Growing season sucks, any help to get things going fast?

Temps here are supposed to reach 85 in the next 3 days, 5 days over 70 so we will see if it makes a difference.

Mart, will cucumbers, zucchini and beans take root from cuttings?

I will try some suckers and some starts and see if I can get them to take root. One good thing about a summer like this is it can go like this all the way into mid October sometimes giving me make up time from what was lost. My tomatoes and peppers are actually growing well just not getting big. Ones that are supposed to be 3 foot tall are 1 foot. Ones that are supposed to vine out like tom 100's are compact and bushy, things like that. Peppers have flowers on them but they are half the size or smaller that they are supposed to be.

Peat moss pH today is 5.2 from 3.2 last night, soaked in rain water 12 hours or so.

 

Not as far as I know but I haven`t tried them either. I think that they have to be grown from seed.
There is a good little tutorial on starting and growing tomato plants from suckers at backwoodshome.com/articles/trebor57 if you want to read it. Its about growing the eternal tomato plant. Pretty good little read. They start theirs in soil and I start mine in water only difference. Hope your temperature stays up there.

 

It HAS been a cool damp spring/summer. Hopefully this next week will give the tender vegies a boost since we are supposed to get into the 80s for a few days.

You are doing pretty good with some of your vegies :-D . You should be feeling pretty good about that. I have given up on gourds since they seem to need more heat than my yard ever gets. Zucchini and summer squash usually do OK, but they are too tender and slow growing this year to out grow the slugs.

My peas have been replanted three times. I had never had a problem with them not being able to out grow the slugs until this year. My yard has just been too cool (too many days/nights hoovering in the 50s. I went out to weed today and found half the beans were stems from slugs feasting. I've never had slugs this bad or this big in years. Glad they haven't bothered you.

It is just one of those years. I've been using the old Christmas lights for some of my cold frames to help nurse things along. Since it actually got up over 70F. today, I finally took the cover off the tomatoes. Only my pear tomatoes have bloosoms.

Isn't gardening fun in this maritime climate :-? It has been great blueberry growing. They are huge and plentiful. Win some and loose some I guess.

 

This is an interesting thread. I'm sorry it's been such a difficult year for you guys, Fish4 and Jewell.. I didn't realize you live in such a different microclimate. I admire your tenacity, Fish, and your glass-half-full (of blueberries!), Jewell!