Many Thanks

 Hi Everyone!

Many thanks to all of you who commented on my garden. I also wanted to address some issues.

One of the comments is from Iris 

She wanted to know how I can be harvesting brussel sprouts in summer.

All of my brassicas have been doing exceptionally well because it has been and still is so cold this summer. That's the only thing I can think of.

Elizabeth mentioned my herbs on how healthy they are, and Katrina mentioned the heat with her plants. I don't have a heat problem here, however, when the sun does shine I do put shade covers over some of my plants. This keeps that direct sun off and causing trauma. You can also wet the shade cover to cool the plants down. I don't ever wet the leaves of plants. Not on purpose anyway. LOL

This garden site has new/baby plants and I want to keep them out of direct sun and of course the dreaded wind. I do open this up in the mornings.

Some plants thrive in the heat but even those plants, like humans, can get sunstroke.  Katrina mentioned that her plants are flower without fruit. For those of you who don't know that called, "bolting" and it happens for several reasons but two of them are heat and wind. A few ways to prevent bolting is to shade the plants, consistent watering, and mulching.  Here is my dill, it started to bolt but I decided to let it go. I still harvest from it. 

Something new I learned. New for me, the gardeners out there may already know this trick.

99.9% of my plants are started from seed. A week or so before I'm going to plant outside I start the hardening off process. The plants go out on my deck out of the sun and wind for several hours. After a week and if the plants look strong enough I plant them. Either in raised beds or 5 gallon containers. Once planted they get protection from the wind and sun until they are big enough to hold their own.

These are just about ready to be on their own. This method has truly worked against transplant shock.

As I have mentioned before, I'm no expert on gardening, I just know what works for me in my area. However, I do experiment with new growing techniques every year

On the other hand if this has helped you, then I'm happy.

What's in your garden? Let me know in the comments. 

 

Nicole