just gotta keep my fingers crossed

Some days I think that if I had a brain i'd be dangerous.......

Before I took up the spade and got a lottie I booked a long holiday overseas. Now that I have a lottie and have little green things coming up (okay, mostly weeds as we seem to be plauged with thistles and marestail) we have had zilch rain and I fear my little crops will be desicated by time I get back.

If I get back and it resembles the Sahara out there I suppose I'll have to re-sow (and weed into the next year probably), but what out of the following list will I have missed the boat on, so to speak?

brunswick onions, sweetcorn, squashes and pumpkins, runner peans, peas, carrots, parsnips, beetroot, spuds (maincrop) spinach beet

Am I doomed to another summer of Tesco's veggies or is there hope for me yet?

I booked a long holiday overseas ... and I fear my little crops will be desicated by time I get back.

When do you go & when do you come back?

Hi,

I go on friday for 3 weeks. I've mulched like mad and am doing rain dances of an evening.  I'll give them a big drink on thursday evening and keep my fingers crossed. I might be alright as they are forcasting rain on Monday here so providing we get a bit each week there might be something to come back to... if not, well, I can plant again and hopefully learn from my previous mistakes.

Cheers!

yes, i've told my husband that his asking me to go on holiday in the height of the growing season is a bit like me asking him to go on holiday during the World Cup!
Still, I'll have to cross my fingers when we go away a bit later in the summer.
best of luck, I'm sure you'll have something to come back to! I was pleasantly surprised when we went away last year and I came back to some really thriving plants. but i think we had a bit of rain while we were gone....

Well, I was right about the weeds..... thistles and marestail everywhere!

Most of the stuff has survived (I gather there was qyite a lot of wet weather while I was away) but the runner beans have gone yellow and the pumpkins look, well, ill.

I've got a busy weekend with a hand fork and hoe I think...