A Little Rant About Weather

I have a dead computer =(

It's kept me from blogging because honestly, I find it uncomfortable to blog from a public computer in my apartment building. Mostly because I don't want my neighbors creeping up behind me reading as I type. Is that weird? I am sorry for the lack of posts this past month, hopefully I can get on top of things quickly!

But with that straightened out, let me just throw this out there...

This summer's weather sucked. It sucked so much that I don't feel the same level of gratification over my garden as I did last season. Even though I took much better care of it this season, even beating out an aphid infestation and disease, this weather just sucked. And it still sucks.

What's the deal with that!?

Some people think I am crazy and that this summer has been similar to recent summers, but i'm telling you, it's not. And as my boyfriend says, "you're always right", I know i'm right when I say this..

It sucked and still sucks.

Look, I have some evidence to back this up. And I blame the weather for my somewhat lackluster gardening season. For example, by this time last year I was enjoying numerous banana peppers, bell peppers and jalapenos. This season all I've enjoyed is a frankenpepper from hell. The only thing that has done well so far is the patio tomato. Even the mint isn't as robust as last year, the oregano went meh, the lemon tree is still just chillin with some green lemons and the blackberry is just off on its own doing its thing and growing like a giant bean stalk to nowhere.

Frankenpepper

In fact, the humidity has been so bad in the area, that I have had mushrooms growing in my containers. I've never had shrooms, and I keep the containers well drained. But it has been impossible to keep the shrooms from growing all over and as harmless as some people say they are, every time I saw shrooms in the container, the plants did not do well. I've been spraying my plants once a week with the anti-fungal spray because the disease, although it is under control, it is still around. And so, I blame this lame summer weather of high humidity, little sun, and moderate temperatures for a very slow and somewhat crappy growing season.

I'm not a gardening expert by any means, but my garden certainly did better in the record triple digit heat of last season than it has done in the mild temps and ridiculous humidity of this season. Freakin' mid-atlantic weather.

I don't know if it is global warming, aliens, the apocalypse or my imagination, but whatever it is, it is ruining my yield for this season and i'm not happy about it.

Ok, rant over. Anyone else ranting about the weather this year?

PS. While my garden has struggled, the local orchards seem to be doing just fine. Just look at all these peaches and blackberries I picked up a couple of weeks ago! I am officially annoyed and jealous.

I froze most of these so I could enjoy them in smoothies and what not throughout the coming months. I have been contemplating buying a chest freezer so I can freeze all sorts of veggies and fruits for this upcoming winter. Anyone have one of those? does it really hike up your energy bill? 

I think I need to remind myself that I live in an apartment in DC and not on a farm... a chest freezer might not be the right investment at this point in time.