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Curious as to who had a great outcome for the veggies/flowers this year?  
I didn't plant much, tomatoes and carrots, haven't dug the carrots yet, waiting for a frost, the tomatoes were okay but not great.  
I had used a powder for BRE called 'talk of tomatoes' if I remember correctly and it didn't totally but did help somewhat.  
I was disappointed with the hanging basket I had this year, despite proper watering/fertilizing. But more disappointed that one hanging basket was stolen from right at my back door that a friend had left out for s surprise! damn thieves!

Carrots, beets, beans, potatoes, squash, zucchini, lettuce and celery did well this year.  
 
Corn was slow and barely any, tomatoes wouldn’t ripen on vine and nowhere near what we usually get. Onions seem small and pumpkins did not produce much either.  
 
Raspberry bush was good this year but strawberries were poor. Apple trees are pretty young yet but did very poor.  
 
Sunflowers were small and spindly. My one flower bed was dead half way through summer, my pots were good but have had better.  
 
Funny year that’s for sure

Well, I have to say I didn't have any stolen stuff, except what was pilfered by the squirrels.  
 
My tomatoes were ho-hum this year too. The plants themselves grew really well, but the fruit is just okay. So slow to ripen!! But I'm finding they don't even taste as good as they usually do, despite it being the same varieties I usually grow. I did try a black krim this year, it was probably the tastiest of the bunch.  
 
I didn't get a single pepper. Boo. Peppers and I don't get along, I have yet to have a successful year with those.  
 
My greens did great, I tried some new things and it worked really well. My swiss chard is still going strong (and delicious).  
 
Beets and carrots we've been grazing on, lots are still in the ground but they've been very tasty. I got enough beets to do pickles, so my husband is happy.  
 
My squashes etc didn't do very well, even the zucchini, surprisingly enough. But the spaghetti squash did great at least!  
 
Beans, peas, etc are all average yield. Very tasty though. I stagger planted them this year, jury is still out on that as the latest plantings didn't produce enough to be worth my while.  
 
Potatoes didn't yield as much as I had hoped (or as YouTube promised), but it was our first year. I can think of a few things we'll do different next year.  
 
Perennial fruits all did well in the end despite the slow start. Our apples trees produced tons of apples, but they were really wormy this year and actually they got really bruised on the tree as we had a few days of high wind right before picking (which was later than usual this year). So while I did pick and process some, I didn't do as many as usual as it was a lot of work and they weren't very nice anyway.

Beans, potatoes, squash have done well, tomatoes slowly ripening, Beet, collards, kale, parsnips useless, Melons grown well but not ripening. Sweetcorn good, strawberries so so. Cabbages bought as plants did well , heads 4lb and up. Caulis, broccoli as plants lousy. Chard, a 50 foot row gave us only about 8 plants but producing well, Swedes swelling but leaves stripped by beetles (Canola field 60 feet away). Carrots slow to get going but now good.  
 
Flower beds have needed constant watering and eventually good cover. Sunflowers to 7 feet and flowering well.  
 
Edited by vegimite, 2019-09-19 12:47:58

I did not plant much but what I did plant all did well.  
Tomatoes-best tomato crop I have had in years. All were in tubs and I fertilized with some water soluble tomato fertilizer I bought and never used however many years ago-found it in a drawer by accident. Lots of tomatoes, good size and good taste-no blight-and they are ripening too fast now!  
 
Cucumbers (slicers) were plentiful-they are still producing but have slowed down now. Potatoes did well though I did not plant many hills.  
 
Flowers did well-trailing petunias, regular petunias, marigolds, violas and more violas.

Corn didn't come up at all. Lettuce was bitter, but could have been the new type I planted.  
The apple trees took the year off. Raspberries were okay. Strawberries were poor.  
Tomato plants were bushy and lots of fruit, but very slow to ripen. I went basic and only planted Romas and Bushsteaks. I feed them Tums to prevent Blossom End Rot.  
Peppers (jalapeno and sweet) were good.  
Cucumbers were good but late. Both slicing and pickling.  
Peas and beans were good. Beets are okay, haven't eaten that many yet.  
Carrots are fabulous. All 40 hills of potatoes came up, we have eaten a few and they are good. Onions are as good as we can grow.  
Zucchini never fails in my garden, LOL.  
Squash and Cantaloupe are so slow that there won't be any ready.  
We don't plant things like cabbage, broccoli, radishes, turnips - the flea beetles just eat them all.  
 
Edited by curlysister, 2019-09-19 20:19:28

Green beans, squash, beets, and carrots good. While on subject, to wash or not to wash carrots for storage in fridge?

I scrub my carrots to store them. I put a paper towel in the bottom of a grocery bag and load it up with carrots. I tie the top of the bag, but it doesn't seal completely, so there is a little air flow. I usually have enough carrots that I am just finishing the past year's crop when the new ones are coming ready in July!

Agree with a previous comment - it was a funny year for sure. All the “old faithful” crops didn’t do well for me this year. My lettuce was very bitter and only a couple tomato plants even produced fruit. Yet the raspberries produced far beyond when they usually do.