First off, I absolutely love your posts! And your son deserves a big congrats for getting a PR! And on his first varsity meet no less! That is truly amazing!
Secondly, I love how informative you are, and all the tips you give out on how you get the best yields on plants for your specific microclimate! Our climate is very humid most of the time, however, as is in most of the states, the weather can be pretty unpredictable! (2 months ago we had a week of snow, followed by a week of 70° sunshine, then the following day had another 2 inches of snow!) You also got me wishing I would have went through with planting the garlic before it started getting too hot!
The weeds in my garden are looking about the same haha, so don't feel bad! But it seems like you got an effective way to keep them at bay! (You're rhyming was much better btw lol) Unfortunately I haven't found an effective way to combat them yet..these suckers grow back almost as big overnight it seems!
But as for the potatoes? When would you start mounding them up? My taties are growing at an exponential rate so far, and as I keep weeding, I keep losing more and more dirt around the plant, but I'm making sure to keep adding more good dirt around it! I'll have an update coming relatively soon, so you can see how much they grew this past week!
As of right now, I'm unsure when exactly I'll be able to make said update past, due to some family matters that just came about..which I'm also considering opening up about in a separate post, because for some weird reason, it's easier to talk about certain things in your life to people you don't know. Just me, maybe? Lol
Anyways, forgive me for ranting! But please keep the updates coming! I love to see how everything is progressing on your farm; and with your heat retaining greenhouse cloth, you have me wondering if I could keep planting a few quick growing cold weather crops once summer starts to pass, if they could possibly be ready before first frost!
Oh! Thank you so much for all the kind words!
And you weather sounds a lot like ours at times lol, except for the humidity, we don't get a lot of that here!
I don't know, that bay/way rhyme was pretty excellent, and yes, those darn weeds are relentless, without that huge chunk of barrier I think I would have to sleep out in the garden from May-July. Weed growth slows down a chunk once the heat of summer gets here, but that 60 day spring into summer period sucks lol!
And one of the best things about blogging is being able to throw yourself out there, so I totally get where you are coming from with the whole posting to people you don't know thing. I am sorry you are going through some family matter weeds too, dangit, I hope it all works out well for you all!
And no forgiveness needed! Rant away anytime, I love rambling comments, can't ya tell? lol!
Oh, and I have put in late crops lots of times, usually around late July, if I get worried about frost hurting stuff in the fall I just trot out some floating row cover or a low tunnel. Usually I just go for it when it comes to growing stuff, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but there's always something that works lol!
Thanks for stopping by, hope you are having a fantastic weekend!
!PIZZA