The end of July & 7 weeks until frost?

So, here it is, the end of July 2010. Last fall, after 7 L O N G years of condo living I moved into a house. I have been hankering for another garden for so long and I have been quite happy with my brand new vegetable garden.
I am tooting my horn; It has been a good season for me growing beets, chard, shallots, Brussels sprouts, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and summer squash. Early on the peas and spinach were great. Not so good a season for carrots & dill, the cukes petered out and the beans are being very slow. This past month we have had 18 days over 90F, which is crazy hot for NH. Rainfall is 4 inches shy of normal.
Last year was such a difference. We had 20+days of temps in the 60s and record rainfall AND we had the late blight pass through. It was awful.
I do not know how to make my photos smaller thus I'm sure I am taking up a ton of server space.
March 20, 2010. setting up the garden


July 26, 2010, front bed has, eggplant, 3 varieties of peppers, basil, onions and my Gilbertie tomatoes.


Brussels Sprouts, 7/26/10


Gilbertie Toms


Purple Gypsy


Nadia aubergine


Red and gold beets, I had 2 squares of each and I pulled the ones big enough to can.


Planting more shallots


Lipstick pimento peppers


The last of the shell peas before it got too hot and the vines died.


Zukes and summer squash in the dehydrator.



The Kentucky Wonder pole beans that were, according to the seed packet, supposed to max out at 8 feet. This trellis is 10 feet tall. Blooms began 7/28/10.


Well pruned tomato plants allowing for air circulation and sunlight for the smaller onion and basil plants.

camprn: what a GREAT success!!. Your garden is beautiful. The beets are amazing. What is a Gilbertie tom, is it a pepper or a tomato? Very distinctive. Please keep the pics coming!!!

This is awesome. And very encouraging!

The Gilbertie is a heirloom variety of sauce tomato, very fleshy with few seeds. You can order the seed from High Mowing seed co. in Vermont. The Striped Roman (below) is a similar variety of tomato.


The canning has commenced. Left to right, peach conserve, pickled beets, bread & butter pickles.

Woman, I am amazed at you garden! So healthy and lovely. I totally understand the 180 in weather compared to last year.

Whatcha planting after you pull the peas? How many beets did you do to a square?

chocolatepop wrote:Woman, I am amazed at you garden! So healthy and lovely. I totally understand the 180 in weather compared to last year.

Whatcha planting after you pull the peas? How many beets did you do to a square?

I'm a bit amazed myself. It's a bit late but I planted peas earlier this week. I am going to try for another crop of sugar snap peas for the freezer.
The beets... I tend to seed heavy, I think I seeded 25-30 in a square, most all sprouted and I ate quite a lot of greens. There are a few small beet plants left in the squares. I will probably throw in a few more seed. Fingers crossed for good fall harvest.

WOW, that is amazing!!! I am hoping to put in a few more squares this weekend.

Absolutely fantastic! I've been gardening for 50+ years and am downright green with envy. Thank you so much for the pics.

Wow, what a great garden for you this year. You certainly surpassed mine in Maine. Your veggies are ahead of mine. I'm looking forward to pickles this year.
I hope the weather holds up as expected. Its been lovely here in the northeast, starting with an early spring.
Love your garden. Its great.

Thank you all for the kind words!

wonderful garden! i started too late this year. what means zone 5a? in austria we have to wait until 15th of may (recommended) to be totally safe from last frost. and do you know, why my radishes don't become round? greetings from vienna! nanni

marianne.bruckner wrote:wonderful garden! i started too late this year. what means zone 5a? in austria we have to wait until 15th of may (recommended) to be totally safe from last frost. and do you know, why my radishes don't become round? greetings from vienna! nanni

Hi Marianne, I'm visiting/working in your fair city this summer. June was great except the heat was so high near the end of the month. I saw a headline saying it was hotter in Vienna than in Africa. But so much of July has been chilly and wet that I wonder how veggie gardens are doing. It warmed up some yesterday, but still very cloudy.



Kay



BTW,

Marianne,

I, too, have a last frost date of May 15th in my zone 5a area so I think we must be the same growing zone. I had to start late this year tho because of the deep snow cover in our area and then we got 90*F plus temps in the spring which killed some of my cool-weather crops (broccoli, cauliflower). The warm-weather crops are doing well though, but I have to water them deep twice a day when it hits 90F.



My garden still doesn't look as good as yours, Camprn, but I'm getting there. I have a Gilbertie tomato which is much smaller than yours among my several varieties but so far only Early Cherry, San Marzano Nano, Siberskiy, Olivade F1, Harvest Luck (cluster tom), Beaverlodge Slicer, and Glacier have given me ripe tomatoes. I have over a dozen other varieites I'm waiting on.



Lets keep our fingers crossed for a good season the rest of the year.

Appropriate bump. I never would have seen this otherwise. 7 weeks? Wow, I don't like your short season for you. However, I suppose you don't get weeks of oppressive heat like the deep south, either. I suppose it's yin and yang.