West MI here, half way between the Zoo and the lake, and let me tell you it's been miserable this May. Below normal temps all month, only 21% of available sun light, last ten days straight with measurable rain, 20 days of rain for the month, 2" above normal rain for the month and 4" for the year. Raining right now, more rain forecasted for tomorrow night into Saturday. Some thing has got to give! Alright already UNCLE! I said UNCLE! It has to stop now I SAID uncle!!!
I started six flats of tomatoes, peppers, and Zinnias, timed them so they'd be ready to transplant in mid May. There they sit on the porch yet. Well most of them, I started giving some away so they all don't go to waste. One guy plans to go with container gardening, I might put a few in containers myself at this point. My buddy up the road two miles is on higher sandy ground he has his garden in no problems. Must be nice to have soil with drainage, mines heavy clay and it's saturated, spade a hole and it fills with water. Guy up the road bought a new orchard sprayer and we're going to spray trees. Was looking at the apples and it looks like we'll be having a good year, lots of little apples already forming, except they're getting chewed up pretty good by pests. It looks like Sunday will be our best bet.
So anyway, that's the farm/gardening report for the end of May. On positive note, I think all this cold and rain has diminished the tick harvest this year, only found three on me so far.
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