2025 gardens

sixdogs · Wednesday at 11:04 AM

Cracks are from too many 90+ degree days this year.

kenmbz · Wednesday at 11:35 AM

My mature Peach tree was completely cleaned out (it was full of tiny peaches) before they were ripe.
My new peach tree had 2 left that are ripe. Really good peaches much better than the type on the mature tree. Hoping for a good batch next year, was surprised the new tree even produced the first year.

sixdogs · Wednesday at 9:20 PM

DJ54 said:
I had a heat related problem here I don't ever remember having before. I had 6" inches of rain here over a 4 day period along with hot sun afterwards. I looked the garden over yesterday morning and noticed some cabbage, lettuce and pepper plants wilted. Checked again yesterday evening and finally saw the difference. Apparently, the hot afternoon sun came out after an episode of a nearly 2" rain day before yesterday. What cabbage and plants a couple rows over were shaded by the Broom Corn and sweet corn are fine. What plants were in the direct sun literally got cooked. Didn't seem to affect the tomatoes. Now to see if they come out of it.

How did this turn out and did your plants recover?

Jams AB · Wednesday at 10:30 PM

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DJ54 · Thursday at 6:31 AM

sixdogs said:
How did this turn out and did your plants recover?

Tomatoes were stunted by the heat & moisture. They're still going, just hoping this cooler weather will bring them back. Something is literally eating the cabbage, looks to be a groundhog. Hopefully I'll be able to salvage enough to make 'kraut. Pepper plants are holding their own, but not as big as usual.

Deer stripped all of the sweet corn and popcorn. The only thing that has done well is the Broom Corn it finally headed out and I'm guesstimating it's nearly 16'-18' tall. Hoping to take some to the Fair just for kicks. We'll see.

sixdogs · 2025-08-22T09:21:00-0400

DJ54 said:
Tomatoes were stunted by the heat & moisture. They're still going, just hoping this cooler weather will bring them back. Something is literally eating the cabbage, looks to be a groundhog. Hopefully I'll be able to salvage enough to make 'kraut. Pepper plants are holding their own, but not as big as usual.

Deer stripped all of the sweet corn and popcorn. The only thing that has done well is the Broom Corn it finally headed out and I'm guesstimating it's nearly 16'-18' tall. Hoping to take some to the Fair just for kicks. We'll see.

16' to 18' tall. That's 16 feet to 18 feet tall?