Ah, yes, planning one’s garden. ‘Tis fun, challenging, and sometimes downright complicated: where to plant stuff, when to plant it and, of course, how to protect one’s wee plants. We honestly thought we’d covered that in our plans…but clearly we’d forgotten one of the menaces of living very close to the world’s highest tides.
Now, I’m not blaming the ocean (this time) but seriously sometimes when the tide changes we can get these absolutely abrupt and fierce wind squalls . And while it may seem that I’m digressing here: I’m simply trying to explain that it was silly of us to plant as though we’re unused to sudden blasts of strong wind. However, this past weekend was nothing like that. That would have been fine. A short squall we could handle. Instead, for some reason, we had gale force (I think: clearly it’s becoming obvious that I’m no meteorologist) winds that just kept on blasting at our garden (and us, too, but we’re not prone to snapping when the wind blows).
We have frost domes, but let’s face it: PVC piping and flimsy plastic are no match for hurricanes (and yes, I’ve now lapsed into hyperbole). Perhaps if we’d kept our wee darlings inside a bit longer, or maybe if we’d planted them outside sooner to give them a chance to harden themselves out in the REAL world. Alas, we did not.
Thankfully, most of our plants emerged unscathed, but not all. As you can see this poor dear was snapped off in the prime of his young life. So terribly sad.
Wind 1, Plant 0
On the other hand, we noticed some wee beans sprouting on the bean plant that we thought were done!
New Bean!
And hopefully the wind toll will not cut into our “production” too much. Thankfully, not all of our plants were destroyed. This square is looking wonderful.
Growing goodies: this is our happiest square.
I’m particularly excited about these adorable zucchini plants. I can’t wait to eat tender young zucchinis (unlike the monster zucchinis of my youth)!
Lovely and robust Zucchini plants
Haha! Monster Zucchini…. you could use them as baseball bats…. hollow them out and they make a fine boat…. endless possibilities with those big old things.
So, my cukes completely died… but I have blossoms on my peas. And, I accidentally hoed a potato out of the ground when I was frantically de-weeding last night…. and the potato was the size of a large marble… mmm good eating will be happening soon. We planted half an acre of pumpkins last night too… and now it is raining today. Yippy!
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