Bummer, devilsbrew. Hope that rain lets up. I got my first ripe tomato yesterday! I think it is called Mountain Pride, never grew them before. Had a horrible storm blow through last night, didn't get any hail, though.
Picked and shook the June apple tree last night. The wife is making applesauce and pie fillings today with her sisters. This is the calm before the storm for me. In about a week we're going to get slammed with cucs, peppers, and green beans with tomatoes not far behind.
Finally, a cucumber no, that's not what it weighed more likely what it cost me to grow everyone gets ripe tomatoes before me I'll have to grow one in the greenhouse next year, bogey-style.
I grow cukes every other year, then make tons of pickles. The neices think they are the best thing ever, even though they can afford to buy all sorts of phoo-phoo gourmet specialty organic fancy-schmancy products at the "farmers" market. They seem to be fascinated with my lifestyle, I am hoping it will catch on!
Finally got to get into the garden tonight. Picked about 108 cucumbers an 2 tomatoes. I ate one of the tomatoes right off the vine.... Mmmmm mmmmm good.... Everything is doing really good so far... Salsa and sauce should be too far off
Tomatoes are close but mild weather lately has set them back. A couple small chillies are ripe, and we've been eating greens.
Here, it has already been a cool summer. Since it is almost mid July and we struggle to have days reaching 80 degrees, yes, I can see a vortex happening. Basically, the Eastern Great Lakes will experience about a month of summer and a long winter in 2014. My prediction is that if the El Nino doesn't kick in, then we will have an early Fall.
If yall want some summer weather head down south here. Weve had plenty of 90+ days with more to come and Ill throw in some 100+% humidity for free I sure do wish we had a milder summer climate but the mild winter makes up for it I suppose.
Living in Maryland is fun--if you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes, it'll change. Saturday and Sunday were in the 70's and 80's, low humidity, delightful! Then the rest of the week was 90's, humid, then a storm that dropped the temp to 68, then the temp slowly rose to the 80's, and steambath just keeps hanging around. There is a constant battle between cool (sometimes dry!) air from the northwest, and hot sticky air from the southwest. Then there are the hurricanes that like to kiss the Atlantic... Of course, we have three main climates conditions in Maryland; warmer on the Eastern shore, where they can grow anything in loose sandy soil, cooler in Western Maryland where they get snow in early October in the mountains, and central where we have humidity and clay soil. It's a wonder we can grow anything without a steady supply of fungicides.
1st 12 plants produced well. (Got them before the moose did.) Got 16 quart bags of frozen broccoli , one head for a broccoli/pasta salad & a batch to steam up
