When is the weather going to co-operate ??!!

[pooklette]

Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Yesterday was an exception. A few ugly storms went thru just south of me.

So apparently I'm just south of you. Those storms went right over the top of us.

This season has been a real bummer so far. Without fail, when I have time to work in the garden, it's pouring, or threatening to. When I say fooey and decide to transplant in the rain, the wind starts howling and tries to blow my plants into the next county.

I took the rest of the week off work and I'm hoping at some point during my four day weekend, I'll be able to get my gardens planted. Wish me luck.

[Mischka]

This has been the worst spring for growing tomatoes here in many years.

The cold weather, combined with constant rain and overcast skies has also brought growth to a standstill. The weather forecast doesn't look good for the next few days, either.

The ground is so saturated that I can't even walk in the garden areas without sinking up to my ankles in mud. Ugh.

My biggest worry is that I haven't been able to spray an anti-fungal and have lost some Martino's Roma plants already as a result.

[Wi-sunflower]

We managed to get our small amount of peppers and eggplant in the ground yesterday, but no Tomatoes at all yet this week. The ground is just a bit too muddy yet.

We are getting rather late for the winter squash too. If we don't get more in the ground in about a week we probably won't for this year. That will be a big hit on our fall sales if that happens as the winter squash is a big part of what we do most years.

Unfortunately there is more rain in the forecast for tonite and tomorrow. Just in time for the Saturday markets.

At least we didn't get dumped on like my in-laws did yesterday. They had 5 inches in the rain gauge in the morning and it rained most of the day too. I would be totally bananas if we had that kind of weather here about now.

Carol

[Alberta]

We have had so much rain its pathetic. The ground is saturated, I remember rainy springs in the past, but none like this. I need sunshine, my plants need sunshine and warmth. In all probabilty we will go into a super hot summer. I just want some warmth and sunshine,

Alberta

[Wi-sunflower]

I know what you mean about needing SUN. After about 3-4 dreary cloudy days, I tend to get crabby or just really down.

Well things have finally gotten a bit better for my area, weather wise.

We got a decent amount of the winter squash planted last Sunday. We've had just a couple of light rains since and warmer weather finally. So hopefully those seeds will be germinating soon.

The ground was dry enough to plant tomatoes all this week, but none of my workers showed up until yesterday, and then only 1. I managed to plant 2 rows myself on Tuesday, but my back wasn't up for more by myself. Hubby, the worker and I got 2 wagon loads of plants in the ground yesterday. That was about 1/2 of my "specials", the varieties I made trades for last winter.

We should have been about done by now if workers had come in all week. One problem we had yesterday was that because we are so late planting, some of the plants are HUGE, like nearly 3 feet tall. We did break some just moving them out of the greenhouse. The worst so far was Grandfather Ashlock. It was just sooo tender compared to most of the others. We broke nearly 1/2 of the flat.

I won't have time to supervise planting my "specials" today. I need to do stuff for the market tomorrow. But if workers do come in today, Hubby should be able to get most of the rest of our regular tomatoes planted.

There are storms forecast for here later today and tonite. While the plants we just got in the ground will need the rain, I just hope they get out of the area by morning. We've had at least 6 wet Saturday markets in a row. Enough already !!!

Carol

[Barbee]

It's been an awful year here, too. Rain, rain and more rain. Overcast skies and really not THAT hot until the past couple of days and it feels like a sauna out there today. Ugh.
I am just having a fit about my tomatoes. What isn't looking diseased is being eaten up by bugs.
I keep waiting for a plague of locusts to arrive LoLoL

[creister]

Not the best year in west Texas either. April was either 95 or 65 for a high. Same with May, but not so much. Now early June became July's inferno and the fruit setting time is done. Send us some rain, we need it.

[Tormato]

That's Nothing.

It has rained here 19 out of 25 days.

All of my seedings are grown outdoors, no growlights.

I finally transplanted half of them yesterday, three weeks later than normal.

I have no idea when the rest will be transplanted, or if they'll make it.

I would have been expecting my first ripe tomato, Kimberly, in September.

If I had started Kimberly.

I'm now looking forward to fried green tomatoes in September.


Topper

[hasshoes]

I'm with ya Topper.

My heat keeps coming on even though it's turned down to 50. When it's not raining it seems to be overcast with 20 mph winds.

I think my seedling are smaller now than when I planted them.

I think we're getting payback for our fabulous winter.

[hasshoes]

Oh great.

We're getting 45 mph wind tonight. Don't know what I can drape for protection at this point because the wind is already at 30.

Ugh!

On a lighter note. . . a chair just flew past my window! The maters are probably down at the neighbors by now!

[Wi-sunflower]

The weather here in Wi has been rather horrible -- little to no rain and not much heat either.

One of my local weathermen posted a link to a page by the local National Weather Service office that somewhat explains our goofy weather and also somewhat explains the wet weather that the NE has been getting.

Interesting read.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display...29810&source=0

OH, I finally got about 0.8" this morning. We could have used more, but at this point that's more than we've gotten in about 6 weeks.

Carol

[Granite26]

Weather has been terrible here in west Wisconsin. We are in moderate to severe drought according to NOAA.
I have been trying to water but have only been able to give each plant 1 gallon every other day. (My well isnt the best) Last nights 31/100" was great...just wish it was more. Nothing beats a good rain!
So far we have only had a few toms from a couple early started plants. Most of the plants seem to be in a sort of holding pattern. Lots of blossoms and some fruit set but my next concern will be frost as I am only 7-8 weeks away!

Cool link to explain the WI weather!

[Wi-sunflower]

My area isn't officially in a drought area probably because the rain or lack thereof has been more spotty. Some areas not all that far from me have had more rain and others have actually had less.

I hear you about the frost too. While we can be as late as the middle to late Oct, we have had frost as early as early Sept. Around Oct 1 is probably about average tho.

With everything as slow as it is this year, we may have a whole lot of green tomatoes. Usually there is some sweet corn on the market by July 4. Last Sat was the first I saw around here. 2 weeks late. Also there is almost no field corn even tasseling yet. That's how cool it's been here.

Carol

[hasshoes]

The weather has been so bad here on the coast south of Boston that I got a sunburn running errands the other day--- and that's with a moisturizer with SPF 15.

My town used up it's yearly snow removal budget before February. . . so I thought for sure we'd have a nice spring. Didn't even consider getting jipped on Summer. . . starting to think coastal New England is really getting the raw deal on this whole global warming thing.

[Noreaster]

Yep, lots of Global Warming out here in Southern NJ......our area has experienced a 3 degree LOWER than normal average temp for June/July.

So much for the ongoing BS that the world is coming to an end....

......HOWEVER.....the plants that are finally beginning to catch up (right now an estimated 3 weeks behind normal) absolutely love the fact that it rarely now goes above 80 here !!

We'll see what happens.....but so far, so good !