How Was Your Garden This Summer

[Passport1]

Mine was a disappointment. Tomatoes were a fail. What I did get were not what the varieties were supposed to produce. No cucumbers, ditto for squash. Some peppers, good green bean production. Even the okra is struggling. I think the long string of extremely hot weather despite my frequently watering had an effect. The rain from this TS Debbie probably put the kibosh to anymore production. Looking forward to fall planting.

How did you do?

 

[Quattro Pete]

I've got a few cucumber plants (beit alpha) and hot pepper plants (super chili, cayenne) growing on the patio - they're doing pretty well this year. Lots of cukes right now. The peppers still need some more time to ripen. I wish my patio was south facing so they could get more sun.

 

[PWMDMD]

We are doing well. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been really good here. It's been hot with regular short bursts of thunderstorms. Not enough to soak/saturate everything to a problem but with the heat we have had to do no supplemental watering.

 

[fsdork]

Cucumbers and a few hot pepper varieties are doing very well in the south-facing planter boxes we built this year. Lettuce got nuked, and bolted almost immediately.

 

[cptbarkey]

No veggies, but front yard landscape re-do with local central texas wildflowers and various drought tolerant shrubs was extremely successful, however it was due to a mild summer and an abundance of rain. This has also caused a large overgrowth of red paper wasps that I am still battling at the family ranch.

 

[wavinwayne]

I didn't plant anything until June. I've got a few pepper plants in pots, that's it. They're doing OK but not great.

 

[Danno]

I had good success this year. The somewhat controlled environment helps.
Lettuce, kale, spinach, radishes, green onions, garlic, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, beans and tomatoes.
PS The carrots really had a good time....

 

[jetman]

We had a good garden again here at our S. Ctl. TX home.
Cantaloupe
Black berries
green beans
cucumbers
jalapenos
cherry tomatoes
habaneros
asparagus
onions

We've had a mild summer

 

[tnt_motorsports]

We’ve had 20+ summer squash, 80+ tomatoes and 10+ green peppers. Gone on vacation until next Sunday so hopefully our son remembers to harvest things while we are away. We have a grocery bag of tomatoes in the freezer for sauce this fall. I’ve picked the less desirable ones for sauce and kept the better ones to eat. I’ve been eating 1 or 2 per day for over a month.

Just my $0.02

 

[joekingcorvette]

We have one tomato plant that is producing very well and another tomato plant that produces the little tomato's that did not do very good at all.

 

[Bud]

I start real early in the season. Had a good crop of tomato's, peppers and cukes. By third week of June I was done except for peppers. They love the heat.

 

[Wylie6G72]

Huge tomato bushes, plenty of blooms, not one tomato.

 

[walterjay]

Raised garden has done very good. Abundant tomatoes, green and bell peppers and good lettuce until recently.
My garden soil is a mixture of topsoil, sand and mushroom soil that I get pre mixed locally.

 

[BrianF]

My carrots are so so. The seed visibility isn't great as they took weeks to sprout and a low percentage did. The peas are decent and are producing well. I replanted some new carrot seed along with some beans for fun in early July. Probably won't get anything, even though they are growing fine.nnits just too late in the season now.

My big beef tomatoes are slow, nothing ready yet and really not a lot. I did some pruning but I don't think it's helping. My cherry tomatoes are doing well and producing. They tasted awesome.

The celery has really grown and doing well. A little stalks but lots of flavor. It does well cooked in.

Now my potatoes...... they have grown big and grown fast. I was hilling them weekly. Most plants are starting to die out do mid-month I will start digging.

 

[tnt_motorsports]

I forgot to add a couple things.

We put all of our plants in potting soil in the ground. I dig a hole and the backfill is from a bag of potting soil.

We have 6 tomatoe plants, 3 pepper plants and 6 squash plants.

We have a rain barrel with an irrigation system that pipes water to the base of every plant. We haven’t used it much this year because until recently we’ve had an abundance of rain in eastern Iowa.

Just my $0.02

 

[Snagglefoot]

Here is the year two of my Sovereign Coronation purple grapes.You can see the dead stock of the year one growth and how year two produces a new stock sprouting from the base of the first stock, sometimes just above ground level and sometimes below ground level, popping up right next to the old stock or maybe 2-3 inches from it. It’s a long grind. My neighbor’s Concords are 20 years old each year the new branches emerge from the existing stock and grapes are quick to form.

 

[wlk]

Didly squat. The dry spell combined with the heat killed anything the deer didn't get. Even tried watering but not enough. Been at my place for 19yrs, this and last year were very disappointing. Deer found the garden last year and the wife and I agree we need a fence now. Next year plans I guess now.

 

[Pablo]

Garden doing well. Much garlic! Good onions. Broccoli tons. All kinds of potatoes. My corn is doing well, but some sudden violent wind blew over some stalks.

Blueberry crop was light but tons of gooseberries and honey berries and elderberries.

Tomatoes coming on.

 

[thastinger]

Eggplants and Cucumbers did really well, looks like the potatoes will be good too. Corn and tomatoes weren't worth a crap.

 

[Pablo]

The garlic harvest drying