I got out for a few hours this morning to check on a couple of my planting areas. It's the first time I've had a chance to look at them for a while. I was concerned after that big storm went through a week ago, but there was not a lot of damage in my planting areas. There were a lot of tree tops blown out throughout the woods, but luckily nothing close to my planting sites.
It's a pretty good walk through the woods to the second area I checked on. Along the way there is an area with a good deal of wild plants growing. In that area there were a couple of huge beach trees that went down landing on some of the ginseng and opening up the canopy way too much. If the plants are still standing in September I'll probably move some of the ones that are getting too much sun to my seed producing area.
My plantings were holding up better than I thought they might be with all of this heat that we've had. I've lost a few along the way since they sprouted this spring, but am pretty pleased with the amount that have survived to this point especially considering how hot and dry it has been. The first area that I checked on this morning had some problems with slugs early this spring, but the ones that are still there look very healthy. I planted this area using a homemade single seed planter. I had a very good emergence this spring, but the slugs got probably 30-40 % of them. I'll be planting more seed in that area this fall, and I'll be prepared to deal with the slugs next spring.
I'd love to hear how any else's plantings are doing.
