Posted: 6/11/2011 6:59:28 PM EDT
This years garden. Everything was planted late this year due to extremely wet and cold spring.
garden6 2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr Squash looks good so far. 
garden3 2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr Tomato plants look decent. The peppers look healthy but small. Small row of cucumbersbehind tomatoes on left are doing good. 
garden2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr Beans are not taking off like I want but it's early. 
garden4 2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr Corns been up for about 2 weeks now. 
garden5 2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr I just planted watermelons today. 
garden7 2011 by firefinder36, on Flickr |
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Nice looking garden.
Your squash are a bit ahead of mine  Then again all my little garden consists of are 4 yellow squash, 4 white pan squash, and 2 yellow tomatoes, some basil, and a few jalapenos
The watermelons, ever have a decent turnout on them? Around here the season isn't long enough to really get a decent sized melon. biggest I ever saw grown here was about the size of a small football, before it split open.... |
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As a new gardener, it is interesting to me to see the different planting times and growth rates in other States.
I am harvesting watermelons up to 25lbs, with my average Sugar Baby weighing in at 12lbs (smaller, refrigerator sized, round). Corn from my first planting is already beginning to be harvested, and my onions, beets, cabbages, radishes, greens have all been planted, picked, harvested and have now produced bags of seeds for the Fall garden... As for wet and cold? Hardly. Major drought, no rain since May 15th. None. Not a measurable rainfall in almost 30 days. Prior to that it was April 30th (I think). The entire month of April...no rain. The forecast for the next seven days... 96-100, with no rain. TRG |
| I remember the "wet, cold" springs of KY and ALMOST wish I could trade with you. We just got our garden planted with seeds this past Saturday. We had snow just 100 ft. above us in elevation about 3 weeks ago. Of course, the tomatoes, peppers, squash, and a few others got started in the house. We haven't put them in the garden yet because of this rain cycle we're in with gusty winds and rain off and on all day for the last several weeks. Nighttime lows are still around 40. I hope we get a growing season this year. |
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Around about the middle of May around here, before you can get any kind of garden going, and then you run a really big chance of frost. I live higher up than most of WV, at about 2000ft so really here to be safe about memorial day is the time to plant.
As far as summer and fall crops, it's not possible here in WV. When the chance of frost ends at the end of May, and the fall comes in around end of September you don't have much time to grow one crop let alone two
Also many items like Watermelons, and cantaloupes, don't do well here, unless you start them really early in the house. |
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Watermelons do good here.
The neighboring county (Monroe) has a watermelon festival every year. Everybody's squash is doing good this year. It seems the springs have gotten so wet that planting dates get pushed a little farther out every year. we have a fairly long season so planting most everything (excluding cold weather crops) by the middle of June is ok. We usually don't get a frost until October. |
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Watermelons do good here. The neighboring county (Monroe) has a watermelon festival every year. Everybody's squash is doing good this year. It seems the springs have gotten so wet that planting dates get pushed a little farther out every year. we have a fairly long season so planting most everything (excluding cold weather crops) by the middle of June is ok. We usually don't get a frost until October. My few squash plants are doing well so far, I have one blooming, so it won't be long till i have so much squash i don't know what to do with it Squash seems to do good anywhere, and it's so damn easy to grow it's not even funny
Yeah, we run a chance of frost here anytime honestly, but it is more likely in Oct. but I have seen it in September. Problem is here the nights start turning colder around September and I think that is what finishes things up here. Pumpkins on the other hand if you get them going early seem to do ok here. |