5 Days after planting all the vegetables we got a snow storm. As you can see, I had to cover everything with a drop sheet to ensure that the snow stayed off of them. Thankfully most items (the cucumber seeds never did sprout) survived the freak snow storm.
May 16 - May 31, 2008
We had tons of rain, and even sheltering the plants by moving them closer to the house didn't help. Everything was so saturated with water, that it took a couple of weeks for things to dry out again. This seemed to dwarf alot of the plants, as they didn't grow much during this time period.
June, July & August, 2008
Nothing much seemed to happen with the plants, they grew a bit larger, but it seemed as if they never really did recover from all the bad weather at the start. We were able to harvest a lot of the lettuce - which was definitely nice to have a fresh piece of lettuce in our sandwiches. We also thought that we would be getting a great spinach crop, but one day it looked great and the next, everything was dead and shriveled up. I have no idea what happened to them - it was like a freak accident as nothing else showed any problems.
September 2008
Harvest time! Unfortunately, there was not much to harvest before the frost. All the tomatoes were mostly green (we had a couple that turned red, but they had a black spot on the bottom). We ended up with 5 green beans, 10 pea pods, some dill, cilantro, parsley, a 4-litre pail of green tomatoes and a couple of peppers that were tiny (they were supposed to be yellow Hungarian wax, but they never grew and ended up being a tiny red pepper). The strawberries never bloomed, the spinach and swiss chard died as well as the cucumbers didn't sprout until late July (I replanted it after the bad weather in May) and the catnip/lavender/basil never did anything either.
Unforunately it looks like the location of my patio (on the North Side) doesn't get much sun, so I will need to concentrate on plants that require shade next year and keep my fingers crossed that next years weather will be better than this years.
We had tons of rain, and even sheltering the plants by moving them closer to the house didn't help. Everything was so saturated with water, that it took a couple of weeks for things to dry out again. This seemed to dwarf alot of the plants, as they didn't grow much during this time period.
June, July & August, 2008
Nothing much seemed to happen with the plants, they grew a bit larger, but it seemed as if they never really did recover from all the bad weather at the start. We were able to harvest a lot of the lettuce - which was definitely nice to have a fresh piece of lettuce in our sandwiches. We also thought that we would be getting a great spinach crop, but one day it looked great and the next, everything was dead and shriveled up. I have no idea what happened to them - it was like a freak accident as nothing else showed any problems.
September 2008
Harvest time! Unfortunately, there was not much to harvest before the frost. All the tomatoes were mostly green (we had a couple that turned red, but they had a black spot on the bottom). We ended up with 5 green beans, 10 pea pods, some dill, cilantro, parsley, a 4-litre pail of green tomatoes and a couple of peppers that were tiny (they were supposed to be yellow Hungarian wax, but they never grew and ended up being a tiny red pepper). The strawberries never bloomed, the spinach and swiss chard died as well as the cucumbers didn't sprout until late July (I replanted it after the bad weather in May) and the catnip/lavender/basil never did anything either.
Unforunately it looks like the location of my patio (on the North Side) doesn't get much sun, so I will need to concentrate on plants that require shade next year and keep my fingers crossed that next years weather will be better than this years.
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