we lived close to the river, which had been rising and falling, rising and falling, my asthma started acting up, with all the mold and mustiness of wet things.
4) I also got pregnant which means that, in my usual manner, I cannot tolerate pressure across my abdomen and bending over stinks. I end up extremely nauseated and vomiting in the toilet when I do too much.

5) Because of #s 3 & 4, we are moving shortly.

I am envious of all those who have put them in. Good luck to those who are growing things.

**KeithBC** · 07-02-2011, 12:47 AM

Everything is late and slow this year. It's been cold, cloudy and damp. There is still no sign of warm weather ahead.

We are harvesting strawberries by the bushel. Apparently, they just got tired of waiting for heat and decided to ripen anyway. We have to throw away a lot of them because they are moldy or mildewed, but there are still tons to eat and freeze. DW made a strawberry-rhubarb pie and a strawberry-chocolate mousse pie this week.

We have some interesting red spinach that looks like it is ready to harvest.

**frugalwarrior2** · 07-02-2011, 01:18 AM

Got about 6 strawberries and 2 hugarian peppers so far.
The tomato plants are huge but just blooming now. All potatoes rotted. Many plants drowned. Just a hard year. I think I will work the beds too.

**mzpepper** · 07-02-2011, 02:29 AM

Harvested peas today. I have sugar snap peas, shelling peas and snow peas that I planted in succession. Have been harvesting lettuce. Had to give about 8 heads to neighbors because it was starting to bolt. The next succession is ready to eat now. Spinach is done. Going to try to collect seed this year. Have baby zuchinnis. Have harvested broccoli and have more coming.

This was the first year I tried succession planting and I really like the results.

I don't have strawberries (allergic) but they are really getting bumper crops around here.

**NicJean** · 07-02-2011, 04:19 AM

No strawberries immediately local - both fall and spring repeated flooding (what strawberries there are, are 5.00/pint!).
Tomatoes slow start, no flowers yet, healthy plants because I waited so long to plant outdoors. Peppers, same. cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli - doing ok, not great. Everything looks like it's gonna need a LOONG time to ready. With frost early, traditionally, I'm not sure how much we'll be able to harvest.

Oh, and bugs insane this year (our resident bats have disappearred, they used to live under the railroad overpass about 300 ft away).