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Gardening

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IDemo

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Thu Jul 4, 2013, 09:22 PM Jul 2013

After 20+ years, I guess we're done with vegetable gardening [View all]

I built four 4' x 8' raised beds over twenty years ago and added a fifth two years ago. The garden has never been the bushel basket of produce that some seem to be able to grow, but this year has been a complete wipeout. The record heat (110 a couple of days ago and more to come) along with the almost total absence of bees has made it a fools game here. I haven't seen more than 2 bees simultaneously in the backyard this year, even though we have an abundance of flowers that are normally covered in them (see the pic below from a few years ago).

Tomatoes, cantaloupe, squash, all with blooms but not a single fruit to be seen. I guess we'll plant annuals in the beds next year.


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