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Date: August 27, 2024 at 17:10:16
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Gardeners check in |
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What a horrible spring/summer to grow veggies. At least
where I live. Plants look good but almost nothing ready
to pick. Finally got green beans. Only a very few
tomatoes out of a couple of dozen plants.Im thinking
produce will be expensive this Fall and winter if this is
a problem all over. Weather has been so erratic.
Please tell me where you live and how is your area doing
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Date: September 02, 2024 at 20:29:37
From: LaMan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: As a native Californian, am spoiled but |
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Been kind of a sucky year for produce,
lots like peaches would ripen and turn
mushy overnight.
I think the heavy continuous rains here
screwed up the season.
I mean ain't starving or anything, just
bitching about the coffin colors lol.
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48926 |
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Date: August 28, 2024 at 07:02:59
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Gardeners check in |
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everything good this summer. need rain though.. i
havbe to water the flowers and garden. i love this cool
weather. tomatoes and peppers have been great. thai
basil and lemon grass is good also. it's been a very
nice summer for us.
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Date: August 28, 2024 at 03:25:04
From: sher, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Gardeners check in |
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I only got a few big tomatoes the rest looked like cherry. My cantaloupe
flowered but never produced fruit. Blackberries and raspberries were so
dismal I left them for the birds this year. Baby mockingbirds were fat and
healthy, lol. Cucumbers and zucchini did the same as cantaloupe. Very,
very few bees. Last year had a lot of them. Haven’t seen my carpenter
bees either. I have little boxes around for them . I’m going to the local
honey person this week to pick up more honey. I’m going to ask them if
they saw a change. We had plenty of rain. I’m in East Tennessee now.
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Date: August 28, 2024 at 22:11:52
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Hard pressed to find |
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bees in our organic garden in spite of bee balm,
echinacea, phlox, yarrow, catnip, fuchia, etc. Comparing
to last year and the years before, the bee population in
our garden was like 3/4 of what it used to be. Nothing
else has changed except the climate.
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48923 |
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Date: August 27, 2024 at 21:44:42
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Gardeners check in |
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Out where I live on the Eastside, my neighbor's tomatoes
could be rated from dismal to non-existent. Even the
zucchinis are still in its 'trying to get going' stage.
Neighbor around the corner - green beans look like they
got going but then got stuck at the 'in-between' stage of
growth. And for me, in my all organic garden, all the bee
balm and phlox and echinacea have really lame blooms on
them - so much so that I am hard pressed to find any bees
and only 1 hummingbird ventures to stop by. Other years
it is overrun with bees or many different varieties and
several hummingbirds.
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Date: August 27, 2024 at 22:14:50
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Gardeners check in |
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i also have noted a diminished hummingbird population around here...
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48922 |
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Date: August 27, 2024 at 18:25:09
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Gardeners check in |
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norcal coast...everything growing great here, except the corn is small and the peppers slow in fruiting...but they have been in the shadow of the squash and tomato plants...squashes up the ying yang (butternut and yellow summer)...bushels of tomatoes...dry beans doing really well...onions and shallots did really good, but a gopher went through the onions and chomped over half of them...beautiful carrots and beets and broccoli and kale...wheat did good too...didn't have time to put in a garden last year so this has been a fun return to the rested earth...couple nice rains this month really helped things pop...
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