Feeling so Blessed with Abundance

[solargeek]

Central WI had a long cold spring. I couldn't plant most anything outside till JUNE!!!! Normally I put a few hardier plants late April and fully plant by Mother's Day. We lost another 6 fruit trees (luckily under warranty) between last fall and this spring.

Well, I have an abundance of: arugula (planted June), lettuce, peapods, beans, HERBS as big as a barn! (except the poor basil which hates 50F nights), radishes, POTATOES I am already harvesting (you gotta realize no one plants potatoes early here as we get late snows/cold but MARTIN Paqueboat here told me I could and boy I just harvested several pounds!), AND SOME TOMATOES.

Tonight as for the last couple of days, will be a complete harvest dinner.

Praise God for the great comeback of my garden as all is organic, I am unskilled, and it is 7500 sq ft so very labor intensive.

Re-planting lettuces, beans and peas for a hoped for later harvest.

How is everyone else in WI and the cold north doing?

[Skandi]

We can't plant anything at all frost sensitive outside until june, this year we got a light frost at the end of june anyway. and the temp here has not climbed over 60F so nothing is doing much, last two years it's been 80 ish by now so this is just depressing, sugarsnap peas are comming in slowly, early potatos as well, but the tomatoes are only in flower, ebven though they are in the greenhouse.

[melco]

I'm so glad your having an abundance.

[paquebot]

My problem is usually to prevent having an extreme glut rather than mere abundance. Snap and snow peas are done but wife has some stashed away in one of the freezers. Went to check on one of the pole beans to see if it might be going to blossom soon and picked a hat full. New potatoes have been in the kitchen for 3 weeks and salad tomatoes for almost as long. Tired already of eating beets and their greens but trying to keep the chard from bolting. Today, dug over 300 garlic which leaves a lot of bare ground. I'd plant something but that would just give us more abundance to try to figure out what to do with.

Martin

[shin]

Nothing like an abundance of herbs potatoes and tomatoes and a harvest dinner!

[Deleted]

We are in central WI as well. Currently swimming in green beans, peas, broccoli, head lettuce and cabbage. The potatoes are huge already. We planted the first peas 4/14 and the potatoes shortly after. Most people in this area plant cold crops way too late and then have poor yields.

[susannah]

Glad you're having such an abundance. Truly is a blessing.

I'm in far northern Wisconsin. Lettuce and other greens continue to produce well, since we haven't been all that hot. Yet. It might be getting hot this weekend, finally. Cherry tomato plants are going crazy. I tried a new to me variety this year - Koralik. Was told it's very prolific and yes - it is. That's a very good thing. I haven't had the greatest of luck with full size tomatoes due to the lack of full sun everywhere except over the septic leach bed. Umm...no thank you. But the cherry tomatoes I have in large tubs on wheeled wooden stands so they can "follow the sun" - with a little assistance from me. They're on the huge deck we have - elevated deck and the deer have not (yet) shown me that they can climb stairs. For which I am grateful.

Most herbs are growing like crazy. Chives are absolutely huge for the second year in a row.