On monday evening a big storm went through that spawned funnel clouds to the northwest of town in Wabamun, complete with hail and rain. The camrose plot got 2.5 inches of rain and some hail that wasn’t large enough to damage anything. We’re going down there tonight to check the progress of everything. We went to the Millwoods plot last night and the peppers and radishes had weathered the storm pretty well. A few peppers were lying flat but no stems were broken so I propped them up on their trellis again. I’m not sure how much actual rain fell on the millwoods plot since it seemed fairly dry when I got there last night to water.
I had to move things around in the garden in that the trellis for the pumpkins was too high and apparently going to block the next plot over later in the season. So, the pumpkins and winter squash have been moved to the north 4x8ft bed in the garden and will be caged in place rather than trellised, and the zucchini and watermelon in the southwest 4×8 bed will be left there and caged to grow lower to the ground instead. I’ll let the leaves and vines lie on the ground and train them around the edges of cage as they grow and hang the growing fruit from the cage itself to keep it off the ground to help prevent premature rotting before harvest.
I expect in the next 3-4 days that the zucchini and the rest of the cucumbers and peas should be pushing up shoots as the white cucumber plant on the north side of the plot has 2 nice little seedlings just sprouted. I planted a bunch of different bush type tomatoes that I got on sale at Canadian Tire, and will be planting a reduced selection of indeterminates because of that.
New pictures to come later tonight!
