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The daily rains have subsided for almost 2 weeks now. The
garden definetely has taken a hit from the wet, cool, spring.
My spring planted garlic is a wipeout. I usually plant garlic the
1st of October and let it overwinter but I didn't last October.
Think it was early May I found tomato, pepper, and squash
plants at the local mega mart that were in perfect health.
The tomato plants are big and thick and healthy but no
tomatoes showing yet. I run into this several years back...
using my rainwater collection barrel water to water plants.
Everything died...eventually. All the squash plants, peppers,
radishes, etc. all look yellowish. The squash plants that I
planted into the regular garden and used the hose to water
are thriving. My rainwater is just collected from my garage
roof...shouldn't be contaminated. It's the fucking chemtrail
rain that is to blame. I don't know why I keep these rain
barrels around except to put out a fire or something. Using
water from these barrels on my plants is the kiss of death.
The strawberry main harvest is now as I've got 18 halfpints
of jam made. The rest will just be chopped up with sugar and
into the freezer. The corn is in the 8-9" high range. The
green beans are starting to wrap around the poles. The
sunflowers are getting close to the 4' mark. My garden is
a far cry from previous years but atleast I'm not letting
it go fallow.

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It's easy to lose track of time in your cellar or fruit room
as I call it. The garage "fruit room" is not much bigger than
a closet but there is a "lot" of stuff in there. Home preserved
items mostly and where I store my seed collection. Today
I decided to examine what's in there and if there might be
a possibility of some old or outdated products. Started with
my "jam" collection. A quick browse and I immediately looked
for an empty 5 gallon bucket. Spent almost 3 hours emptying
nearly 150 jars of jam from 2000 thru 2007. Strawberry,
Blackberry, Blueberry, Peach, Raspberry, Apple Butter, all
had to be opened and dumped. It's sad to see my hard work
go to waste but the whole premise of preserving foods is
that you will need it someday. Well I guess I didn't need it
but it was there incase I did. I've been a canning crazed maniac
the last decade. I'm alright with it though. My fingernails are
in ruff shape ripping off the jar lids though. Spent nearly an
hour at the sink washing out jars and then sorting them out
by size and finding a place to store them. Still more jam to
dump another day. I can't believe how many Ball and Kerr
and Mason canning jars I own. This is one of the projects
that takes time. I know I have a shitload of green beans from
2003 and bunch of salsa from 2005 to dump yet. The woods
nearby love my gifts.

-- Edited by The Krink on Monday 28th of June 2010 02:43:46 AM

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The battle or war against weeds. Between what sprouts up
in my garden or gravel driveway, I'm going to eventually
go insane. I refuse to resort to any product made by Monsanto.
I'm on my hands and knees a good week almost every month
of the growing season. Where in fuck do these weeds come from?
Some I can tell are my own fault. Do not let mint, oregano,
butterfly bushes, borage, tarragon, go to seed. Next is the
grasses...fuck I've plucked atleast 20 different types from
my gravel driveway. I've got several weeds from hell going
on that I don't know their names. I saw a handbook of weeds
at Ace Hardware that I had just a few minutes to paw through.
Still debating on spending $20 bucks on a book just so I can
"name names" on these "weeds from hell". Of course any weeding
projects wherein you loosen up the soil, the neighbors cats
immediately shit in. Gardening is supposed to be fun.

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Well it's mid September now. Some years September can
be summery as in an extention of summer weather and
some years September turns to shit shortly after you turn
the calendar page. Well we didn't leave August on a good
note. Think MIR had something to do with it. Well I'm already
pulling up plants like cukes and green beans and squash.
All produced very well but once they quit blooming...show
over. Got 52 pints of green beans canned and that's a good
year. Will be eating the squash as time goes on. Had a
decent strawberry harvest. The birds ate all my blueberries
which is something that has never happened before. I planted
a lot of sweet corn but seriously doubt I'll ever eat any of
it. Guess my garden soil isn't "supercharged" enough. A decade
of chemtrail fallout might be the the cause tu. Got lotza
potatoes, yukon golds, reds, blues. Dried a lot of basil for
future use. My peppers were a bust although I may have a
couple dozen jalapenos for freezing storage. My tomatoes
are very late. Have eaten a dozen or so but main crop is
still struggling. As long as it doesn't freeze soon, they continue
to do their thing. I got a sunflower plant that's 12 feet tall.
All the sunflowers in my garden were volunteers and they
grew nicely. Next is to see if my apple harvest is worth messing
around with. Not a bad year despite my "lack of heart" in the
continuation of what was.



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OK...it's the last week of September. "Had" we a decent
September things would just keep on goin' on but we
dint. With most garden vegetables, when they quit
blooming the show is over. Already yanked my pole
beans, cukes, squash. Today I yanked my zucchini
and tomato plants. Although the nightime temps have
been pretty mild, all it takes it a very warm day to a
very cool wet day around the first day of Autumn
to set off the blight. 2 of the 3 tomato plants exhibited
the classic black spots in the stems. Picked all the green
tomatoes off and put them in a box. May take 2-3 weeks
but most will turn red and be useable. I learned years
ago to not milk tomato plants infected with blight into
October and sometimes November. All you get is
disappointment and removing these vines in fall
cleanup is hazardous because of all the mold clouds
they produce when disturbed. My corn crop is pretty
much a "fail". Suspect my garden soil is shot (not
fertile enough) or it was our "tiny" summer. Either
way it's a dissapointment. I picked a few ears today,
sliced off the kernels and heated up on the stove.
Tasted OK but not magnificent. I've gotten corn from
two other growers nearby and it's the same result...
forgettable eats. So about all I got left to sample are
my carrots. Had to replant them in mid-June because
the first planting didn't take. They look heathy and
will only get better thru October. My apples on the
tree look about half the size they should be. Not
real sure if they are worth messing with. They could
all end up in the woods. Next decision is whether
to plant a shitload of garlic or not. October is the
month to do so.

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