How is everyone’s garden doing this year?

Between the weather, insects, and rabbits I have literally nothing. I lost my last tomato plant this last week.

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I have raised beds, Durablegreenbeds. When I purchased them they came with two ollas. I love them. My garden is small, artichokes have already bloomed, and are finished for the season. My tomato plants got beaten up twice by hail storms, but are doing well.

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ery interesting about the ladybugs. Please expound on the color/famine? I never heard this before. Here in Ohio there were very few Morels/mushrooms either, which was very strange.

Sugar beets can be eaten like regular beets. However here in Michigan they are grown until they are too woody for fresh consumption and then processed into white sugar (like sugarcane)

Kid pools and containers mostly. It keeps them off the ground and I can move them around if need be. We kept the ground runners on the ground. Cats keep most things away. Everything is doing great. Too much rain early on, but just enough now.

With all the rain we've had it's been a bumper crop.

I've been handing out tomatoes to people I don't even know...

Mine's doing great, probably start eating beans from it next week :D Maters in a few weeks. Greens and brocolli already being harvested. "Recreationals" also doing well, first attempt at them, one is getting a little sun scorched i think.

Asian beetles are the biggest problem here, they plague my poor garden, and I dislike killing anything, even a "stupid bug". I just flick them knowing damn well they can fly right back. "Why cant you eat that maple over there...." and flick it in that direction...but they fly right back.

Big Boys, Early Girls and Jet-Stars are YUUUGE! very happy with their progress...

Thank you, I thought sugar was made from it there (all our sugar is from cane here) but wondered how it could be sweet enough for a sugar, and yet edible. I understand now

Sadly, this will be the plight of all sheeple that make it to a plot of land with no experience when SHTF. You can learn/research most everything on video tubes. And commit this to memory: Sevin liquid or dust. I have great results with Sevin concentrated liquid. Bifen IT (keep back from the garden) kills most everything else, and is also GREAT for mosquitos.

And carpenter bees!!!!! DOA

Neem oil is a waste of time for serious invasions like white flies. Malathion is too strong for many plants. My white flies fed on Organocide and Neem. Only Sevin liquid worked.

I know they're good pollinators but my wooden porches took priority. Couldn't afford a completely new porch right now.

I know they're good pollinators but my wooden porches took priority. Couldn't afford a completely new porch right now.

I know they're good pollinators but my wooden porches took priority. Couldn't afford a completely new porch right now.

I did not do the triple^. Time to tweak the program................

It sounds everyone's reporting a normal year so far and that would go for us too. I'm surprised OP is still harvesting asperagas, cause ours would play out by the 1st week in June.

It's a very late year compared to average. Long, wet, late spring weather with a mid-April freeze stunted and/or killed most everything set out early. Muscadines crop is huge but about 1 month behind. Tomatoes are just getting started if they survived too burning hot weather. My ones that did are now loaded. Too wet, too long + freeze quickly followed by too hot is challenging even for a master gardener like myself. Peppers are running way late as are beans. But I never give up.

Wow! Is that your garden? I am so jealous. I wish I had that much space.

Enjoy a plentiful harvest!

The Rhubarb was HUGE this year.

Raspberries here are insane! first week we had over a quart. Second week 2 quarts.Only an 8' x 10 ' bed.

We had a hail storm, but everything is fine. It thinned the leaves some, but no real harm. Started late though. Should have 40 or 50 stalks of corn, but only 8 made it. Not close together either, so I will have to assist pollination.

EVERYTHING else is growing like mad.
This is the first year that ALL of my seedlings thrived and survived the transplant. Hardening off is difficult here in the windy Badlands of ND.

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Burnt to a crisp!

Grapes are thriving though! Olives as well!

huge tomatoe plants not one tomatoe

Fun thread!

My garden is doing well this year, in spite of 10 months without moisture. I dug "oyas" here and there and covered them to prevent evaporation. I fill these twice a week and they slowly water the surrounding area.

Borage is blooming and brought lots of bees in for pollination - that is a plus.

This is the first year I've had a dozen ducks outside the garden fence. The fowl yard surrounds the garden. Results: NO BUGS! I will never try to garden without ducks from now on.

We harvest our grey water and filter it by planting reeds and cattails in it. . . this area usually breeds a miserable amount of mosquitos, but the ducks have wiped out all the mosquito larva.

I am gardening in 30 - 60% shade this year because the sun seems so much brighter. Last year it burned up the lettuce and more tender plants. This year, I've enjoyed the same bed of lettuce for 4 months. Same with beet greens and spinach greens. . . shade is definitely the way to go in high desert sunshine.

I don't have much room, only for a few tomatoes & peppers.
My tomato plants got blight. I got a few good tomatoes, but I'm no sure how many more there will be. My peppers are doing great. I only have 6 plants, but it looks like we will have quite a few.

I don't go near my garden due to an intense fear of things with more legs than me.

Over the last few Years my raspberry bushes were starting to turn Yellow by mid-June. This was very odd since, this is something only seen in August in my area.

This Year my tomato plants are doing very poorly and my mother and her
neighbour also noticed the same thing. The leaves of these plants are curling
as if to avoid getting too much Sun??…I have had been gardening for over a decade now, and have not seen anything like this.

That chicken claw cultivator is also called a potato fork or take. I use mine to scratch like a giant chicken but it's meant to rake potatoes.

Im planting sticks and watering them hoping to grow soil in clay.

In the meantime I have some green beans, green tomatoes, green peppers and all kinds of basil. I sometimes find a scraggly lettuce leaf. Got cucumbers in late but they might surprise me. Sage survived a transplant and once mint takes hold you can't kill it if you wanted to.

You should have seen the look on yardmans face when he saw my green beans laid out in a three by four grid.

I totally didn't get the concept of mounding potatoes. Are they supposed to vine along the ground? Or do you try to grow them straight up?

Maybe I will have an autumn garden. Lettuces and beets, carrots and radishes. Simple things. Spinach.