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$500 a plate spaghetti sauce
General Schvantzkopf said:
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year was my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants died, those that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple of quarts of sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the remaining tomatoes are going to ripen because the plants think it's fall (the leaves on my blueberry bushes have already turned color). My corn isn't maturing either, I've got small ears with missing kernels. The peas and beans all died in July. My peas always die in July. (And the spring lettuces that are left alway bolt.) Always. This year we have had adequate heat and adequate rain to mid-July. Then the free water stopped so it's all been irrigation since. The sweet corn has been fantastic (no earworms, no bird damage). The tomatoes have been great, ripening in a steady stream, except now I'm getting some BER, what with the lack of rain. Some leaf spotting showing up on the tomatoes in cages, but the staked tomatoe are OK. Pole beans have hit a lull, but should pick up again (especially if we get some rain). Peppers ok, but the damned pepper maggots are back hard this year. Should have sprayed for them. Summer squashes have done really well. Pulled one that looked diseased, otherwise no sign of squash vine borer. Hitting the stems every day or so with pyrethrum spray (once they got too bulky to hand-pick the borer eggs) seems to have worked. Or maybe we just didn't have as many moths this year. Or both... Winter squashes have spread all around. Lots of green ones here and there. Don't notice any butternuts, though, just Rumba and Tetsukabuto, and I've only spotted one jack o'lantern pumpkin. Onions have been good, leeks are sizing up, got some decent looking kohlrabi out there, and one cabbage that grew from a seed in the kohlrabi package that's really tiny. Have no idea what the celeriac are doing under the ground (that's an experiment) and the potatoes I felt for seemed small. The potato plants have already mostly died back. There are two beds cleared and prepped for fall lettuce and bok choi, and the plants are well started in 3" square pots. Just want it to rain, or at least have a good promise of rain, or even a *really cloudy* day, before I transplant them out. July was solid torrential rain, and August has been cold which is why the plants think it's fall. I'm seeing some trees coloring up early, probably because it's been so dry lately and all that leaf surface is more a liability than an asset, with the days already growing rapidly shorter. I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had better results than these? I'm in Michigan, where I guess it has been a better summer than yours, mostly. -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) After enlightenment, the laundry. |
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