Just finished selling last of hay crop, 112 bales...

[triguy46]

Summer is still on but not much more growing around here. How has your crop/garden year been?

[RandomThoughts]

1. I post on the interenet.

I don't have crops or a garden.

[knowbody0]

2. only thing left to harvest is my tomatoes

but my crop is way wee.

goodonya for the hay

[handmade34]

3. I miss haying

used to love the thrill of getting the crop in under cover just before the storm came... those were good days!

[triguy46]

5. I about killed myself this spring trying to get hay in barn before rain...

not as young as I once was. Got lucky and made a phone call to a customer who came and loaded 35 out of the field, then put 12 that were on my wagon in the barn for me. Scary hot and dehydrated.

[handmade34]

10. it is very hard work!

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I haven't made hay in years.

What kind of bales do you do? Round, big squares, little squares...?

Our garden is doing fairly decent, a bit late because we planted a little late, but we're getting it in. I imagine my wife & daughter-in-(common)-law will be into the wild elderberries this week. They make jelly & medicinal syrup & all that from them.

[handmade34]

9. my farming days are sadly in the past

I would (almost) sell my soul to get back to it... started with small round bales (Allis-Chalmers)...that didn't make it big with most people

Other than that, always put up small square and had lots of hands out in the field picking up

I planted a number of elderberry bushes back when I was still in my house (and teaching) and I would take 5 gallon buckets of berries into school and we all cleaned them and made jelly and pie and frozen berries and jusice and what have you... My bushes were so heavy with berries that if I didn't get out to pick them in time the branches broke from the weight of the berries. I miss them too :(

[triguy46]

15. Little squares, I can sell all I bale to hobby farmers in the area.

[uppityperson]

4. up here in the Pacific NorthWet, spring went on and on and on and on

It finally got decent warmth and not drizzling so things started to grow finally. Took 3 times to get my beans up, between cool weather and slugs. Got a great crop of spuds from the garden, am liking the Austrian fingerlings and Chieftan reds, got 50# of each from under 3# each starting. Next yr want to expand the garden further as am finally getting the existing part up to speed, difficult here where was glaciated not that long ago. 6 inches soil (at best) then down to hard clay.

Summer has been good.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. What does a bale of hay go for these days?

[triguy46]

16. Small square bales of clean blue stem/bermuda native hay $3/bale in the field, $3.50 in barn.

I'm cheap, but its a good hay year in OK so a lot of hay around.

[tularetom]

8. We had a nice cool rainy spring so

Looks like I won't have to buy any hay this summer.

On the other hand, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, etc, not so hot.

We have a small citrus orchard (100 trees) and the rainy weather has left us with a lot of scale and other bugs. I've been doing a lot of spraying.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

11. not the best gardening year for me, but pretty good all in all

My potatoes are doing terrific, so great I put a late crop in just to see some ground covered. Tomatoes are getting pretty nice crop but green peppers, all four kinds, are mostly plant and few peppers. My butternut squash is pretty productive as is the zucchini (big surprise, right?). Cucumbers and cantaloupe died out. Have two kinds of decorative gourds taking over too much space. Cabbage heads seem small, and six plants I got from my husband's cousin are unidentified plants, suppose to be flat dutch cabbage, but definitely not. Where I planted pumpkin is all vine, no fruit, but we have a volunteer in the upper garden that has the biggest pumpkins that I have ever grown. Onions seem to look healthy. We have had a banner year of blueberries, yellow plums, and red and yellow raspberries. Small crop of black raspberries, but the vines are fairly new. Also had four prune plums on new tree! Peaches are not going to make it, brown rot is winning. They get almost ripe and then start to rot and fall off the tree. nectarines are all brown rot, guess we are cutting those two trees out this fall. Oh, concord grapes are amazing, I have been making juice the last couple of weeks. Green grapes just coming in now, pretty small crop of them. I never even got my corn in this summer as the lower garden was a marsh, I think I could have grown rice there. Guess overall we are getting pretty much out of the garden, even though I didn't get it all planted due to the wet spring here.

[blue sky at night]

12. my main garden was a bust..

it was just too hot and dry for anything to do well. I am going to build the soil this fall with compost and other goodies and hope for more rain next year. We are really dry now here in N.E. Ohio.

[murielm99]

13. Apples did well here.

I only have a couple of trees, but there are more apples than I know what to do with. I sent my daughter home with two full bags.

We will have pie, applesauce and cider.

I don't have a garden here any more. I have two neighbors who garden cooperatively. They give me produce every time I visit. If I want anything else, I go to the farmer's market. It is very inexpensive, too.

The beans here do not look far enough along for late August. Much of the corn has finished, though. I don't know how things look on our farm property. Someone farms it for us. We did go to visit with the guy last week. But he was already gone to the state fair and only his son was home. My husband will go see him in another week or so.

[lizziegrace]

14. Tomatoes did great

as did the squash. Peppers were pathetic and the beans were eaten over and over. Half the corn went down in a storm and the remainder followed in a storm later that week. I feel like Pa on Little House.

;-)

I'll be canning tomatoes and freezing squash but had hoped for so much more this year.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

17. We haven't even cut third crop yet

We have it all in alfalfa. I dread the last cutting because there's a good chance it gets rained on. First cutting was stalky. The second cutting was very nice.

[newfie11]

18. Grasshoppers, grasshoppers and MORE grasshoppers

they even ate the bark off of bushes and new tree growth,