re: The 2021 Garden Thread

Rained another 3-4 inches today. Sweet potatoe slips are on their way. Should have plenty of space for them after everything drowning. Think I can plant them in same place that I had red potatoes recently?

Thanks for the heads up. Before planting our garden we put up a 10 ft fence to keep them out. It doesn’t stop the pocket gophers though.

let me rephrase, I drove 10 ft T posts in the ground and put up a poly fence....so its probably 7 ft tall.

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I may never have to water my garden again this season. Can't believe all this rain.

I think the squash and green beans drowned. We have gotten 20 inches in the last 3 weeks. The cucumbers are starting to make weird dick shapes so they are probably on the way out. Tomatoes are looking rough. Corn got blown over 2 weeks ago but it’s still trying. I lost control of the weed battle during my son’s baseball season and still trying to recover.

I think I am going with landscape fabric everywhere for the fall and cutting holes.

My cucumbers love the rain, my tomatoes not so much. I have to pick them as soon as I see a hint of orange or red.

Some of my heirlooms were starting to crack because of all the rain so I took the opportunity to make a big harvest. Peppers are ripening slowly but I’ve been picking a bunch of jalapeños and some bells and jimmy nardellos.

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Thanks. I laid some down between the rows to try out earlier and they worked well. I need a lot of boxes though to do that throughout.