While I have been posting on the sidebar blog pages, they get no traffic so I might well turn them all private so I won't keep looking for comment/conversation on them. It's disheartening.
The main page here is also proving to be of little interest to hardly anyone so will not feel the need to keep it up as frequently as before. Hard to hold a conversation when you're the only one in the room. (Yep, burnout thoughts.)
SpaRRows has some issues: the Contender beans turned out to be BUSH and not POLE. The rose quartz tomato and the Mortgage lifter tags were switched so both are growing in spaces opitmized for the other. Rabbits CAN climb up into a 16" tall pot to get at bean plants. The sweet pepper plants are succumbing to something, leaves filling with spots, turning yellow and dropping off. I expect I'll just have to pull them out. The deck cukes: lemon cukes are all vine and no female blossoms while the adjoinging Sweet Success plant is some kind of runt. The vine is short and the cukes (while still all female and self-pollinate) are only 6" long instead of 14-16" I'm getting from the ones growing by the privacy fence. Both deck cukes aren't worth the space. (pics on current post on Vegetable Page)
There is info on the garage sale on the Household Page for anyone interested.
You're not the only one who got unexpected bean heights this season, but it sounds like I've got the reverse problem. I planted all my BUSH bean seeds just to the south of my slicer varieties of tomatoes in their cages. It seemed odd when some of the bean bushes started getting tall vines shooting out the tops of the "bean canopy", and then latching on to the tomato cages. I'd had some of my initial bean planting get nibbled off, so I got a different variety of beans (certain I bought bush), poked them in amongst the existing bean plants, and now have a problem. My gardening friend thinks I got half runners...I'm worried they're going to shade/reduce air flow for my tomatoes. Or possibly even smother the tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of critters, I watched a chipmunk jump up into a pot more than 12" tall, and then scurry up the trunk of the fig tree in it, looking for a ripe fig yesterday. I may have to put out a trap - I hate doing it, but I'm not growing this stuff for the critters, and those chipmunks can steal just about everything if not controlled.
And how are you feeling about alllllll this rain!? I'm sick of it! Blech! I don't even like going out in the back yard....too soggy and too many mosquitoes!
Hi Jeph -- I trap chipmunks and then leave the bodies out for the night patrol (possum). I've gotten over 30 so far. I'm thinking rabbits next.... Yeah, the mosquitos are brutal right now. I use those skeeter dunks on all my water barrels to keep them from breeding there. They work really well although need re-added once a month. This rain - so wet you're right to worry about your air flow/mildew and plant heath. Sounds like something has to go. The rain is needed, but the persistent GLOOM is getting to me. Why can't we have more days like 4th of July weekend? Hang in there.
DeleteKris, you are just down now after the busy past weeks. It will pass (or not).
ReplyDeleteYou have had a load to bear. I can sympathize with you between the weather, the company non-stop and normal life, I have failed miserably to keep up with blogging, reading, and gardening. I am going to quit beating myself up over it.....you should too.
It has been a strange and unproductive gardening year for lots of us. I knew Contender was a bush bean and have grown it. I have a row of tomatoes that look like sticks....one ripe one so far. You would think with all the rain they would be lush, leafy bushes.....sticks, I repeat sticks! I mowed down the onion row and the broccoli row. We have had too much rain here and the Gardening Gods were definitely missing.
You hang in there. Post when you feel like it. I always enjoy reading. I am headed over to the side bar now.
Yeah, you're right. I'm just down from the weather and being overwhelmed with stuff. Just need a couple stress-free days, some regular meals and maybe a sunny day or two and I'll be more my old self. I'm sure you feel much the same - you have been overrun with guests and bad weather this season down there. I'll keep posting - no fear. LOL Thanks for the comment. Always nice to know I'm not alone. ;-D
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a lot going on. It is the busy season indeed. I've had DAYS of errands in town and have only had ONE day in the garden this whole week. It's making me have nuts from lack of garden time. Hope things slow down a bit on your end as well.
Take care
Yep, burnout all around for sure. Thing is, when I'm tired and depressed I sorta look for some online conversation in the comments, but no joy there these days. I'm such a whiner, I know. Everyone's busy. Thanks for chiming in. Thought you'd gone on walkabout....
DeleteOkay, all your rain is disheartening because everything around here is drying up!
ReplyDeleteBlogging can be a great pastime, but it can be a burden as well. I like your idea of separate blogs, but am guessing it gets hard to keep up with. You don't have comments emailed to you so you don't have to check the blogs?
I confess I'm terrible at reading blogs these days, even to return visits and comments. Just too much going on...
Yeah yeah I know, I'm a real whiner. Thanks for popping in. I've been reading all your adventures, alas it's usually on the iPad and for safety reasons I don't log into Google there to allow me to comment. Then I forget to get back from the iMac later. My bad. I about went into insulin shock at the sweetness of those pics of the piglets. Words fail me on the darling-ness of them all.
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