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Gardeners
How are your plants doing?
Basil is going strong and hot pepper plants look good (I just picked 10 jalapenos), but that's it.
I've replanted romaine and mixed greens. They did really well the first go round and I liked getting lettuce from the back yard.
Chives, green onions, garlic, shallots, and bell peppers were mostly a bust. I've replanted chives and green onions. I'm on attempt #5 for cilantro - this is for sure the last try.
I just lost the second zucchini plant and both butternut squash plants to vine borers. Bastards.
The broccoli finally stopped producing so I pulled out the plants to make room for herbs and maybe some replacement zucchini.
I kinda wish the vine borers would get the cucumbers. I planted two vines that have gone crazy... and have no idea what to do with them besides tzatziki. Maybe we'll use them in the next batch of ceviche.
Tomato production has not recovered from the squirrels... finally getting some new flowers but no fruit yet. We bought bird block and placed a plug-in sonic device in the backyard to hopefully keep them away.
I also lost an avocado tree so we replaced it with another avocado tree... and a fig, and a lemon, and a Texas Rio grapefruit 
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since my back injury, my plants have been seriously neglected (i have watered, but that's about it). plus, i haven't cooked much so i've just composted a lot of the harvests.
my bell peppers are really happy! i am down to one cucumber plant, i pulled the others to make room for connor's pumpkin garden : )
all my peppers and tomatoes are still crazy happy.
i've tried twice with squash and zucchini, and it just flat out is not happening.
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Still a lot of green tomatoes, going strong. It's my best ever tomato year. The biggest threat to the tomatoes is DS, who likes to pick them very very green
I had a mystery vine that volunteered from my compost. Turned out to be pumpkin! I just harvest 2 pumpkins from it, but now it's dead.
Basil and chard are doing well.
I'm glad you posted this! After my bumper crop of 2 Early Girl tomatoes (only one after a squirrel chomp) and 6 cherries, I now have 30+ flowers on my big plant and probably more than 60 buds and flowers on the cherry. Do you think they're going to produce, or is the stretch of hot days ruining them?
I just pulled up my tomato plants yesterday. I pulled off about 17 green tomatoes, and some red ones that were so hidden by the "forest" I didn't even see them. They got some weird insect on them and no matter how much I sprayed, I couldn't keep them or the worms away.
We also had a ton of blooms. Probably 50 or so. The plants got to be about 8 feet tall - way too much for my little yard!
Basil plant is huge and getting bigger. Can't hardly use it enough. Parsley and Thyme are hanging in there. Cilantro is long gone.
Pulled up the banana pepper plant. Wasn't using them and it got kind of sad looking.
Serrano peppers still doing good, but we never use them. Won't plant them next year.
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Tomato plant died. Birds got to it, and I think they got to big for the container I had them in.
Cucumber vine got out of control. Harvested 36 gigantic cucumbers.
Bell pepper produced 2, and one small one growing now.
Jalapeno, died after transplant.
Basil did amazing, about 3 feet tall! Went to seed.
Rosemary hasnt grown a centimeter.
Parsley, died.
Thyme, producing slowly.
Red Onions died after transplant.
Lettuce did okay, the heat got to it.
I dont think I have a green thumb, granted it is my first year ever gardening.
Give it time...like years. My parents have two massive plants in their front yard that started from just tiny little pots.
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My garden now sucks sadly. We still have tomatoes producing along with our parsley, basil is trying and our hot pepper plant. Sadly my cucumbers, watermelons, & zucchini are toast. What a bad year we picked to start a garden!
Trying to think positive and look to the fall. We really enjoyed bringing things in from outside to eat.
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We have a pretty good and totally neglected rosemary plant at our old house. It took 5 years and no attention to get it ~2ft tall. I see a lot of new growth in cooler months.