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uppityperson

(115,874 posts)
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 12:18 PM Jun 2013

Bwahahahahahaha

It is June 8 here in the Pacific NorthWet and I am watering my garden in shorts and tank top. The last 2 yrs my yard was a bog until the middle of July and didn't get even radishes for another month.

Things are growing this year, not sitting and mildewing. Love it when we get a nice year and had to share.

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Bwahahahahahaha (Original Post) uppityperson Jun 2013 OP
I hope it isn't too dry later on this year. In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #1
You go, girl! Curmudgeoness Jun 2013 #2
I've already picked 3 gallons of strawberries this year Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2013 #3
Wow, I need to go to the berry farm soon. I just played god, thinned out carrots. uppityperson Jun 2013 #4
a dividend from being a long-time gardener NJCher Jun 2013 #5
Enjoy! Lugnut Jun 2013 #6

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
2. You go, girl!
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 01:06 PM
Jun 2013

Glad that you are having such great weather. How that garden does well, it sounds like you deserve it after crappy years.

Me, I am huddled up under an afghan with my sweaters back on in PA....and waiting for the 80 degrees that we are supposed to have tomorrow. I should probably be out weeding, since it is not too hot and the ground is damp, but I just can't get my butt in gear. This spring has been mostly cold, with a couple of heat waves in between. No middle ground yet.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
3. I've already picked 3 gallons of strawberries this year
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:07 PM
Jun 2013

they're coming in early

My apple trees are a dud this year though, I missed the bloom while I was in Colorado, and I get back to find almost 0 pollinated fruits.

uppityperson

(115,874 posts)
4. Wow, I need to go to the berry farm soon. I just played god, thinned out carrots.
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:34 PM
Jun 2013

"you live, you die". I feel bad doing it but dang, they ALL sprouted this yr.

NJCher

(37,926 posts)
5. a dividend from being a long-time gardener
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 11:00 PM
Jun 2013

Congratulations on a good start to what will most likely be a good season. We have to have them now and then, otherwise we'd never be inspired to garden.

While it's been a long, cool spring and I haven't gotten much planted in my 11 raised beds (only one tomato bed going), I never cease to be astonished at what volunteers come up. I have lots of arugula rustica, kale, lemon balm, which i use to make tea, all kinds of lettuce, asparagus, garlic, all the perennial herbs, such as marjoram, sorrel, chives, sage, rosemary, and probably some others that I cannot recall off the top of my head. Volunteer tomatoes, too.

For the kitties, lots of gorgeous, leafy, catnip. Plenty of black-eyed susan, which I've been transplanting around the property. Beautiful peach colored roses. Lilies.

In addition to all that, two years ago I threw out some wildflower seed. I thought it wasn't any good, as nothing came up. However, this year I am getting all types of unusual, pretty, interesting flowers. There's always a surprise when I go to my garden!


Cher


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