GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post

George Shirley[_3_] · 10-07-2014, 02:02 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

On 7/10/2014 7:35 AM, wrote:
This is the worst gardening year I have ever had. The peppers have been a disaster since I started them in January, the voles were a huge problem early on, it stayed cold forever and then it instantly got hot ruining the cabbage and broccoli. As of today the cucumbers are all yellow and there are no more flowers and the squash has borers. Guess it is going to be an expensive winter.
MJ

And exactly the opposite here in Houston area. Gardens are going nuts
with the exception of squash, we have a problem with squash borers. Lots
of eggplant, both Ichiban and Black Beauty, sweet chiles are producing
like crazy, Hopi red limas doing the same, crowder peas are a little
slow but my lovely wife planted tomatoes in front of them and very thick
at that. Naturally the stink bugs got into the tomatoes but we thinned
the plants and the bugs moved out.

Our very small fig tree has produced about a quart of figs, where we
lived before the fifteen year old fig produced dozens of quarts, we miss
that tree. The kumquat is covered with blossoms so there might be a
small crop of kumquat fruit this fall. Swiss chard is still going crazy,
harvest a batch every other day. Cukes also going crazy, giving them to
the neighbors as we have a pantry full of pickles from last year.

Getting just enough rain to only have to water the raised beds every
other week, supposed to be a bit of rain today according to the wx heads.