Anybody elses garden suck this year?

ChileRellanos

We have planted a garden for the past several years, and this was the first year it sucked! I think it was a combo of late freezes, persistently cool weather into July and too much rain and then 4 weeks straight of record breaking heat. My poor veggies had no clue what was going on.

kastle

My tomatoes just gave up.  The chipmunks uprooted my pole beans & the bunnies ate my bush beans.

I'm just calling the summer garden a loss & ripping everything out & sowing some lettuces.

living_insanity

My veggie garden is going okay but I have a really ugly butterfly bush this year.  We had really hot and dry weather here in July but I miss my purple flowers!

MRS.KLP

We had an attack by stink bugs on the cukes and zukes. Have had a lot of tomatoes and jalapenos. Not many green peppers for having so many plants.

ChristyDM82

Yes.  I got it planted 3 weeks late this year d/t tons of rain followed by going out of town for vacation.  My cucumber plant and butternut squash are 4 inches tall.  My zucchini plant is about 8 inches tall.  Needless to say, no fruti on any of them.

Carrot tops are small.  Pepper plants look like hell, peppers are small.  But that happened last year too so I'm wondering if my soil is missing something?

My bush and pole beans are doing great.  I'm the bean queen this year.

ChileRellanos

I've gotten like 4 zukes, 2 cukes, zero tomatoes, no peppers. I'm about to pull a bunch of crap up and see if I can get some lettuce and turnips and things

alissa2128

I'm glad to hear that it's not just my garden that's sucking! This was my first veggie garden, so I was thinking it was something that I had done wrong. Everything that I started inside looked so good, I had a ton of plants, but like one of the PP's said, I got started late planting outside because of several weekends in a row of rain and then I remember having a super hot weekend thrown in there at one point too. I do finally have some squash and possibly zucchini now, and a few cucumbers. My tomato plants just didn't grow when they got outside, and my pepper plants pretty much just all died. But I've learned a good amount and I am looking forward to trying again next year!

Mortomo

My bell peppers suck this year.  They get plenty of blossoms that start to turn into a pepper but fall off before it gets a chance to develop.  I think it might have to do with lack of sunlight because my tomatoes went crazy this year and have taken over the garden. 

My carrots taste really bad.  Not sure if it's the variety or if something went wrong.  They are really bitter and they aren't overgrown.  They look nice, just don't taste good.

My spinach went to seed almost as soon as it started to grow, so I didn't get anything out of it. Something comes and eats every.single.strawberry before it gets ripe, so I have yet to try a strawberry.

My eggplants and tomatoes are doing really well!  My snap peas did well early in the summer but then dried up.

living_insanity

I'm up to my ears in cucumbers.  I keep giving them away.  I will never plant three cucumber plants again

bostonbaker

This was our first year with a garden so I wasn't sure what to expect.  We planted some sweet peas that were not happy at all and died out early.  We've had three straightneck squash from one plant and zero zucchini squash from four plants.  Our eggplants are starting to do well, I'd say each plant has at least one growing on it right now.  The green bell peppers flowered early in July then kind of stalled out during the hot weather.  I read that they like to grow on cool nights and what do you know, this week the temps have finally started dropping at night again and a few peppers look like they are making some progress.  I would estimate we've had an average of two tomatoes per tomato plant.  We lost a lot of our early crop to blossom end rot, but now I think we have it under control and the upper parts of the plants are starting lots of new tomatoes, so hopefully we will get a lot more soon!

Amivy06

We didn't plant any veggies, but my parents did and they didn't have a lot of luck with their garden this year either. None of the flowers/plants at my house did well either. There was not as much blooming and more weeds than anything. I only had one hydrangea do exceptionally well. It was a bummer, but I'm hoping next year is better.

~NB~

My annual containers look like do-do, but everything else looks good.

The intense heat and unrelenting sun we've had the past 6-8 wks have been awful. I wish my new trees would all just be 20' tall by tomorrow, but of course it will be years before I get any shade.

+j+k+

The heat wave did a real number this year. I have absolutely no tomatoes this year and strangely enough, my urns of flowers did fine during the heat wave because I stayed on top of watering but they quickly crapped out when the heat ended.  They were stressed.

RiverPlate

11 tomato plants and probably 5 tomatoes.  Seriously.  First, they're producing very poorly, second, the ones that are growing I'm in a competition with the opposoms and squirrels to get.

My eggplants are doing well, my peppers look lovely but don't have any peppers!  They just look like great bushes.

Sigh.

RylandVT

We're just getting cherry tomatoes-alot of them but the plants themselves just look sad.  Absolutely nothing from the zucchini (they flowered and then fizzled), peppers, and cantaloupe-even the herb garden was sad.  We gave up watering and will try again next year.

PHNII

My garden sucked so bad that I'm giving up and doing a square foot garden for my fall crops. Our soil is horrible so I'm going a different route. I put so much time on my garden and got nothing except okra and a couple tomatoes. I'm talking about I planted a row of cucs and a row of squash. I got 3 squash and maybe 15 cucs total. SO not worth my time!!!!

ootmother2

Yes,mine.

 My impatience (sp?) didn't bloom other that one planter.

 My tomatoes are iffy.  I'll need another month or so to tell

 The only real successes are basil and mint.  I'ts growing alll over my patio, faster than I can make pesto sauce or even salad with them.

Anyone want a donation of huge amounts of mint for mojitos?

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kastle

UPDATE: A few weeks ago I sowed some arugula, carrots, mustard greens, turnips, kohlrabi & bush beans.  All sprouted super quick and are doing awesome.  And, my pole beans that were looking terrible are producing a bunch again!

So, it looks like fall garden might be another success.  This is assuming that tropical storm force winds don't destroy everything this weekend....

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