| | foxtrot11 said "| | Abbysmum said "Lots of tomatoes, but they're smallish. Delicious though! Some blossom end rot if I leave them on the vine too long, but otherwise they're doing okay.
Zucchini has been plagued with mildew that I can't seem to get rid of. Yield is way down from what I anticipated.
Most of my peppers didn't even produce. I have 1 green pepper, 2 hot peppers and about 5 sweet hungarians. That's all that was produced in about 12 plants.
Beans and peas leaves were eaten by something. Kale was also infested and eaten.
Pumpkin made gazillions of blooms, but I only can see one, solitary pumpkin.
Apples are ready to be picked, that's tomorrow's project. The few apples left on the tree after all the wind losses are nice and big, however. " |
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Do you live in? Just curious if micro climates have had much to do with garden trends this year or if it is just an odd year for all. As I mentioned though, I have never had a better year for salsa and jalpeno peppers - I have four of each plant and have canned a dozen jars already, with at least that many more I need to get on this weekend....(and they are right beside my tomatoes, where I usually grow them)
I have not had any issues with blossom end rot (nor cut worms) since I began saving all my egg shells through the year and crushing them into fine shards and mixing it in to our tomato patch. Tomatoes like the calcium, that is for sure.
This year we had a strange blight that took half the leaves off the bottom of the tomatoes though - one I have never seen before. The leaves turned yellow with brown blotches. I pruned them all off and it did not return. Curious if anyone has a suggestion as to what that might have been??
I have heard that tomatoes can become "tired" if you do not rotate the area they are in...like the soil needs a crop rotation every so often. I wonder if the six or seven years I have used the same planter might have something to do with it too.
Maybe I should plant a legume in that planter next year...
Anyone have thoughts on that? " |
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I'm in Riverheights. With the amount of storms we've had this year, I wouldn't be surprised if we were set up for microclimates - just yesterday I drove from my house to Knox Church at Vic & 18th and back to pick up my daughter around 4 o'clock, and it was pouring rain between 34th & my destination, but once you got west of 34th again it barely rained in comparison.
I've had that with the tomatoes too. They plants are dying off very early this year, and I'm hesitant to can them because you're not really supposed to can from damaged plants. I rotate my tomatoes every year, and some are in brand-new garden/soil/containers so I know it's not tired. I put my eggshells in my compost and generally my plants do really, really well.
I've noticed this year that fruits will start growing, but then just stop and fall off the plant (or just stop and stay tiny and rot on the plant)! Zucchini, cucs, tomatoes and peppers all did that! It's so weird, I've never experienced anything like that. My grandmother in Winnipeg also noticed that this year, she's 85, grew up on the farm and ALWAYS has a garden, and she never recalls plants doing that either.
I blame the weather.