Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:
Farm1 wrote:
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tough luck on the eggplant, do you usually have a
large harvest of it?

No, we don't ever have a large harvest of them because we're somewhat
marginal climate wide. I dont' ever plant more than a few plants as I'm too
mean to give them the space. We usually manage to get a few of the smaller
ones but I couldn't even manage to get them this year.

do you ever use black plastic around them?


new for me this season will be okra. i have seeds
and am waiting for certain warmth well past the last
frost date.

Good luck with them. IIRC I think David H-S mentioned growing some of them
last year

he's quite a ways away from where i am at,
yet i should be ok, my brother grows them at his
place a bit further north than here and has less
than full sun, still gets results.


We had no frosts but just not enough heat. No long stretches of extended
heat but just a few short sharp days of warmth and then back to coolish and
rain.

that would be a very very unusual summer here,
akin to one that would result from a major volcanic
eruption or the sun being masked from space...


My poor chooks
nealry drowned though given how much water was flowing through their
pens -
I can't recall a year with so much rain.

and now heading to the rainy winter season too? or
do things normally dry out there in the winter?

Our rain is usually fairly evenly distributed throughout the year but this
year has been very different to normal. Long range forecasters are saying
it should be about average rain, but I have no idea how good their
predictions are.

heh, well, ...


songbird