How's the garden's doing???

[red maples]

How's the garden's doing. I have alot of small plants!!! they got stunted from the early rains. They seem to be finally growing a little corn is VERY short. no Beets, no zucc yet and only 1 yellow squash and as we all know they usually go crazy. lots of cuccs but this is the second planting, something snipped of the first batch!!! and I have no beans yet either!!!

But weird thing my peas are still going and still producing. get tired of eating peas need some other veggies to even things out a little.

[NH/Pete]

My plants are also on the small side. They seem to be kicking in now. The heat of the last couple of weeks seems to be helping.

I have all raised beds and have only watered twice all season.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

corn has ears, summer squash and cukes are coming every day, carrots doing good, beats are growing, radishes were crazy couldnt keep up with them, bean just hit so with 20+ PLANTS WE ARE GETTING OVER RUN, and tomatoe's are huge but not turning red, pumpkins starting to grow, peppers are slow, eggplant slow,






here some pics


some corn I started inside early and when planting that corn I planted the rest of the seeds, so I have like 200 corn plants

[KenWP]

Garden was doing great until she who must be obeyed decided to spray fertilizer or a insecticide-fungicide combo don't know which and killed off all the tomatoes,cabbage,culiflower and squash and pumpkins. Some how she got Roundup in there as it even killed off the grass in places. Oh and the blueberry bushs and the ruhrbarb. All this for a few dumb bugs and a couple black spots.

[maple flats]

Wow, that is terrible.
We have a poor blueberry crop, running at 1/3 at this point. In the garden, peas goo, beans just coming on, Strawberries did poorly, raspberries summer crop fair, fall crop looks like it will be super. Having hard time keeping deer out. Both gardens have a 7' fence but the deer still jump it. We just raised the fence, will see how that does. Now it it 8.5' high. Our soil is super so the plants look very tempting to the deer. Our 7' fence is light weight deer netting, they sometimes run right thru it. We just discovered a much heavier 8" poly fencing that we will be trying. This one costs over $400 for a 8' x 330' roll and we need 3 rolls, maybe 4, not sure about post price yet.

[Farmboy]

For a fall deer fence I suggest lead. It can be put up several ways including buckshot slugs or bullets and is very effective!

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

ok guys what the heck is causing mold/mildew rotting on my squash and zuccini? open to sun not over grown in weeds

[maple flats]

If your like us there has been too much rain and humidity recently. That might be a possible cause.
NH/Pete, I had a ground hog 2 or 3 yrs ago. He was hard to get. I put out a baited live trap but he was too smart. I finally had to shoot him from a distance. Even with that he made it to his hole and went in. I filled in the hole and never saw him again. good luck!

[Rhino]

Flatlander, Just a hunch but i would guess you got powdery mildew on your plants. Typical this time of year especially with the shortness of the days and lots of moisture both rain and humidity. My pumpkin patches and squash patch all have a touch of it and the vines are now all breaking down letting me get a glimpse of the crop that is hidden beneath the jungle. Lots of orange and nice size howden pumpkins. I did start harvesting squash and selling a week ago. Butternut squash needs a tad bit more time, 120 day seeds. Back to the powdery mildew, if it's affecting the actual veggie, i would say you got it real bad. sometimes on my pumpkins the stem might have a bit on it but a rag washes it off at harvest time. You might have some other type of problem??? Hope it dosn't wipe your crop out.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

i will know more about the garden in the morning, it spent majority of day under water. Will this make any of the vegis or fruit bad?