It is now official, Indianapolis had the driest August on record, with only 0.37 inches of rain recorded. While some areas around the city had more rain, my garden did not. Needless to say, it is dessert dry. The temperatures have also been very hot, with many 90 plus degrees days recorded. Only within the [...]
The weather has been very hot and extremely dry here in Central Indiana for the past 2 weeks. Heavy rain was scattered about, but none fell in my garden :-( Because of the heat, I have delayed planting out the broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower seedlings until today. I cannot wait any longer to get these [...]
The weather here in Central Indiana has been very hot, but at least it has rained enough to keep the garden producing without much supplemental watering. The tomatoes have produced a decent harvest despite the leaf disease. I was able to put up 7 containers of tomato sauce a few days ago. There are still [...]
Happy Independence Day!! While we enjoy our cookouts and fireworks today, please remember that freedom is not free. Take a moment to pray for all of our active duty military personnel and our veterans and make sure to thank them for their service.
The onions were pulled up this morning and are now drying over hardware [...]
Wow, what a difference in the garden since my last entry of 3 weeks ago. The garden has really taken off, especially the warm season veggies. I started harvesting broccoli on June 6th (YUM!!), which is at least several weeks earlier than normal. The cabbage loopers/worms have returned, so I have started spraying with bt. [...]
The mid-May garden is doing well and you can almost see daily growth from the plants. Generally, the garden seems to be slightly ahead of a normal year. The lettuce is growing very well and harvest continues about 3 times a week. Harvest will start soon on more green onions and a few radishes. The weather [...]
I think the weather is now relatively safe to plant out the warm season veggies here in Central Indiana. I took down the cold frame yesterday, cleaned it and put it away until next spring. The weather over the past few weeks has been seasonable, with just enough rain. There was a frost/lite freeze about [...]
Happy Belated New Year!! Winter has really set in now in the garden. As I am writing this post, it is 17 degrees outside with snow flurries coming down. It has been REALLY cold here in Central Indiana since Christmas day. The 2009 gardening season was quite successful for me. I tried several new things in the [...]
The garden was visited by ole Jack Frost on October 11th. Most of the plants that I wanted to save were covered with row covers, but some of the ends of the green beans were still nipped a little (low temps did not get below freezing, which is good). The garden continues to produce very [...]
My early fall garden continues to produce a nice harvest. The garden finally received some much needed rain. The weather continues to be somewhat cooler than normal. There was some frost last week in parts of central Indiana, but my garden luckily avoided any frost. Harvest begins today on some of the August planted broccoli [...]