Vegetable garden not growing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For veggies the crab shell soil amendment from Grey Goose Farm, or the bags of lobster compost (Good Earth had these) are better than all others. For me better performance than leafgro, which I use for my flowers

I'm going to try this next year, thanks for the suggestion. I usually mix in Leafgro but feel like my plants need something else. Certain things have done great- best year for garlic, greens and cilantro in recent memory. Tomato plants and squash are coming along. Peppers, eggplant, and basil have barely grown. I sprinkled some Espoma fertilizer out there this morning since it is about to rain.

[Anonymous]

tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

Fruit follow flowers. If the flowers are still there the fruit cannot be. Give it time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

Fruit follow flowers. If the flowers are still there the fruit cannot be. Give it time.

I am trying, been covered in flowers for weeks now with more flowers coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

Fruit follow flowers. If the flowers are still there the fruit cannot be. Give it time.

I am trying, been covered in flowers for weeks now with more flowers coming.

Be patient with tomatillos! Have you grown them before? Next you'll get the "lantern" phase and it will take a while for the fruit to fill in.

[Anonymous]

Green beans and peas from direct sow are flowering. Though they were planted late because the first batch of seeds were gobbled up by greedy birds. Transplanted tomatoes looked so sad until just this week. Transplanted peppers from seeds are pitiful but the plants from cox farms are fine. Cukes and squash aren’t flowering yet but growing. Hoping last year’s stupid voles will just stay away...

Planted potatoes in April, squirrels stole most of them but the remaining 5 look okay.

Mixed greens from seed have already provided a few full salads and keep producing but my arugula bolted way too early.

Every year it’s a crapshoot as to which vegetable is bountiful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

They are actually tricky to grow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For veggies the crab shell soil amendment from Grey Goose Farm, or the bags of lobster compost (Good Earth had these) are better than all others. For me better performance than leafgro, which I use for my flowers

I'm going to try this next year, thanks for the suggestion. I usually mix in Leafgro but feel like my plants need something else. Certain things have done great- best year for garlic, greens and cilantro in recent memory. Tomato plants and squash are coming along. Peppers, eggplant, and basil have barely grown. I sprinkled some Espoma fertilizer out there this morning since it is about to rain.

Basil wants way mroe heat than we have had so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

They are actually tricky to grow.

Agree. I've tried several times and got 3 or 4 one year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:tomatillos - I have 4 plants all next to each other and tons upon tons of little flowers - not a single fruit. I see a few bees here and there, but not a lot of pollinators. Is that why I have not yet a single fruit growing? I even tried to pollinate using a paint brush and gently shoving flowers into each other!

Tomatillos are usually 80 days until the first fruit.

[Anonymous]

NOW YOU KNOW HOW FARMERS FEEL

Just kidding. I’m actually two generations removed from farmers. They loved that life. They were college-educated and one grandfather was a lawyer who farmed on the side (?). I don’t get it. I can grow things but it doesn’t fulfill me or anything.

[Anonymous]

I'm not trying to brag here, I'm just happy that for once my garden is working out. The lettuce came in nice in three groupings. First has just now started to wilt. Been eating peas for weeks and they are still producing. Spinach was a total failure, arugula was so so. Radishes were good but went tough early. Had one cucumber so far and just this morning picked 3 cherry tomatoes for my omelet. I know, my garden will now likely be struck down for typing this. Knocking on wood.

[Anonymous]

I had a good start. I had 6 great kohlrabies, lots of spinach, and romaine. Then I had two nice zucchini. Now everything is stalling. Plants are getting bigger but no veggies. My squash get to about 2 inches and then stop and rot. One of my tomato plats have its leaves curling up. Any thoughts on that? I do have a bell pepper the size of a small apple though. Lots of flowers on my beans but that's it there. Thoughts on rotting squash and leaf curl on tomatoes?

[Anonymous]

Any thoughts on this...my squashes grow to about two inches and then just stop and rot.

[Anonymous]

First time growing carrots here... any idea when they should be harvested?