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I never plant until late june/early july.

For the last 8 years, I have lived, and gardened, in north central Idaho.

Yes there is still time to replant. But, I was getting ready to have fun, not do more chores

I am more concerned about losing so many good healthy fruit trees. And all of my blueberry plants, but one. At least the strawberry patch survived.
 
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Not exactly vegetable garden, but a fruit tree update, I thought they are kind of in the same "category".

I built a big concrete planter last week (well, I built a mold and cast a planter in it) - it was an experimental one (trying different materials for the mold building) - but it came out ok (learned a lot from it, both good and bad), and once I managed to flip it over and clear it from all the sand I used for the cavity, I moved that 360 lbs monster to the deck and we went to look for a dwarf fruit tree we could put in it.

Given that it is San Diego county, it is warm and there is lots of sun, decided we wanted a dwarf fig tree (good with sun, do not need tons of water once established). Apparently, there is a type called "Little Miss Figgy", unfortunately, the nursery did not have one so we had to settle for a different kind of fig tree, but that's the new addition to our fruit trees - surprisingly, already starting to show figs. All our other trees (apples, lemons, avocados) are not grown in a container, so it will be interesting to see how this works.

FWIW, this tree stands next to our little herb container we have on the deck which currently has mint, basil, cilantro and parsley in it.
 
For the last 8 years, I have lived, and gardened, in north central Idaho.

Yes there is still time to replant. But, I was getting ready to have fun, not do more chores

I am more concerned about losing so many good healthy fruit trees. And all of my blueberry plants, but one. At least the strawberry patch survived.

Strawberrys are like weeds. Sorry to hear about your blues. They're the best.

Weather patterns have been strange. Just snowed 8 inches on Hood. Forcecast for Portland tomorrow is 89.
 
The weird weather will continue and almost certainly only get worse.

I would have thought with all the extra CO2 in the air all plants would be doing incredible...
 
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You wouldn't think Syria would have been plunged into a civil war due to the inability to grow crops driving thousands of farmers off their baren land with all this extra CO2 we've got. It should be getting easier every year, right? It's just crazy...

Funny you bring up Syria. Weather warfare is crazy indeed..
 
My wife went out to our garden the other day and something had helped itself to all of her lettuce. She was not happy. It was eaten down to the ground.
 
I live in an apartment so no room for a garden but my friends have a big backyard garden and tons of tall trees lining their property. Looking forward to tasting what they’re growing!
 
Tomatoes, several varieties, and green beans.IMG_20240812_113136~3.jpg
 

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Just harvested more tomatoes. Going to have to start giving them away soon.
 
Harvest this season is way down from normal. Nothing to give away. Everything bad that could happen, did.

One bright happy report. Every year, I plant something new. This year it was 2 varieties of Japanese melons. Both are doing great. Hope they taste as good as they look.
 
One of the many garden battles I am fighting this season is a heavy invasion of codling moths. They can wipe out an entire fruit orchard. I am using 4 different methods trying to save what remains of the orchard that didn't die off from the -39 winter freeze. One of the methods has caused a new problem.

Using 1/2 gallon jugs with a recipe of molassas, apple cider vineger, and water, attracks the moths, and they drown. This morning, all of the moth traps were empty and out of place.

Security cameras caught the guilty rascal. Now I have a bear problem.
 
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One of the many garden battles I am fighting this season is a heavy invasion of codling moths. They can wipe out an entire fruit orchard. I am using 4 different methods trying to save what remains of the orchard that didn't die off from the -39 winter freeze. One of the methods has caused a new problem.

Using 1/2 gallon jugs with a recipe of molassas, apple cider vineger, and water, attracks the moths, and they drown. This morning, all of the moth traps were empty and out of place.

Security cameras caught the guilty rascal. Now I have a bear problem.
That sucks!

Have you considered a more permaculture type setup that encourages predator species to live in your garden?
 
One of the many garden battles I am fighting this season is a heavy invasion of codling moths. They can wipe out an entire fruit orchard. I am using 4 different methods trying to save what remains of the orchard that didn't die off from the -39 winter freeze. One of the methods has caused a new problem.

Using 1/2 gallon jugs with a recipe of molassas, apple cider vineger, and water, attracks the moths, and they drown. This morning, all of the moth traps were empty and out of place.

Security cameras caught the guilty rascal. Now I have a bear problem.
Bears can be a nuisance, but they are pretty nomadic and don’t usually stick around an area causing mischief for long. We get the occasional bear through, tipping trash cans and whatnot but it’s usually a different one each time and they dont hang out. Hit him once with a sligshot or bb gun he will be gone. Even a loud yell will do it alot of the time.
 
That sucks!

Have you considered a more permaculture type setup that encourages predator species to live in your garden?

Birds and bats are the predators of the codling moth. I have several bird feeding stations, that get hammered, so plenty of birds around. Just way to many moths. Also have 3 electric bug zappers. Each one kills hundreds to thousands of moths, every night.

On a side note. Yesterday, I had a heart warming encounter with a hummingbird. While watering the garden by hose. The hummingbird landed on a plant cage about a foot from me. Watched for a while, then few around close by, as if it was pointing out areas that needed water. Than it landed near me again, and supervised my work.
 
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