Mother Nature has not been kind to us this spring with all the rain we’ve received. As Panorama Gardens owner Dave Olson says this moisture is a blessing and a curse, but not to worry because there is plenty of time to recover from this.
Some advantages to all this rain are that the lettuce and rhubarb will taste a little sweeter and the radishes will become milder, but after too much moisture they will suffer.
Olson says that there is still plenty of time to plant, vine-producing plants like squash, zucchini and cucumbers, normally in the ground by the 10th of June.
Olson says the old times used to say when the dirt burned your feet it was time to place these vine-plants for harvest and he knows it will be challenging for some, but we can always preserver.
Olson says that if all else fails right now, fall is still a wonderful time of year for harvesting, but he hopes it doesn’t get to that point.