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Oh man I wish I could find the pictures of when we had our garden back in WV in the mid 90's. That sucker produced copious amounts of everything. The house we bought had an enormous bramble patch in the backyard. I finally got around to 'clearing' it and lo an behold it was a mountain of mostly decomposed small trees and woody vegetation and some soil pushed into it- it was what was cleared to put in the house and the front yard.
Easily a 100'x 50' or more patch of super rich, dark earth. Everything we grew did well. Never had to water- just weed darn near every day. My first go at sweet corn did get knocked over by thunderstorm winds, but the following year I used hardwood mulch around the corn and that held it tight and it really took off.
This little slice of heaven in Montana is tough. Soil is decomposed granite and shale, spring comes late and fall comes early. 1 week after planting our tomatoes we had a cold, dry wind event that sucked the life out of them. They all wilted and stunted and it took weeks for them to recover. That is what set us back. We lost at least 1/3rd of our transplants and had to buy some large tomato plants at the nursery. Honestly I've talked with my wife and I think we're going to scale back on trying to grow tomatoes until we find 'the right' varieties. I think we just have to go with what mother nature will allow us. So no cucumbers, less tomatoes and no more peas (they do well- they are just a pain to shell. Too much pain with little gain). We are definitely planting more bush green beans, I'll stick to Northern Hybrid sweet corn, cabbages, spinach, onions, potatoes, carrots and various other roots.
Lol. I had to pull mine out to make them stop. Freezer is packed. Sisters too. Next year I plan on getting into canning. I'm collecting my supplies now. Darn things probably won't grow then.
Impressive haul there! Here in MI, mine were like that in late July and early August, and started drying up from drought and heat about mid August. Now i have one lone summer squash I had to throw in the compost pile (hard dark yellow skinned) and I have one zuc growing right now that stands a chance of making it. A few nights coming up in the mid 40's this week though.
This photo is the definition of patience in MI gardening, I'm learning. I have lots of banana peppers, this is my first red bell
We're picking them young. We may pickle them. Still have tomatoes growing and 1/2 the plants are still all green. Next week is a warm up into the 70's close to 80's..
Wife pulled off some tomatoes. Most are somewhat ripe. It's supposed to be 44 tonight so we figured we'd get some in. The bucket has about 8-10lbs worth. To the window sill they go.
Window sills getting full. We honestly thought our tomatoes would be a bust. They have not been as productive as we'd hoped, but we're happy thus far. We have another week without frost temperatures according to the weatherman- so I'm going to feed my Wisconsin 55's one last time and see what happens.
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