Why Some Gardens Grew Poorly This Year
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It was pretty wet this spring in my area of Ontario, too. I had zero luck with beets, radishes, or brassicas of any kind. Garlic, potatoes and tomatoes did well! And my three "girls" are truly amazing and luscious!! So I guess it was an okay year.
Thanks for the video!! All the best to you!
I'm in the north-west of Ireland, so not vastly removed from NS. Except we have much milder, wet winters. Your good/rough crops this year are almost the mirror opposite of mine. My soft neck garlic did pretty well, but the hard necks were barely worth harvesting.
I lost all my cucurbits twice. Commercial farmer up the road said they had to plant squash three times. A learning year for sure. My baked beans sprouted in the pods. Just more rain then i was prepared for.
Lost more than half of my dry beans to spouting in pods. I planted 650 pumpkins and lost all to root rot and squash bugs ( Was unable to use Demetrius Earth to control them because of the rain days).
Oh yeah Greg...this year was a challenge. Here in SW Ontario we went into an early super hot summer. When rains came it was just a nice drizzle it was heaving bucket fulls of rain, onr rainfall dropped 7 - 9" of rain in a matter of a few hours!!!!
My leeks this year are amazing, garlic was excellent, onions and peppers did well (peppers where in my only raised bed as all my other beds are only an inch or two above grade the pepper bed is 10" above grade) tomatoes where middling at best, no beets, carrots where ok, parsnips are sparse, potatoes where an utter failure (between squirrels and rot due to high moisture), chard got along ok, collards are looking good as well going into the fall. But I agree that the beds that did best where mulched with grass clippings - I use a ton of those every year!
Anyway, lessons learned and on to next year!
Have a great day Greg and Thank you for the video!
Mike
Spring showers type weather is great. A few bright dry days, with a few rainy ones in between. Instead, we got six weeks of very sunny, and dray weather in Spring when plants are trying to get established. Then we had heavy cloud and non-stop rain for another six weeks.
So I think it's a mix of the two. A rough time getting established, then no sun. Plus the nitrogen being flushed outs of the topsoil. It was a bad year for lettuce here. If I planted it when I normally would, it would only bolt with the really hot weather. Then it was that wet the slugs, and snails, would have just wiped them out.
Leeks, sweetcorn, and cabbage etc all did well. Tomatoes, pumpkins, chillies and the like just shutdown early on, and had a hard time getting going with six weeks of very dark days with constant rain. I'm actually thinking about overwintering my chilli plants to get a head start next year.
Willows behind my plot were giving up their leaves because of the six weeks of hot sunny weather. I had net curtains pegged to lines above my tomatoes, so they weren't getting too badly cooked in a poly as hot as North Africa. Early set was OK, and produced good-sized fruit. Then everything shut down, and they had the classic curled up leaves from too much heat/sun. It looked like none of the trusses were pollinated.
The vast majority were, but the plants had shut down to wait out the crazy hot weather. So when they did wake up again it was to six weeks of dark cloudy days. Stunted plants hanging with tomatoes, that aren't getting the sun to ripen. I have had some really nice large tomatoes this year, but I had to ditch a lot of others to get those.
The sun barely came out in Cape Breton this summer. Everything was weeks behind in the garden. My beans did great though!
This year I put irrigation weeping hoses all through my raised beds. I actually turned on the taps from the rain barrels once or twice...then we had "a little" rain. lol
My peas didn't do too bad, my waxed beans (climbing) did great (over ten feet high and great beans), beets did so-so but what did grow were very tasty, carrots are still good, potates did good too. Cukes did nothing at all, not a single seed germinated.
The Marigolds I plant to keep the deer away have grown just dandy. The bees have been enjoying the beautiful fall flowers.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
Cheers from NB
Way too much rain and not enough sun here in Tantallon with smoke from local fires, fires from Quebec, BC and even the NWT. In addition to the rain, very high humidity caused my tomato harvest to rot. I mulched with straw this year but next, I am going back to my old standard of leaves and seaweed.
That was SUPER information. Thanks Greg from Dwayne in Suwanee Ga.
Where I live in southeast Alaska on the coast, we get 15 FEET! Of rain a year. What I do is cover my beds with plastic when we get a hard rain or too much rain. That helps.
NE Oregon had snow up until May, then a mix of mild and hot temps, a freak frost for three days around June 20th, then back to 90 degrees and a wet early fall. My brassicas did well through June and July and my acorn and carnival squash went gang busters, everything else was just so-so. Less than normal potatoes and onions. Peppers barely fruited. Sunflowers grew 8 feet tall but didn't flower until September. It was a weird growing season for me.
My garden did ok this year but we had off and on rainfall during the growing season. In regard to the climate I wouldn't worry too much about it. Personally I haven't noticed any significant change in my garden after almost 45 years in gardening. Also they have been predicting climate catastrophes since the 60's that haven't come true so personally I think everyone just needs to relax and enjoy their garden.
We used to get a hurricane here about every 30 years. Now we get one or more every year. We also had a week of wildfires all over the province that was so bad it affected the air quality in NY. The damage from rain this year was the worst in 50 years and caused millions of dollars in damage to homes and infrastructure. So, yes, I feel you, I'm all for relaxing, but these were real, tangible climate catastrophes.
@@maritimegardening4887 : please get ready , tropical storm Phillipe is heading your way , and will be there soon !!!!
We had the wettest July on record, and the hottest September on record.
Even if you don't want to believe in climate change, we should still not be polluting our planet, surely?
@@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329 I agree 100% and I believe climate is changing as it always has. I just question the CO2 narrative and don't buy into the hysteria. I do my share of research on the subject and feel there is a alternative agenda in all this. But I'm completely against any pollutants we are putting in the air, water or soil.
A lot of rain this year is every summer in the West of Scotland. We have unusually had a few cold dry springs.
it stands to reason that lots of rain or too much watering washes out nutrients and you have to replenish it....I find that raised beds, especially the tall wooden kind that I use, dry out quickly and need to be watered more, thus I needed to fertilize more frequently....this despite the fact that I compost religiously.
That's really great tips Greg. Thank!
Really good information, makes sense!!
We had a heat wave in my area poor crop this year
Sounds good!
Also roots need air...lots of rain can drown plants.
I didn't have to much rain this year but less than needed. You gave a good explanation of what can happen when we get to much rain. I never gave it to much thought before. Thanks !
I had dug a pond built on the lower part of garden. This was intended to have a nutrient rich water source for mid summer dry period. This summer was insane the amount of rain. I used the water to feed the garden. Some crops ended with root rot while others loved the wet soil. This year would of been great celery growing year if Nitrogen is returned to garden beds via drainage water recycled.
I like your idea of grass clippings as mulch versus composting it like I do.
I thought there was dissolved nitrogen in rain? I am a grass clipping as a mulch person. Had an amazing garden with ridiculously large plants and produce. Guess that's why. I do know the grass clippings disappeared quicker than normal this year. Couple inches would be gone in 2-3 weeks. Good thing the grass grew ridiculously well this year too.
The nitrogen that plants use is not nitrogen in the form of pure nitrogen gas, but in organic compounds containing nitrogen. 12:08
Great video... I have some issues here
Harvested Garlic in late July, planted field peas as a cover crop during the first week of August! They’re doing well! Next year I’ll be planting Field Peas again in previously harvested beds! Weer in Norther Alberta 15mi North of 55. Seems like our season is extended which is fine for gardening! Planted potatoes first week of May, early for my garden! Used a leaf and grass clipping mulch on them! Potatoes seemed to do better with a heavier mulch!
Yes potatoes love the heavy mulch :)
So diisapointewd with my tomatos this year, not only did many rot on the vines but those I did rescue were pulpy and tasteless.
Your analysis makes sense to me. I’m my garden (which is not far from you) the leafy greens and herbs grew well; anything that bore fruit did poorly. Yields were down for cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and potatoes. Carrots, beets, and parsnips seem good. Beans were about normal. Everything finished early. We needed less rain and more sun. Better luck next year?
Do the tree services deliver wood chips for free or is there a charge?
There's usually a charge for me since I'm way out in the boonies. I find them hard to contact in general. If you are lucky enough to have one of the them working down the street they will sometimes dump for free out of convenience.
@Maritime Gardening : please get ready ; another tropical storm ( Phillipe ) is heading your way in a few days !!!!
yep... that seems to be the new normal now I guess :)
Sounds possible,but I thought when you had a rain storm with lots of thunder and lightning it creates nitrogen in the air that falls in the rain.Thats why every thing looks so lush and green after a bad storm.I could be mistaken.
Yes, there can be small amounts of nitrogen dissolved in rain sometimes, and if the soil can absorb it then it provides a net benefit, but with excessive rain it all just goes wherever the rain goes.
The nitrogen that plants use is not nitrogen in the form of pure nitrogen gas, but in organic compounds containing nitrogen.
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