Garden 2024

[Mad Trapper]

My garden is going to hell.

I dislocated my shoulder and have in terrible pain since. Doctor won't prescribe pain meds

[StratBastard]

My garden is going to hell.

I dislocated my shoulder and have in terrible pain since. Doctor won't prescribe pain meds

Yep. I tore my forearm AND calf muscle, both left limbs gimped up pretty good. I'm hobbling around like Quasimodo... all I need now is a lazy eye and a hump. No pain meds either.

[Mad Trapper]

Yep. I tore my forearm AND calf muscle, both left limbs gimped up pretty good. I'm hobbling around like Quasimodo... all I need now is a lazy eye and a hump. No pain meds either.

Sorry to hear that Strat.

What stopped doctors prescribing pain meds was the flood of opiates coming across the open borders and resulting ODs.

I was prescribed oxycontin for more than a month twice, over 10 years ago. When the pain stopped so did the drugs.

I resorted to drinking this time just so I could get to sleep, I can't keep that up for too long and am just in pain now.

I have a vial of prescribed oxy at my other place left over from long ago that I didn't need. I need the pain to get to a level I can drive my truck there, 4-SPD so tough to drive with one arm.

[StratBastard]

[Broncosfan]

We basically gave up on our garden becasue of our drought conditions. We still have enough tomatoes and peppers we just didn't can any this year. The drought seems to be forcing everything early this year. We picked 67 lbs of concord grapes today. After washing and removing stems and the bad grapes we ended up with 57lbs. Lots of jam to start making soon. Apples look fairly good even with out drought conditions. The color isn't right yet so I'm thinking at least a week maybe 2. We will freeze slices of apples and make plenty of applesauce. Old pear tree is loaded. I think it will make it. Pick those in October and let them ripen a few days before canning

[Inor]

We basically gave up on our garden becasue of our drought conditions. We still have enough tomatoes and peppers we just didn't can any this year. The drought seems to be forcing everything early this year. We picked 67 lbs of concord grapes today. After washing and removing stems and the bad grapes we ended up with 57lbs. Lots of jam to start making soon. Apples look fairly good even with out drought conditions. The color isn't right yet so I'm thinking at least a week maybe 2. We will freeze slices of apples and make plenty of applesauce. Old pear tree is loaded. I think it will make it. Pick those in October and let them ripen a few days before canning

You, Sir, are a freakin' magician with the gardens/orchards!

Thanks to your encouragement, I did not cut down my apple and pear trees the last couple years out of frustration and this year we are finally getting both apples and pears! WOO HOO!!! They are still small, but at least they are producing something! Last year, I think we maybe got a total of 7 apples. This year they are loaded with smallish apples. This is the first year we have gotten ANY pears. They are not ripe yet so it is still too soon to tell if they are any good. But at least it is something for all the investment of water, fertilizer, etc.

Now if we could get the cherries, apricots and pomegranates to produce,

The almonds also are looking good.

The olives we planted last year are growing like weeds. I doubt I will live long enough to actually see them start making olives. But they are still fun to watch grow.

[Broncosfan]

You, Sir, are a freakin' magician with the gardens/orchards!

Thanks to your encouragement, I did not cut down my apple and pear trees the last couple years out of frustration and this year we are finally getting both apples and pears! WOO HOO!!! They are still small, but at least they are producing something! Last year, I think we maybe got a total of 7 apples. This year they are loaded with smallish apples. This is the first year we have gotten ANY pears. They are not ripe yet so it is still too soon to tell if they are any good. But at least it is something for all the investment of water, fertilizer, etc.

Now if we could get the cherries, apricots and pomegranates to produce,

The almonds also are looking good.

The olives we planted last year are growing like weeds. I doubt I will live long enough to actually see them start making olives. But they are still fun to watch grow.

I'm really discourage this year. The drought and heat have worn me down. I tried to water but it was just too much for us. The grape harvest was about 50% of a good normal year. I always make too much grape jam. We're adding 500-600 gallons of water a day to the pond just to try to save the fish. We used 13,500 gallons of water last month. They came back out an reread my meter. I'm adding "SAFE" to take the chlorine out. So hopefully it will be okay. Lucky the fruit trees in the field are established enough that they seem to be okay. Honestly I'm ready for fall!

[MountainGirl]

Not a good year down here, either.
We don't garden, but the place near us that has a produce stand, and 10 acres of large variety of veggies, potatoes corn beets carrots peppers greens tomatoes beans onions everything, lost it all. Heat and rains. Sad for us, very sad for them. Any produce to purchase is now over 40 miles away.

[Chiefster23]

My garden is basically done. The tomatoes have late blight so they will be dead in a week or 2. I still have some sweet peppers but they didn’t produce much this year. There are a few red beets left and some carrots. Everything else is done and plants removed. I got a lot of peaches this year. Some plums and good blueberry harvest. The apple trees are loaded. All and all a pretty good year. I used a ton of water due to the dry summer. Looking forward to next year but some adjustments will be made due to increasing age and arthritis.

[BucketBack]

I started the seeds on tax day like the last 2 years. The tomatoes are small and green, peppers are small. 45 degree nights seem to halt the growing process