@gardening
Seems like a good time for a seasonal reckoning here! I’m a second year gardener, finishing up my second summer on the Puget Sound, so almost everything is new to me. I tend to ramble so I’ll try to thread this.
My particular bit of the world was rainy and cool for a long time this spring, then stayed cool and dried out all summer. We had one short heat wave in the mid 80s (I know) but that’s it, it’s back to crispy and cool now. The vast majority of my beds have drip irrigation, so the garden is ok.
The only thing I tried to grow this year that just utterly failed, no second chance, was #onions. I planted seeds in compost that was too rough and too cold, and I didn’t react in time to replant. Last year’s onions, in a different bed, grew like mad but then flowered early. Lots of lessons learned, and why not, I’ve ordered some fall onion sets. Onwards!
@gardening the mixed bag:
My #peas had the same problem as the onions - compost too rough, ground too cold. But I really wanted peas, and I kept re sowing them until I got a few. Oregon Sugar Peas are absolutely my favorite and I’m going to plant so many more next spring. I eat them raw in the garden.
I failed out repeatedly planting #lettuce in one particular bed, but when I moved to a different bed, I grew two extremely fine crops. I used Adaptive Seeds Summer Lettuce Mix.
I’m still scandalized that carrot maggot flies infested my puny #carrots! There were enough for me to have a few and the equines to have a handful of snacks, otherwise I’d call them failures. I gave them some very nice, fine sandy soil and drip irrigation and they sullenly tried to die, over and over. They are the only plants so far this year with insect damage to the bits I want to eat. I tried like five varieties from four different sources, so it’s not them, it’s me.
I still really want carrots, and I’m thinking about where to plant a winter crop.