This year's garden

[Danielle_E.]

Anyone else have strange looking tomatoes this year? They aren't pretty but still taste good. Most of them are deformed and seem to have multiple looking tomatoes growing as one.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

I have read that this is caused by a soil pathogen. It is so hard to rotate crops; our space is limited since we are using raised beds, but I know one is supposed to plant in different areas every year.

We are cooling off alittle here, and we put up a 40%UV shade. I actually picked a cucumber today. The cucumber, cantelope, tomato vines are putting out new growth. Hopefully we will get another round of produce before frost. Planted shard for fall and I need to do broccoli.

 

[Danielle_E.]

I planted my tomatoes in a different area this year but they still look strange. I have tried to grow watermelon for 3years and this year is the first year that I was successful, very strange. Cucumbers are fine, cantaloupe, winter squash, peppers but no pumpkins ;-(.

 

[Minimor]

My tomatoes are good; cucumbers are very slow; pumpkins and squash are TINY. Zucchini are great. Melons --well, make that one melon, that's all that formed!--it is tiny and odd looking.

 

[Bess Kelly]

Well weather has a lot to do with things -- too hot, cold, too much or not enough water, etc. Sometimes it effects the plants growth and often whether fruit sets, etc. So, while soil is a blame, often other things cause as many problems.

Next yr I can complain, LOL. This yr no garden. BUT, I did get a portion of my small green house/hoop house started today. Yippie..........hope to get it mostly finished by end of next week. Nothing fancy, functional though. Maybe even use it this winter.

And need to cut & nail all that wood together to make my chicken coop since I picked up 10 young pullets today

Had a large cage ready but need the coop done. Sure would be nice if my framer son would drive home & help

Fat chance!!

 

[Danielle_E.]

Just looked at our apple trees. Going to be a poor year for apples, sigh

 

[bevann]

No garden here this year.Karl has big ideas every year, but can't take the heat to care for it.I did 4 tomato plants in a lot I had previously used as a dry lot and sprayed with pramitol.Plants did ok for a few weeks and then slowly died 1 at a time.I figure as roots got deeper they reached the poisioned soil.Next year maybe a different location.Cucumbers in my area are pricey 50 cents for 1!!! and not very large.Got some tomatoes today at the local farmer's market-very nice and great taste.I'm off on Sunday to pick peaches again at a nearby orchard.Did some last week and I hardly had to move to get the box full..Pick them not ripe and use them as they ripen on the porch.Put a few in the freezer with Splenda&lemon juice to keep the color.They will be nice this winter.Saw on the news last night that apples in my area are ready to be picked now due to the weird weather in spring.Grower says not good since people don't want to pick apples in hot weather.I LOVE the fresh fruits and veggies of summer.Other than that I'm ready for summer to be over and get to sweatshirt weather.I sweat so much I stay wet all summer even with AC on in the house if I'm moving at all.Hurry up October

 

[Carolyn R]

Any chance if you purchased them as starter plants or purchased seeds that they were actually the tomatoes that were the nicknamed "ugly tomatoes"? They do grow unpredictably and are actually ugly compared to regular tomatoes (but taste very good).

 

[Bess Kelly]

Fruit -- in my area most of us lost our plums. Really warm late Feb and they bloomed! Got cold, few blossoms set. Apples, too hot, few set. I got 2 apples.

Pear trees did better but, not well. Shame -- it's a yr when everyone would love to have had a good crop, esp with all the "other" crops going down.

We have had heat but enough rain that the corn, soybeans, etc. did well. Farmers are happy but, won't make up for the losses nationwide. I will get some local corn for chicken treats but, that's about it. Weather is so extreme everywhere.