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Post by binnylou on Aug 17, 2020 17:37:46 GMT -5
Right now, I’m wishing I had planted some Sugar Baby watermelons. And I really wish I had planted pumpkins. They were in my plans, but the cattle panel that is their support is entwined in growth in the non groomed part of our property. Maybe I should weed whack a path to it and remove it before it becomes part of a tree. And when checking the flower garden this morning, I realized how empty it looks since the daylilies and phlox are finished with their bloom cycle. In previous years, the garden was full of blue salvia, pink, yellow, and white snapdragons, and Imagination Verbena. Those annuals provided color until first frost. I guess I didn’t realize I would miss them. Next year...
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Post by emmsmommy on Aug 18, 2020 1:43:53 GMT -5
Watermelons and pumpkins for sure. Hubby wants me to plant cantaloupe next year. I usually pick up a few impatiens but since I've limited my trips to town this year, I didn't get any. I'm wishing I planted more bush beans as I love the fact that cleaned my them is a breeze. Of course this was my first year seriously growing in raised beds, so it's definitely been a learning experience.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 18, 2020 8:42:01 GMT -5
I'm missing cantaloupes this year. Why did I think that was a good idea to skip?
I didn't get lobelia (crystal palace) planted this year, either, and really miss those too. And red rocket snapdragons and victoria blue salvia. I guess I was in a stupor this Spring.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Aug 18, 2020 10:04:55 GMT -5
I didn't get lobelia (crystal palace) planted this year, either, and really miss those too. And red rocket snapdragons and victoria blue salvia. I guess I was in a stupor this Spring. I am working on putting in perennial bushes and flowers. But I like to always have space for annuals, trying different flowers, large and small to give the garden a different look very year. Vegetables have always been my preference but since I have owned by own place I am experimenting a lot. So I wouldn't call it a stupor, perhaps your mind was just rearranging things for this year. Corn is my favorite out of the garden but some years I don't plant. I planted giant pumpkins which I love and will post a picture when I pluck them from the garden but these are way too much plant for my backyard. I wish my watermelon grew to get one but it did not. I do wish I planted more peas and beans. I also wish I was better at root veggies.
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Post by breezygardener on Aug 18, 2020 11:53:15 GMT -5
Too many things to mention didn't make it into my deck garden this year. The intense heat just hit a lot earlier than expected. But everything left over should still be viable next year & longer, so nothing really lost.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Aug 18, 2020 12:18:25 GMT -5
Storage vegetables, like potatoes, squash and pumpkins. I want to minimize grocery shopping trips as much as possible as we segue into and through Winter.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 18, 2020 14:43:53 GMT -5
So I wouldn't call it a stupor, perhaps your mind was just rearranging things for this year. Oh it was a stupor, alright. Between the intense heat that hit early and is still with us and the state of affairs we are living through (leading me to a low grade depression) I just haven't cared in the same way as years past. My flowers gardens are just about all perennials I only buy a 4 pack of each annual I like to stick here and there and in a couple of pots, to have some long lasting color.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Aug 18, 2020 14:53:31 GMT -5
My biggest regrets are: not planting more flowers, and not planting more vegetables than what I did plant earlier in this favorable gardening season.
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Post by emmsmommy on Aug 18, 2020 15:59:07 GMT -5
Storage vegetables, like potatoes, squash and pumpkins. I want to minimize grocery shopping trips as much as possible as we segue into and through Winter. Hoping my Kennebec harvest is better than my earlier potato harvest. Definitely planting more next year. My winter squash is starting to vine, so keeping my fingers crossed. Worried I planted too late. I do wish I had planted more corn though as it's my favorite. What I have was leftover seed my mom shared with me. Between the intense heat that hit early and is still with us and the state of affairs we are living through (leading me to a low grade depression) I just haven't cared in the same way as years past. The state of affairs has presented all of us with challenges this year. While I hope that things will start to look up, I can't help but think that we're five months into this crisis and that our lives will never be the same. I'm sorry this has led to depression for you desertwoman , I've been there and hope never to go back! The situation has had the opposite effect on me. I've never planted a fall harvest and very rarely a second harvest of anything. The reason? I've always worked in some form or another and usually by the time July and August rolled around, I was too tired and stressed to think about the garden, which led to weeds taking over. Actually my existing two raised beds were a mass of creeping Charlie when I started out this spring. I've tried to be meticulous about keeping notes this year and have already learned what works and what doesn't. My seed list for next year just keeps growing.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Aug 18, 2020 16:04:39 GMT -5
I grow self-seeding annual flowers -- zinnias, tithonia, red caster bean, mullein, marigolds, petunias, polygonum -- so I have a good display during warm seasons. There isn't anything that I think I should have planted and didn't. I did forget to plant dill. Instead of putting the seeds in the "unplanted" bag, I left them on the countertop to use in cooking and forgot to plant any. The weather has been adverse for vegetables, but for the most part they made something. Many of my plant experiments failed, but not all. At the moment, my minty epazote is flowering, and I have a butternut squash with crab-like leaves. Next year I will find out what these oddities will do.
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Post by gardendmpls on Aug 18, 2020 17:23:26 GMT -5
Forgot dill. Had to buy some today so I could use for pickling tomorrow.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 18, 2020 19:29:05 GMT -5
I'm sorry this has led to depression Thanks for your care, emmsmommy. I really appreciate it. It's not anything that can't be handled. Just an assessment of where I'm at if I look at it honestly and with clear eyes. It hasn't interfered with what I need to get done. It 's just been taking longer to get motivated. Periodic low grade depression is considered normal. We all go through it at times. And if there is ever a time that warrants it, it's now. Fortunately I've never experienced clinical and deep depression. I've counseled many people over the years who have struggled with it and it's an understatement to say it is a challenge.
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Post by emmsmommy on Aug 18, 2020 20:00:11 GMT -5
desertwoman , so glad it's not serious. I could have used counseling years ago when I had it, but instead the docs pushed antidepressants on me saying it would make everything better.
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Post by Mumsey on Aug 19, 2020 3:43:56 GMT -5
I wish I had planted fewer peppers, since I don't make salsa any more. And less Kale, more carrots and cabbage.
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Post by datgirl on Aug 19, 2020 5:42:58 GMT -5
Pumpkins and gourds. I quit planting them because the squash bugs were so bad that I just decided to not deal with them.
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