It hasn’t been the best summer – garden’s puttering along
Well, so far this year I can’t say it’s been a great summer or great gardening season … Some of my plants are behind while others are not liking this weather at all!
We’re finally having some warm humid weather here in Toronto (still not as hot and humid as it usually is!) and that’s helping the plants make up for what’s been a cold summer! We haven’t had tons of rain, but when it does rain it rains a lot!
My roses don’t seem to like this weather. They’ve been hit fairly hard with powdery mildew and several have just about completely lost their blooms! I’ve treated the roses with my organic mix and I think they’ll begin to recover soon … but they’re going to look straggly for a while!
Actually … it’s just the roses in the backyard that are depleted of leaves. The ones in the front look great! Especially The Fairy rose and Bonica! Oh and they’re blooming like crazy too! Take a peak:
Lovely aren’t they? These are The Fairy Roses.
Oh well … at least most of the plants are growing and or producing veggies! My Tomatoes (cherry, tiny tom, early girl and Glam) are all full of green tomatoes. Hopefully the heat starts to help them ripen! Likewise my cucumber plants have tiny (smaller than Gherkins) cucumbers on them that I hope begin to grow soon. I can’t wait to have fresh tomatoes and cucumbers around!
At least I can eat some fresh fruit from my garden – even it’s only a handful! We finally picked our first raspberries off the bushes yesterday. Yummy!
If you’re weather is similar to mine you might have noticed that some of your plants are behind, smaller than normal or even taller than normal! For example, my Hydrangea is blooming, but the flowers are a little smaller than they normally are … yet my Phlox (Phlox David) and Balloon Flowers are blooming like crazy and they’re also much taller than normal … my Balloon flowers are over 4 feet tall! Biggest they’ve ever been!
Here’s my Hydrangea:
The sunflowers that I always grow in our planted boulevard were only two or so feet tall up until a week ago … then we got all that rain last weekend and they grew another two feet or more just like that. Their flowers are finally blooming, but again, they are smaller than normal. Geez … I’m used to having 8 foot tall sunflowers that the city tells me I have to cut down! LOL
At least my plants are blooming and growing. It could be worse!
I’ll leave you with this lovely picture of my Graham Thomas English rose … aren’t they gorgeous?
How’s your garden doing this week?
August 11th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
The weather is really hurting so much, especially its unpredictability. Just a couple of days ago, the sun was brightly shining then the next day, downpour was so heavy that it flooded and drowned the lawn with all my anthuriums. Really devastating.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am
This has been a hard summer in Georgia. A late freeze took out the figs and a wet spring followed by an extremely dry summer hasn’t done wonders for the veggies. But this week were have tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and lots of fresh herbs!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I like all types o roses. it will be very nice to have such beautiful yellow rose in my garden.It is very nice post.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Nice roses,I would love to have them on my garden