BarredBuff's Homesteading Shenanigans

[FarmerJamie]

That stinks, youngin.

 

[BarredBuff]

That stinks, youngin.

I know. We are finally getting a much needed rain albeit a down pour now.....

 

[FarmerJamie]

That stinks, youngin.

I know. We are finally getting a much needed rain albeit a down pour now.....

I just got home. I really need to get outside and get to it.

 

[BarredBuff]

That stinks, youngin.

I know. We are finally getting a much needed rain albeit a down pour now.....

I just got home. I really need to get outside and get to it.

Where have you been?

 

[FarmerJamie]

Being a dad of three kids and married to a real estate agent and holding down a full time job. I need to go weed in the garden and get some other stuff done, because I have to take the eldest to take her ACTs tomorrow and it's supposed to be raining by the time I get home.

 

[FarmerJamie]

...and I go out and start weeding the red beets, and it's now pouring rain.

 

[BarredBuff]

...and I go out and start weeding the red beets, and it's now pouring rain.

We got a good rain just a couple of hours ago. After I put the hens up we are going to relay for life........

 

[Wannabefree]

Sorry to hear about your garden Jamester. The corn is likely done for this year. We all in this neck of the woods got heat too early for it to make much. The tomatoes, with this downpour after a lot of heat and dry, are going to split pretty badly, nothing you can do about it. Tomatoes gorge themselves on water when there has been a deficiency and it splits the skins. Thankfully we have been watering ours every day and they are doing okay at the moment. IF you have been watering they may do okay, but if not, look for the splitting and smaller fruits.

Our peppers are doing about the best of everything besides the squash. The corn has tasseled already and won't make much if anything. I noticed one silk peeking out today out of all the plants and it is just now shoulder height..the tallest of the stalks anyway. Our saving grace is that we used them as bean poles too, so they will still serve a purpose and be feed for the goats once the beans are spent. I'll plant more first week of July and see if we can get it to do anything then. This heat wave is making for a hard year gardening :/ Well and northward is drowning everything set out, like at Jamie's place. *sigh* I guess we all are having difficulties in the gardening department. I have aphids the likes of which has never before been seen SO MANY of those buggers, and not a praying mantis in sight...I have dish soap though, and we are maintaining decent with it. I hope things even out and we all have some good crops and are able to save some things this year. It is looking a bit bleak though. SO, what I'm tryin to say is...you aint the only one fighting this crazy weather and circumstances to get it done right!!!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Sorry to hear about your garden Jamester. The corn is likely done for this year. We all in this neck of the woods got heat too early for it to make much. The tomatoes, with this downpour after a lot of heat and dry, are going to split pretty badly, nothing you can do about it. Tomatoes gorge themselves on water when there has been a deficiency and it splits the skins. Thankfully we have been watering ours every day and they are doing okay at the moment. IF you have been watering they may do okay, but if not, look for the splitting and smaller fruits.

Our peppers are doing about the best of everything besides the squash. The corn has tasseled already and won't make much if anything. I noticed one silk peeking out today out of all the plants and it is just now shoulder height..the tallest of the stalks anyway. Our saving grace is that we used them as bean poles too, so they will still serve a purpose and be feed for the goats once the beans are spent. I'll plant more first week of July and see if we can get it to do anything then. This heat wave is making for a hard year gardening :/ Well and northward is drowning everything set out, like at Jamie's place. *sigh* I guess we all are having difficulties in the gardening department. I have aphids the likes of which has never before been seen SO MANY of those buggers, and not a praying mantis in sight...I have dish soap though, and we are maintaining decent with it. I hope things even out and we all have some good crops and are able to save some things this year. It is looking a bit bleak though. SO, what I'm tryin to say is...you aint the only one fighting this crazy weather and circumstances to get it done right!!!

We're a sad-sack trio, ain't we...

 

[Wannabefree]

Sorry to hear about your garden Jamester. The corn is likely done for this year. We all in this neck of the woods got heat too early for it to make much. The tomatoes, with this downpour after a lot of heat and dry, are going to split pretty badly, nothing you can do about it. Tomatoes gorge themselves on water when there has been a deficiency and it splits the skins. Thankfully we have been watering ours every day and they are doing okay at the moment. IF you have been watering they may do okay, but if not, look for the splitting and smaller fruits.

Our peppers are doing about the best of everything besides the squash. The corn has tasseled already and won't make much if anything. I noticed one silk peeking out today out of all the plants and it is just now shoulder height..the tallest of the stalks anyway. Our saving grace is that we used them as bean poles too, so they will still serve a purpose and be feed for the goats once the beans are spent. I'll plant more first week of July and see if we can get it to do anything then. This heat wave is making for a hard year gardening :/ Well and northward is drowning everything set out, like at Jamie's place. *sigh* I guess we all are having difficulties in the gardening department. I have aphids the likes of which has never before been seen SO MANY of those buggers, and not a praying mantis in sight...I have dish soap though, and we are maintaining decent with it. I hope things even out and we all have some good crops and are able to save some things this year. It is looking a bit bleak though. SO, what I'm tryin to say is...you aint the only one fighting this crazy weather and circumstances to get it done right!!!

We're a sad-sack trio, ain't we...

yeah kinda Mine isn't too too bad, but not as good as I had hoped.