What's Growing in the Garden

I wish we would cool off and get a little moisture. We're caught in a high pressure system with highs in the mid 80's and humidity in the 20's. Getting way too dry for this early in the season.
 
We had good soaking rain all day yesterday and bad storms today. Creeks are almost out of the banks. River is rolling. Both are like chocolate milk. Calling for spotty rain through Friday
 
trc65 said:
They are talking 93 here in Thursday. That's a little too hot, a little too early for west central Illinois.
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Too dry for you? Didn't you get the same rain we got? We had record rainfall for the month of April and it's still raining every week in May. Too wet to get in the garden.
 
djg said:
Too dry for you? Didn't you get the same rain we got? We had record rainfall for the month of April and it's still raining every week in May. Too wet to get in the garden.
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Nope, all those nasty systems stayed from about Quincy and south. We had 3/4" of rain mid April, a tenth around the first of May and that's it. Corn and bean planting was done here by about the first of May. Illinois as a whole only had ~35% of the corn acres planted by then.

We've had a couple of high pressure "caps" that have stagnated over us and kept all the systems going north or south, or blocking the current one keeping it to the east.

Haven't had to water the garden yet, but I'm probably going to water the strawberries tomorrow. Probably have the first berries in under a week.
 
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They’re talking 103-104 in San Antonio through the week. We’re closer to the coast so about 8-10 degrees cooler. But with higher humidity we’ll have a heat index of 104… It’s tough to keep enough water on the garden in that kind of heat.

Alan
 
We had a high of 56 today, with another inch of rain. That works out to 10 inches of rain in 14 days. Supposed to stop raining Friday and reach near 80 degrees Saturday. We had about 50-75 blossoms on the peach tree, a few dozen on the pear trees and nearly none on the apples. Looks like another bad fruit year. Corn fields aren't planted yet either.
 
Still a little too early in the season to put plants outside, we haven't had a frost for a while but a early June frost is always a possibility. My tomatoes plants are loving my unheated greenhouse, I roll the sides up for a few hours every day to let the wind blow through to harden them up. I have them on a pallet so if a hard frost threatens I can grab them with me tractor fork and move them to the garage for the night. IMG_20250514_141942102.webp
 
Got a decent storm hitting tonight, so went up on the roof to blow out the gutters. Took a couple of pictures.

Main garden area is 60' x 60' there is a 15' x 90' area behind that and then a strip of red raspberries and strawberries. The "orchard" is to the right of the shed. I've got three other areas of ~ 800-900 ft² each that I use for pumpkins and gourds. The black raspberries are on the other side of the shed.

This is looking roughly SE. To the south is a field of corn.

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trc65 said:
Got a decent storm hitting tonight, so went up on the roof to blow out the gutters. Took a couple of pictures.

Main garden area is 60' x 60' there is a 15' x 90' area behind that and then a strip of red raspberries and strawberries. The "orchard" is to the right of the shed. I've got three other areas of ~ 800-900 ft² each that I use for pumpkins and gourds. The black raspberries are on the other side of the shed.

This is looking roughly SE. To the south is a field of corn.

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I am quoting Li’l Mikey per his recent post on question of the week regarding `aesthetics’. “When @Arn213 says he likes it!”………I like it @Mike hill…..but where is the baseball field with the 440’ centerfield fence? :sarcastic:
 
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