Banner year for squash, tomatoes and eggplants . Pretty decent for most everything else to.
Banner year for squash, tomatoes and eggplants . Pretty decent for most everything else to.
Peter1469 (08-19-2018)
Pretty much a banner year all the way around with a lot of the production coming in early. No doubt this will be the most volume of food I've produced in about 200 square feet, even better than last year. I'll be going over 100 squash and a thousand tomatoes by the looks of things, the majority of them cherry and grape tomatoes , but some big species thrown in as well. I generally am lucky to get a couple of eggplants here as they don't seem to get pollinated but with a little help from strategically placed purple wild flowers, even clover, I've got at least a dozen on the way and couple which may get eaten tomorrow!
How are you other gardeners doing this year?
My garden is out of control. I could spend all day, every day working in my garden. It’s like a South American jungle. My corn and beans are huge. I can’t even walk through them without tearing some out. It’s crazy.
I have a bumper crop of everything this year.
Last year I got a truck load of “Zoo Doo”’ I tilled it into my soil last year and I wasn’t impressed. This year, I’m guessing it had a year to cure and my garden took off.
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Common Sense (08-29-2018)
Sometimes a little hardship makes things like corn or grapes sweeter. The ideal growing conditions can allow them to grow too fast, so they don't build up the sugar. Also, too much nitrogen in the soil also contributes to really rapid growth, which again can be bad for the sweetness of fruit. It's great for greens, not so much for corn, tomatoes, berries etc. Corn usually goes through a hot dry period from the mid to end of the summer that slows down the growth and allows the sugars to develop in the cobs. Energy wasted in growing tall is taken from the sweetness of the fruit. So the cause could either be the weather or the high nitrogen content in your soil.
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