Misconceptions

Been working through some misconceptions I've had from year to year. Biggest is that the garden was doing so much better last year at this time than it is this year. 

Part of that is misconception. Looked back at old blogs and found we had our first ripe tomato last year in mid-July. However, I looked at pictures from last year and saw that the tomato plants were considerably larger this time last year than they are right now. 

There are a couple of influences involved in that. One is that the weather has been considerably cooler this year. Spring came early last year. Another is that I had a lot more time to work on the garden last year. It was around this time last year that I got the job which took me out of town so much. The first job, that is. The effort is less important than the weather, though. Pics from last year this week show the sunflowers and Cosmos were also much taller than they currently are.

Any way, things are starting to catch up now. We had lots of rain this past weekend but the weather is warming up. Not too much, so cool weather crops look like they'll last for a while before bolting. 

So, I guess we should expect our first ripe tomatoes coming in somewhere around late July this year. Still hoping new seedlings will develop rapidly enough to get in the ground in the next 2-3 weeks, so they won't be too far behind.