Problems
The past two years of creating a vegetable garden have been a total learning experience. I think I'm finally getting the hang of it, but I still run into some problems.
This year I build a raised garden of about 3 inches which took care of the excessive water problem I had last year. However, this year the extreme dry and hot weather pretty much destroyed my cucumbers, watermelons, cantelope, honey dew and peppers. They were getting a good ground level soaking every other day, but the heat from the sun baked and cracked them. Is there an appropriate product to use to shade them?
Also, no matter what I do I can't seem to get snap peas to grow. In the past, it was not enough water, this year again the sun. I'm open to any reasonable suggestions.
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Permalink Reply by Shelly Marsh on -
Hi Susan,
Congrats on continuing your efforts to grow vegetables. It's not easy is it? This summer's weather, the heat in particular was brutal. We had temps in the high 90's low 100's for 4 weeks. I know several other gardeners who strived to just keep things alive. I have heard of some people who live in extremely hot places (Phoenix comes to mind) use shade cloths to cover gardens. What is great about shade cloth is that it is fairly inexpensive and you can purchase it in different percentages of shade. Example, most of them start offering 30% up to 80% shade. If it were me and I was looking for something to prevent scalding I would probably give the 30% a try. I have included a link to a website where you can learn more about shade cloth. http://growerssupply.com/farm/supplies/cat1a;gs1_shade_houses_shade...
Snap peas are suppose to be easy to grow. Ha, I'm a lot of help aren't I? I have never grown snap peas so I can't tell you what I might have done that might be of some assistance. I have included a link of steps to growing snap peas that might help you.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2100173_grow-snap-peas.html
Hope all this helps!
Shelly
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Permalink Reply by Susan Sarna on -
Shelly, thanks for the information. I thought there should be somehting for shade, but didn't know where to look. As far as the peas, I'll keep trying.
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