Did Your Veggie Garden Do Well This Year?

Lee

Lee

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Chatham, Ontario
Mine did not, truly disappointing compared to other years. It was the non stop heat I think.

I did get some nice sugar snap peas with the early spring plant, mid August I planted again and six plants came up from two packs of seeds.

Green and yellow beans were plentiful in the spring plant and they seem to be outdoing their second performance in picking now.

Tomatoes....what can go wrong? They grow and grow till I want to yell "enough already"

4 red pepper plants, 2 peppers, that's it.

Radish, mesclun mix and beets....nadda worth talking about. Parsnips, nothing sprouted.

But my perennial border grew by leaps and bounds, will be dividing and sharing.
 

My sister's garden in Mississauga didn't do well this year .. however, my brother's garden in Vancouver yielded an abundance of over-sized veggies.
 

We had so much rain this Spring, that I didn't get into my garden until mid-May. By then, it was almost too late to expect the normal harvest. I got some radishes and cucumbers out of it, but I've just let the weeds take over. Sometime this Fall, I plan to burn the weeds, then plow it up, add some lime and fertilizer, and let it "marinate" through the Winter...and hopefully next Spring I can get it going again.
 
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Living in SoCal gives us the jump on planting. We do not have much room, so I have been growing 4 tomato plants every year. They are still producing, and probably will into October.
We also have a dwarf Meyer lemon. We had a tree guy look at it, and he pruned it, and suggest a certain fertilizer. It apparently worked, as we have got a lot of new growth and lemons.
 
A mixed year here in N E Scotland. At 58 deg North, we have a shorter growing season than England and, accompanied by an unusually dry spring, things didn't do too well. However, the dry spell helped to keep blight away and we had a good crop of potatoes (smaller tubers than usual). Tomatoes were slow to produce, but they're still cropping slowly. One success was the apple crop which was surprisingly good especially since they're still young trees. Gooseberries cropped well, but strawberries didn't.
 
Well it did ok until things started to mature. Then the deer ate everything. I am currently allowing a group of bow hunters access to my property. I hope they kill all the deer.
 

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