Come along and garden with me with my monthly gardening feature where I take you into my garden and show you everything I'm doing month-by-month! Here's everything I'm doing in the month of July.
Even though it's mid-July, for this time of year my garden seems a bit pitiful. I shared in my previous gardening by month posts that this has been a record-breaking cold and damp season for the Pacific Northwest, and most of my warm-weather-loving crops are struggling.
Read my gardening tasks in March, gardening tasks in April, gardening tasks in May and gardening tasks in June blog posts here.
Just for reference, I'm in gardening zone 7B, and my last average frost date is April 30th. This year (2022) in the Pacific Northwest we've seen some of the coldest temperatures and wettest spring in nearly 50 years.
We can't control the weather, and sometimes you just need to go with what the weather is handing you.
I've actually tried direct sowing squash plants three different times and each time those seeds just rotted in the ground.
However, many of my cool-weather-loving crops are doing great.
One of the things about homesteading and gardening is that you have to hold a lot of your plans loosely. And to be ready to pivot or make changes because there are always outside circumstances that are out of our control.
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