when are you sowing your garden this year?

[rbeau30]

Blossom End Rot on all my tomatoes!

SHIT!

Make a slurry of a handful of garden lime and a 5 gallons of water and water your tomatoes with it. Fix 'er right up! Won't reverse the ones that are already rotted, cut the ends off with a knife.



Update on my garden this year. My rain barrels were dry most of the year... I can count on one hand the days I got measurable rain. S
- Sunchokes did not so great this year... I got enough for a meal, but the rest were small. replanted them.
- Tomatoes did not as well this year as last.
- My Rocky Mountain Painted corn did okay. I mixed corn from last year with corn that I bought... hopefully I will make a local hybrid.
- Got two peaches from new trees...
- 100+ jelly jars of jelly from the grapes this year and still have about 5 dozen to make.
- Raspberries and Blackberries did well, 60 or so jam jars this year.
- Chopped down my pear and plum tree... bummer.
- Scarlet runner beans did better this year than last I think it was the placement of the beans ... less sun this year for them. 1 pint of dried beans from 12 beans.
- Cukes did great... didn't ferment any pickles this year had no time :-(
- Got about 8 - 5 gallon buckets of apples...

Got the salad mixes/kale and chard in the ground and built some cold frames... gonna see how long I can have salad.


Probably last year of gardening for me... not enough time and I can't do it all by myself.