Peas ...... and other stuff

[ReptileAddiction]

I agree you have awesome pics. I want pics of your fruit trees please? That would be awesome. Now that I have in ground fruit it is by far my favorite thing to grow. Currently I only have a dwarf peach. A blueberry and a grape. The grape was just planted in the ground and I will hopefully get grapes for the first time next year. This year I harvested about 5 medium peaches and about 10 small ones. Plus about a cup or 2 of blueberries. My peach tree should have another 10 inches of fruiting wood on each branch so next year my peach harvest could easily double. Plus all the lemons and stuff that will be going in mid winter.

[DoubleDogFarm]

Reptile, Go over to the Fruit Forum.

Eric

[jal_ut]

wow they do look super healthy where about's do you live in Utah

Northern Utah, Cache Valley, a little town called Paradise.

I always love looking at your photographs. And here I thought Utah was just desert!

Utah is a high mountain desert for the most part. A little corner of Southern Utah is a much lower desert.

I have mentioned before that those who settled much of Utah diverted the streams and built reservoirs and canals for irrigation. Without that we would not be raising much of anything, except dust.

[GardenRN]

Peaches......you must not have squirrels in UT.

[ReptileAddiction]

We have tons of squirrels but instead of tree ones they live in the ground

[DoubleDogFarm]

Peaches......you must not have squirrels in UT.

or San Juan Island

Eric

[dustyrivergardens]

Well you have a beautiful spot on this here earth enjoy it...

[digitS']

Looking great James!

Sun, eh? Something to think about.
So the shorter number of growing days are compensated by number of high quality sunshine hours? (kind of similar to Alaska where they practically have no nights during the available growing days. ... And Steve gets an hour more sun each day.... I guess Eric should get more daylight too, except he gets more cloudy days..... Interesting....

Warmth:

Most warm-season plants make minimal growth unless the average daily temperature is above 50°F. Cool-season veggies may get by with 40°. These are averages between highs and lows and those can't be too extreme since plants will shut down at say 90° and if the overnight temperature is approaching freezing, not even peas will make any real growth during that day.

Low Utah humidity will mean that James has extremes to interfere with his gardens. There will be what seems to people elsewhere, enormous swings between the cool at sunrise and the warmth at mid afternoon. Plants don't necessarily like that - James has convinced them to thrive, in spite of it.

Pointing out that there's so much more daylight time for someone who lives where it is always cool, like on the northern Pacific coast, is just a way of say - we are all in this together.

Steve

[jal_ut]

Low Utah humidity will mean that James has extremes to interfere with his gardens. There will be what seems to people elsewhere, enormous swings between the cool at sunrise and the warmth at mid afternoon.

Sure the truth. This morning just before sunrise it was 62° here and now at 10:45 AM its already up to 94°. Yesterday it got up to 98°. Its predicted to hit 102° today. Well........ I watered the garden last night, so maybe the corn and squash will like it. Have a great day!