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Good Pea Weather

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It is often a real crap shoot if we will get a good crop of peas in our garden. Peas and spinach are hard to grow out here because the ground isn’t ready for planting until late May or early June, and then it gets too hot and dry by the end of June for good growth, This year has been really different, as June and July have been cool and wet. Our peas are flourishing. It is weird for things to work out like this for us.

We planted six trenches of peas, one on either side of three pea fences we constructed a couple of years ago with the help of the neighbor children. We water with soaker hoses to reduce powdery mildew. This last week, every time I look at the peas it seems that new pods have grown overnight.

We are grateful that things seem to have worked out just right for a good pea harvest. Once the peas are done we will pull them up and plant spinach. I hope the stars align for a cool and long fall for a banner spinach harvest.

When have things unexpectedly worked out just right for you? What has this summer’s weather been like for you and your garden and yard?

29 thoughts on “Good Pea Weather”

  1. Robin and I, my daughter and her kids went yesterday, as we do every summer, to pick blueberries at a farm near Lake Pepin. Often it’s sunny and hot. Last year we couldn’t make it until near the end of the season and the picking was sparse.

    Yesterday was overcast and cool, relatively. It’s early in the picking season and this, as it happens, has been an extraordinary year for their blueberries. The bushes were so loaded that we scarcely had to move from bush to bush and in about two hours we had picked about ten pounds of blueberries for us and twenty five for my daughter. That’s a lot of blueberries.

    The place is lovely, on top of the bluff, with extensive flower gardens and a picnic area where we had lunch before starting back home with our blueberry haul.

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  2. The weather has been good for walking even though the Canadian fires put up enough haze that you can look directly at the Sun.
    Happy Moon Walk Day!

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  3. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Yesterday’s poetry was so much fun. Thanks all.

    Garden report: Way too dry. I am watering 1-2 times per week. Beets, kohlrabi, carrots are all thriving. I am getting cherry tomatoes in quantity and the other tomatoes are loaded with green fruit. Flowers do not like the heat.

    I have a Master Gardener gig this morning so I must check in more later. 3 days of work left.

    My good bye open house for friends and professionals will be Sept 22 3-6pm

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    1. Another sad day in what seems like an endless string of sad days as so many great actors, musicians, artists, etc., are dying. Tony was one of my all-time favorite singers, up there with Sinatra. I was extremely fortunate to see him live once in Chicago some 25 years ago.

      Chris in Owatonna

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  5. The weather was perfect for a trip to Door County in early June. I went with three other women and we stayed in Sturgeon Bay in a cabin my friend found on AirBnB. The day we went to Washington Island and saw the stavkirke and the lavender farm was absolutely perfect. It was sunny and in the mid-70s with a light breeze. We rode across “Death’s Door” on the ferry with no fear of actual death. The forecast was for rain moving in the day after we left. We were there in the window of perfect weather!

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  6. I have no lawn to call my own. That’s ok. If I had a lawn, I’d be replacing it with native plants. I have my little garden in pots on my deck. It’s really hot on my deck. Today it will easily get up to 100 degrees on my deck. It faces south and the sunlight reflects off the patio doors turning my deck into a little solar oven. It’s really nice in March but a little more challenging at this time of year. Anyway, the Brandywine tomato plant is really producing. I have four ripe tomatoes and five more green ones on the plant. I really do like Brandywine tomatoes if they make it without getting some kind of wilt.

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  7. Yesterday evening was perfect for Third Thursday in Northfield. The City closes off a block downtown near Bridge Square and vendors set up in the street. All of the downtown stores are open, including my favorite “Vintage”. I got a chance to talk with Chris and buy his new book. I rode my moped and on the way home I found a dollar bill! It was a very pleasant thing to do on a summer evening.

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  9. Several times, it seems, just the right job has landed in my lap – at least for That Moment. My teaching gigs, messenger in NYC, the consulting group, bookstores… And in one case, the work wasn’t so great, but it brought me together with someone important (Husband’s sister).

    Garden is doing pretty well, though the zucchini so far have one end kind of rotting… drought related?

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    1. That is blossom end rot. Caused by too much nitrogen fertilizer ans/ or uneven watering, which makes it hard for the plants to absorb calcium fr9m the soil.

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  13. Anything that is still alive in my garden gets a participation trophy for just making it through the dry days.

    I still have tomatoes and peppers and an eggplant that appears to have been chewed by some garden pest. Also potatoes.

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