zxcvbob wrote:
Kris wrote:
Hi all,

I've been accessing my tomato patch this year with dismay. I've had
few tomatoes compared to last year.

What is also puzzling is that some plants are doing much better than
ones right next to it! They all received the same amount of water.

Someone told me there was "tomato blight" (not sure what that is) this
year. We also had a record cold July, which didn't help I'm sure.

Did anyone else experience this?

Kris


I've been having trouble with Late Blight for several years, but usually
manage to get a crop anyway. This year I planted a blight resistant
variety called "Legend". Also I planted "Porter", which doesn't have
any particular disease resistance, but it's supposed to do well in poor
weather. I planted 6 Legends and 5 Porters.

Everything was very late this year. I've picked 6 fruit off Legend so
far, probably will get about 5 or 6 more before they are done. The
plants are eat-up with blight. The Porter plants look gorgeous. No
disease and no insects, but they are a later variety and I haven't
gotten anything off of them yet. They have green tomatoes on 'em, but
not a lot.

Haven't picked a single pepper or eggplant yet. The one jalapeño that
survived the rabbit attack has a few little peppers on it. The ají
peppers are tall and healthy, but no little peppers yet. I'm really
****ed about that because I was growing them for seeds, and there's very
little chance of getting even 1 red fruit before frost.

Here in zone 9a our tomatoes totally flopped, we had a number of cherry
toms picked but only a few of the round red regular toms. I'm still
growing Aji Limon de Peru chiles and the plants are gorgeous, damned few
chiles on them though. It has been a wet spring and summer though. The
Aji's should do better when we dry out a little this fall.

Eggplants just
started blooming.

We planted Ping Tung eggplants this year instead of our usually Ichiban.
The Ping Tungs gave us two or three wizened little eggplant fruit and
then died. Next year we go back to Ichiban, they seem better for our
climate. May plant Louisiana Long Green again next year, they do well too.

I planted pepinos (Solanum muricatum) this year for
the first time, and they are blooming but no fruit yet. The tomatillos
are covered with empty balloons but no fruit yet. (notice a trend?)

Basically, the whole garden has been a bust this year.

Bob

We got several pints of green beans in the freezer and also in jars.
Beaucoup sweet chiles and the okra went completely nuts this year.
Everything else sort of failed. Oh well, hope springs eternal in a
gardeners heart, next year will be better and we're already putting in
the fall garden.