Rough Growing Year
Anyone else have a rough season? Between the torrential down pours and the scorching heat it has been rough. Blight showed its ugly head in my tomatoes this year, killed 4 of my plants. The heat fried my cucumber vines, I replanted and the vines did take hold that time and grew quite well, blooms all over them, but very few cucumbers. And I have little bumblebees all over my garden daily. My green beans did quite well, and my blackberries exploded this year. Ya win some, ya lose some as the saying goes.
The same here; I was told it was the heat but it actually seemed cooler to me. My tomatoes made a few as did my cucumbers, squash & zucchini. The eggplant did ok but not great. Im waiting a few more weeks & put out the cabbage and maybe another fall item. Well see how it goes.
We would get 3 days in a row of torrential downpours, then a week of 95+ days. I started growing my tomatoes in raised boxes 3 years ago because my soil doesn't drain well and I lost 20 tomato plants one summer from so much rain. Since going to the raised boxes I have had great success until this year. The heat was relentless here 95-110 weeks in a row. We were getting a few good thunderstorms each week.
Good luck on the fungicide; I have tried several ones recommended by my local country nursery and have had little luck. I have some 10 year old Fertilome (sp?) fungicide that has about 10 times the active ingredient of the new eco-friendly stuff (that didnt work) that Im afraid to use so the fungus slowly decimated my squash & zucchini. I did eventually have some luck with Daconil but by then my plants were too far gone though I did get a few from each. Good luck with yours & let us know if you find something that works well.
With all the rain this spring it was hard to get things started in garden. Once able to plant them then the rain stopped and get everything so dry. I was watering just to keep them alive. I staked tomatoes using string between 2 steel post. Cabbage the bugs got, Radishes got so woody they didn't taste good. I had corn planted at 3 different times and first was close to tassle when drought hit and last corn was just 6 inches tall. The cucumbers were growing slow but making some and they were bitter to eat where vine was. Watering them every few days helped keep them alive. After the very first rain the tomatoes that were 4ft tall shot up to over 6ft and tomatoes come then and the weeds but it being still moist soil weeds pulled easy. Getting ready to plant the fall crops now.
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