It’s the middle of the {season} in {your hemisphere}.
How are things growing? Or not growing?
Any successes you’d like to share?
Any challenges that have made you learn?
Have you gotten to eat much of what you’ve grown?
How’s it going fellow gardeners?
Around here, I’m reminded why I don’t container garden. For some reason I can’t get anything to produce in containers. The ground is so much easier.
I was very lucky, for fathers day my wife got me a smallish hoop house and another cherry tree. I’ve finally put some things besides raspberries in the ground, so we’ll see how they go. I’m hoping to extend my growing season a bit beyond mid-september with this greenhouse.
It’s the second year with our fruit trees, I got to eat a cherry we grew, North Star, I look forward to actually getting cherries from it. Our little plum tree is trying very hard to give us a handful of fruits. No apples, pears, or peaches this year. I think a big part of it is local deer. They love the taste of fruit trees apparently. I’m glad to share once they get bigger, but right now it’s stunting their growth. We’ve adjusted our fencing around the trees, it seems to be helping.
I’m going to attempt fall peas soon, we’ll see how those go.
On the plus side, brussel sprouts are clipping along at a decent pace. Cherry tomatoes have been fairly productive. I’ve got cabbage going as well now, that seems ok. We’ve been able to harvest various herbs, which is always great. My wife has started preserving them.
I think hydroponics may be my best option for large tomatoes and peppers…
I hope everyone else is doing well!
If you are able to make a small hedge between the deer’s entry point and the fruit trees and put some fast-growing berry forming shrubs that deer can eat as a bait plant that is easier for them to access it might help, I’m looking to put in some cherry trees soon but due to space may try to get a single one that can self-pollinate
We have a game trail that runs along the tree line near our house, presumably from the river across the road to the farms on the other side of us. The best we’ve been able to do is essentially fence each tree in. If I don’t fence them fast enough or don’t adjust them as the trees grow, the deer will trim them for me lol. They crossed the driveway to the other side of the house to give my plum tree a haircut. Completely ignored the green fruit, but stripped almost all the leaves off because I hadn’t fenced it yet.
Both of our cherries are self pollinating, I can’t say how well it will work out yet as we haven’t really had them in long enough to know yet.