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We have been bordering on drought conditions up here in Maine ... quite unusual.
Some of you may have remembered the terraced garden I put in ...
It is finally giving up its yield although EVERYONE's tomatoes are ripening VERY SLOWLY ...
Here's a list of what we are getting:
1. Aside from enough tomatoes to feed the county (34 plants from seed)
2. 6 types of beans (heaps)
3. shallots
4. carrots
4a. leeks
5. 6 potato plants
5a 2 kinds of cucumbers (english and seeded) (tons)
6. swiss char (3 colors)
7. 5 types of squash
8. 4 watermelons
9. dozen head of cabbage
10. small set of peas
11. 2 sets of radishes (red - already gone) and those big white German beer radishes - some salt and brown bread with butter and you're all set
12. 10 Pepper plants, some sweet, some hot.
13. Herb section with parsley, basil, rosemary, dill, cilantro and cat mint (for Cooper the cat).
14. Oh I forgot, can you say Zuchinni? This plant should be regulated by the fed.
The peppers are way behind for some reason.
In NY, deer were a problem requiring fence protection. Not here, but the bugs will get ya if ya don't watch out.
This seems to be one of those years when flora went crazy regionally. Every old forgotten 100 yo apple tree along the roads are all full of fruit.
We've already begun canning, pickling and preserving. Looks like I will be having a lot of spaghetti this winter.
As you can see from the pictures and the list, this garden was a little too ambitious perhaps. Although everything grew or is growing nicely, it needed to be thinned out more than a couple of times. The tomato plants were toppling their cages and snapping their stakes as they passed 9ft in height. We had to toss some unripened fruit to get the plants down to a manageable size where they could get air and water.
The beds are 5'x40' - perhaps hard to distinguish in the photos.
Some of you may have remembered the terraced garden I put in ...
It is finally giving up its yield although EVERYONE's tomatoes are ripening VERY SLOWLY ...
Here's a list of what we are getting:
1. Aside from enough tomatoes to feed the county (34 plants from seed)
2. 6 types of beans (heaps)
3. shallots
4. carrots
4a. leeks
5. 6 potato plants
5a 2 kinds of cucumbers (english and seeded) (tons)
6. swiss char (3 colors)
7. 5 types of squash
8. 4 watermelons
9. dozen head of cabbage
10. small set of peas
11. 2 sets of radishes (red - already gone) and those big white German beer radishes - some salt and brown bread with butter and you're all set
12. 10 Pepper plants, some sweet, some hot.
13. Herb section with parsley, basil, rosemary, dill, cilantro and cat mint (for Cooper the cat).
14. Oh I forgot, can you say Zuchinni? This plant should be regulated by the fed.
The peppers are way behind for some reason.
In NY, deer were a problem requiring fence protection. Not here, but the bugs will get ya if ya don't watch out.
This seems to be one of those years when flora went crazy regionally. Every old forgotten 100 yo apple tree along the roads are all full of fruit.
We've already begun canning, pickling and preserving. Looks like I will be having a lot of spaghetti this winter.
As you can see from the pictures and the list, this garden was a little too ambitious perhaps. Although everything grew or is growing nicely, it needed to be thinned out more than a couple of times. The tomato plants were toppling their cages and snapping their stakes as they passed 9ft in height. We had to toss some unripened fruit to get the plants down to a manageable size where they could get air and water.
The beds are 5'x40' - perhaps hard to distinguish in the photos.
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