That's great, in general, but the late growth is presenting a few problems. Our early crops, like broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, are just starting to take off. They are cool weather plants, so not only do we wonder if they have time to mature properly before really hot temperatures arrive, we were counting on them nearing harvest by now so that we could sow other seeds in their place.
What to do? What to do?
As they are still rather small, we are considering transplanting them back into pots and trying to over-summer them and put them back in the ground as large bedding plants in late August for a fall harvest. I'm thinking this isn't the best idea.
We could just sacrifice them so we can use the real estate to plant our summer crops (i.e., zucchini, peppers, etc.) It would work, and monetarily we'd only be out a few seeds, but I just hate the idea.
Or, we could leave them be and add more beds (raised or in-ground) to plant our summer crops in. This is probably what we will do.
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We had thunderstorms with strong winds overnight. Here is a limb from a small maple that has broken and is draped over the power line running from the pole to our house. Our electric utility has been notified, but because we still have power, we are not on the priority list (apparently lots of folks lost power in the storm). We've been told a crew will come out soon, but probably not today.
Problem is, more storms are on the way. In the 15 minutes it's taken me to write this since taking the pic, the skies have grown dark again and the radar is turning red. If there's much wind with this next round, we could easily lose power.
Still, I'll take this weather any day over the snow we had three weeks ago.
