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Re: Anybody there?

Responding to Jim's query about the paucity of List activity, LauraA said,
>Still here, just frustrated. Run of bad luck and injury has turned garden
>into a wasteland of weeds and disappointment. Am working on a project for a
>website for another group and keeping very busy.  Still watching the mail and
>hope to get back in the swing in time to at least get some quick fall crops
>in.  To paraphrase Scarlett O'Hara, tomorrow is another day.......

This *has* been a very weird gardening season, at least here in the
mid-Atlantic states.  Judy Cosler, who gardens a few miles from me, lost
everything, too.  My own raised beds (first year) are performing but in
somewhat unexpected ways.  The sweet pepper crop has been basically awol all
season.  Though peppers are heat lovers, my plants just didn't make fruit
during the hottest part of the summer, though they are looking livelier in
the last week or so.  The few fruit that did set had such thin walls they
were almost not worth growing.

My tomatoes almost all cracked despite near-daily waterings during our
drought.  Every single Brandywine and Cherokee Purple has been ringed by
concentric circular cracks on the shoulders!  Flavor of all varieties has
been outstanding, though.

The local crows are feasting on my toms (caught 'em at it early one morning).

My melon 'Jenny Lind' vines (3 planted; 2 survived) produced exactly ONE
melon, and it turned ripe when the size of two fists held together.  Not
exactly what the label suggested.

The paprika peppers, however, have been productive.  Following Doreen's
suggestion, I'm leaving the fruits on the vines until they get "dark red and
leathery," then harvesting and grinding.

If you're a paprika lover, send me a private note with your snail-mail
address and I'll figure out a way to send you some.

Hope to plop some spinach seeds into the beds this weekend.  We often don't
get frost until Thanksgiving here, so there's good gardening left in the
greater D.C. area.  We lost virtually the whole spring to excessive rain and
cold temps.  Then no rain practically the entire summer.  A couple good
drenches last week perked the lawns up, though.

--Janet
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com

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