With This Summer’s Rain, Gardens Are Going A Bit Insane – Check This One Out!

We thought it would be fun to share an update from a real, live garden for you today.

Here’s one that is thriving, despite the plants having wet feet for weeks now. Check out these crazy squash plants, and let us know what you think!

And please share your comments below – is your garden going nuts this year, or not so much?

Well, here we are in mid-July, and it’s been quite an interesting summer so far…. What a year to start a huge, brand new garden! With almost non-stop rain for the past 6 weeks, this is unlike any summer I have ever seen before, but apparently most of the plants are enjoying all the water. The raspberry patch, and our new fruit trees are the main casualties, but little else seems too bothered by the consistent flooding, and in fact, most of the garden seems extremely happy.

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The tomatoes seem positively overjoyed with all the water, and have formed an impenetrable forest wherever they are planted. Although I thought I gave them plenty of room when planting, they seem determined to spread ever further into each others’ personal space. Constant staking and tying is the order of the day, but I can never seem to keep up with it.  After a somewhat slow start, with lots of blooms but no fruit, they are suddenly so heavily laden with tomatoes that I can’t even keep their cages and stakes upright!

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Below is the insanity that is summer squash…. Although these are up on bales of hay, the upper-chest height of the leaves still seems extreme to me, and they are actually completely crowding out the green beans and sweet peppers that I so foolishly planted in nearby bales.

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