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Post by daylilydude on Aug 29, 2018 4:29:57 GMT -5
Have you gotten the harvest that you thought you were going to get this year... good or bad?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 7:02:44 GMT -5
No, between the rats and the heat at the CG, everything just was a goner. Nada from the garden this year, but there's next year and hope for better as usual, LOL!!
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 29, 2018 7:08:31 GMT -5
I actually did. I thought that there was a chance that I might have to actually buy some tomatoes but I started picking them at first blush and letting them ripen in the house. This gave us fresh tomatoes and then finally when it quit raining every day I started to get enough tomatoes for freezing. They were not as pretty as usual but they were still fresh, good tasting tomatoes.
Other crops did well enough in spite of the terrible weather. Most years I have plenty to give away but this year I had a little less to give away to the Assisted Living Home but still enough for us.
I was planning on planting some fall peas but it has stayed too hot for that so I guess that my pea harvest was not as good as I had hoped but everything else was pretty good.
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Post by paulf on Aug 29, 2018 7:14:37 GMT -5
Because of the use of the new raised beds, the green bean, cucumber, onion, beet harvest was better than expected. But in the regular garden, harvest of my main crop, tomatoes and peppers seem to be way down in poundage and numbers and average size and weight of fruit. To make up for the reduced production, the quality and flavor is the best ever. Trade-offs.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 29, 2018 7:46:22 GMT -5
Tomatoes were down, due to disease, from constant wetness, plus some varieties that I won't grow again. Same problem with cukes. New bitter melon also didn't do well in the wetness. Beans down due to rabbits. Melons I simply won't try again. Same with summer squash, even though covering did prevent SVBs. Peppers are producing more than I'll be able to use; only one plant not producing a bunch. About average eggplant harvest, despite 2 new varieties not being keepers. Those bottle gourds I will definitely grow again, but maybe in succession planting, as one produces enough for me, but they stop when they get oversized. Butternuts are doing well. 1 of 3 succumbed to disease, yet the other two look great!
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Post by ladymarmalade on Aug 29, 2018 8:07:38 GMT -5
Most definitely not. But next year is looking mighty promising!!
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Post by spike on Aug 29, 2018 8:26:35 GMT -5
LOL no >,< My garden has been refuse this year. What I have managed to grow the most of is weeds and I loathe weeds in my garden. My peppers did okay in their raised bed but the seeds I started from the seed swap I joined were not what they said they were. MANY banana peppers. I managed a couple of small pickings of green/wax beans, tomatoes died and the corn finally got 3 foot tall.
Have HIGH hopes for next year!!
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Post by pondgardener on Aug 29, 2018 8:54:16 GMT -5
It was very dry here for most of the summer, so the tomatoes, peppers and squash really took off. Had so many tomatoes that I have canned almost all the things I normally do and donated 35# of tomatoes yesterday to a local restaurant that we frequent. There are at least 3 pumpkins that look to be over 50#, that we are going to take to our new grandson on the other side of the mountains for his first Halloween. I have had to compost quite a few wheelbarrows of water hyacinths from the ponds already to free up some open water. First patch of Mirai corn was great and the next patch will be ready to pick in a week. Cucumbers are wilting, possibly due to cucumber beetles, but all in all, this has been a blowout year. And there are possibly two months left before it freezes!
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Post by octave1 on Aug 29, 2018 9:22:45 GMT -5
Very good harvest for me. Everything I planted grew and produced abundantly. The garden had to contend with the worst Japanese beetles infestation that decimated the bean patch twice, endless 90º+ days, and spotty precipitations. But I did get more than enough. I haven't bought veggies in well over two months.
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Post by september on Aug 29, 2018 9:55:46 GMT -5
No complaints, I got plenty of everything. Especially wonderful and much earlier were peppers. My Fortex pole beans looked skimpier this year, but the various bush beans more than made up for them. Onions did not get as large as hoped, they ended up about the same small to medium size as last year, though they were planted a month sooner and were much healthier transplants going into the ground.
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Post by shelleybean on Aug 29, 2018 11:35:44 GMT -5
It's been a good season for green beans, field peas and cucumbers this year but not much of anything else. Tomatoes and peppers way down. Squash did really poorly. I have a few fall seeds planted to fill in the empty spaces and I am already planning next season.
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Post by carolyn on Aug 29, 2018 11:52:53 GMT -5
every year is a different year.last year I had no tomatoes to sell by the bushel. I picked 5 bushels of tomatoes this morning. and I have probably picked 15 bushels already. I was picking bushels of cucumbers most went to the compost. now the white fly and aphids have moved in. I went and bought 3000 ladybugs yesterday to release in the garden after the rain tonight... if it rains. sounds like its supposed to pour. the cantaloupes were the worst crop I have ever had. no flavor. watermelons have been fabulous. I have picked a bushel of greenbeans this week already. without keeping close records... this is the 4th planting and I have probably picked 3 bushels off each planting. I have two more plantings of beans to harvest as long as they flower and grow. apples and grapes are just starting. the plum tree had no none nada zilch zero plums this year. I picked and processed 2 bushels of elderberries before the SWD got into them and destroyed what was left. all in all... its been a greatly productive year.
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Post by Gianna on Aug 30, 2018 22:09:44 GMT -5
Bush beans - same as usual, and dependent on succession planting.
Tomatoes - more than some years ...because I planted more plants.
Chili peppers - more and more lush, thick walls. But this year I both watered more frequently, and covered them with shade cloth. Don't know which treatment was more effective, but I'll definitely do both again. The fruits are just gorgeous this year.
Cukes and Zukes… enough of both ,but not too much.
New things - yacon and new pepita variety - no fair basis of comparison.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Aug 30, 2018 22:26:13 GMT -5
Thinking it has been a good year. Only regret , should have planted more corn. Don't think goin to starve!
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Post by guruofgardens on Sept 3, 2018 7:40:09 GMT -5
No. We got hailed on 5x but the last one took the garden with it. Whatever was harvested before the hail was great - cucumbers made into lots of pickles. Broccoli was great. Great garlic. The tomatoes I left on the few remaining plants have dings, so I can save seeds and hope for the best next year. The pepper skeletons are beginning to leaf out, but there's no time for flowers.
So, the garden at home has been put to bed and the plot at the community garden still has root crops,and some struggling beans. There is always next year.
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Post by horsea on Sept 6, 2018 10:10:42 GMT -5
Rather ghastly. Pickling cucs did poor. 2 jars of pickles. LOL. Tomatoes - hardly any. Mostly small where they should have been large. (But cherry toms did well.) Winter squashes. Plants healthy but only a few females showed up. Those few, I hand pollinated. My Kikuza - only one flower and no males, but it's doing okay, anyway... I am told (right or wrong) that when it gets continuously hot & dry for months (over 90 deg. F.)something happens to the pollen and it can't do its work. But strangely my Cocozelle (a much much better type of zucchini) did well. As did my basil. The happiest, bestest basil ever. I am sorry for those of you who also had disappointing yields this year, but the truth is that Misery Loves Company. But gardening - well, that's Next Year Territory.
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