Hows Everyones Garden Doing

[fly2fish]

Anyone having much success with their gardens this year? With no new post I would say most are like mine, last year I was picking 50-75 tomatoes a day from 18 plants, this year I might not even get 50 all year. I planted 24, 9 died and 2 or 3 more are still questionable if they are going to make it or not much less have tomatoes. Squash and cucumbers only thing doing any good. Watermelon and cantalope plants doing well but just now starting to bear little ones. Haven't planted okra yet waiting for the beans to get done.

F2F

[Dutch]

Mine is really poor this year. Most of the things I have planted are slow and many have died including squash, tomatoes, egg plant, peppers, and watermelons. The corn is getting going but so are the Japanese beetles.

[smallmouthjoe]

The only thing that's doing well in my garden are my herbs. My tomatoes where a bust this year. Two of them died and all the ones that I have left still haven't fruited. I don't know what the deal is.

[jjtroutbum]

Only thing I did this year has been five tomato plants in some large planters they are growing well and the single cherry type is about to be ripe. I am hoping for the end of the week. Better boys are large spot free and still green but hoping for the best. Might fry up a few soon though. If I think there getting to heavy.

[patfish]

Yeah, I pretty much agree with y'all on the maters. I have a couple of dozen plants, two died. Few flowers and very little fruit thus far. My cukes and cantaloupe have tons of flowers but have shown not fruit. Even my tabasco and chili pepper plants are stinking it up. They have a few peppers on them, but the plants themselves seem to be dwarfs. They are only about 8" tall. What is up? Herbs and bell peppers seem to be doing the best. What a weird year....

[ness]

Mine has been a mixed bag. The tomatoes are doing fine. None harvested yet, but it won't be to long. Peppers look a little stunted, but healthy. Snow peas were a total bust. Lettuce went to seed real suddenly and the crop was small. Radishes have been very small. Didn't get the netting on soon enough and the birds are most of the blueberries. Bumper crop of weeds though.

[catman]

All I did was squash this year (and it's been great), all my friends that did tomatoes & green peppers are saying the same things that's been said above. I think it was just to wet early on. Maybe next year for me.

Squash mix, equal parts of sugar & white flower in a baggie then (fried in veg oil) perfect to the grave..

[Thom]

Anyone having much success with their gardens this year? With no new post I would say most are like mine, last year I was picking 50-75 tomatoes a day ......"

F2F

I have had the same results with my garden. Too much rain early to get them in and going. The ones on my deck have been doing great though. I am picking 3 or 4 a day. I planted them in pots and staked them .... one pot with earlygirl and Roma's and another with Better boys. I usually put time release fertilizer and water crystals to keep the going all season.

below is the results of two of my deck tomatoes. I also have a picture of a thief that was raiding them earlier in the year. MMMM .... MMMMM good baked for 4 hours in the convection oven .... not the tomatoes either.

[Quillback]

I did the container thing for tomatoes this year myself, they are really starting to come in now, picked a dozen this morning. I did have a problem with blossom end rot, but they seem to be over that now. Next year I will mix in some lime into the containers before I plant the plants. I'm sold on containers now for tomatoes.

Squash and peppers were bad this year. Green beans are doing fine.

[Thom]

qulllback

I put water crysatals mixed in the potting soil and slow release fertilizer. It has really made them grow. I talke a water soluable tomato fertilizer and add about a gallon mixed every t\wo weeks. it is basically a low nigrogen high potash and phosporus llike 6-12-12 or 6-24-24. I am picking 6-8 tomatoes every couple of days. Keeps me with plenty of fresh fruit all summeer and just out on the deck. When i started them early in the spring I planted abut 10 bub lettuce plants around the outside edge and had lettuce until it bolted in early june.

loads of fun watching them grow. The deer here have made it almost impossible to raise much gardern in the yard without a 8 foiot fence. They jump anything shorter and it is gone overnight.

Thom

excuse all the tpos. my main computer craashed and i am working on my laptop.... what a drag.... small pring and different keyboard.