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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    OK so it's finally nice now. Finishing up a little fence-thing for my raised beds tomorrow. Is it too late for bush beans, pole beans, sweet peas, potatoes, etc.? I'm assuming not as I plan to dump some of those babies in ASAP.
    Yard was a mess this year.
    It's getting a little late for peas, but you're good on everything else.

    I have everything in. 11 tomato plants, 14 pepper plants, snap peas, cucumbers, zucchini, bush beans, pole beans, eggplant, acorn, butter nut, spaghetti, sun burst squash, mini pumpkins, carrots, honey dew, cantaloupe, water melon, herbs, corn and okra. I also put in 3 blueberry bushes and have a bunch of strawberries that over-wintered.

    I started my tomatoes, peppers, squash and herbs inside from seed. With the lack of sun lately I have had a heck of a time getting them hardened off. They need to be introduced to the sun slowly so they don't get burned but that's been hard to do. My solution was to get the lite, white crop cover fabric to cover them with. It allows a lot of light in but should block enough of to keep them from getting burned. Once they're established a little better, I'll uncover them. The side bonus of this technique is that is protected everything from the pea sized hailstorm we got a couple weeks ago. Everything uncovered got beat to hell, everything covered is in great shape. I might cover them with row cover every year to protect against hail from here on out.

    The rain has been rough on the garden. The plants are so wet they just can't breathe. I'm afraid that if this keeps up I might get a problem with disease too. Hopefully the next few days will dry everything out.

    Picture of the covers and clips used to hold them down.



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