Our Gardens

**duckduckgoose007** · 08-20-2009, 03:09 PM

Hi Everyone...Just wanted to tell you all about my Hubby's garden.

He planted 75 tomato plants and lost every one of them to the blight!
Every thing else is great...the corn we have had 6 times for supper and I froze 30 ears.
The cukes, peppers, and the zucchini are coming out of our ears!
We will harvest the beets, onions and potatoes this next week.
Guess we will be buying our tomatoes in cans this time around.
Hope you all have had good luck with your gardens....Liz

**Durgan** · 08-20-2009, 04:05 PM

Terrible news about your tomatoes. I am probably not far from you in Zone 5. My tomatoes are producing, but this is my worst year in the last six. I have 30 plants and 15 different varieties all started indoors. I wanted a prize crop to take pictures, but not his year.

Better luck next year. The refrain of most serious gardeners.

**redmaples** · 08-20-2009, 07:31 PM

sympathies to your tomato loss!
We were just admiring what was a beautiful crop, just a few days later it has succumbed to that heart breaking blight...we feel your pain.
I'm hearing the same sad story all around in western ny. Except for our neighbor farmer who sprayed with some kind of stuff earlier in the season.

It's a sad , sad situation.

**MomToTwoBoys** · 08-20-2009, 07:41 PM

I guess I'm not alone then.

So far, the prizehead lettuce and green onions were faaantastic! We had too much lettuce though, so I'm afraid it'll get wasted once it stops being nice out.

The tomatoes are another story. We had one plant fall over from lack of support (I didn't bet on it being 7-8 feet tall) but it is still producing fruit. Sadly, some of the fruit on one plant is splitting in half and there's this black mass on the inside of the split so it's not useable. The other tomato plant in the front produced superb fruit, but it isn't turning red. With the other two plants still not producing much fruit, we may be looking at one main plant and the Topsy Turvy plant as being our two main plants this year.

What would be causing the black holes and splitting on the side of the fruit? It's not blossom rot.

Our herbs did well so we're happy with that.

**frugalfranny** · 08-20-2009, 07:55 PM

Sorry about the tomato plants, DDG007, that is a lot of plants to lose. Glad to hear that it wasn't a total bust.

My tomatoes haven't done what they normally do..........and we haven't had the rain that some have had. With our last heat wave......then 5 days of off and on rain, and where I put the plant, I have had blossom end rot on a few fruits on one plant but thought I might have problems with it anyway.

Hope you get lots more veggies/produce from your garden.

**redmaples** · 08-21-2009, 10:28 AM

while it is sad to lose the tomatoes...it's good that we all still have lots of other things still producing! guess it's a bad year for some things 7 a great year for others.

**pinetree** · 08-21-2009, 12:15 PM

So sorry to hear about losing all your tomato plants, but glad to hear the rest of the garden is doing well.

We are in zone 5 and my tomato plants just started producing about 3 weeks ago, we have had so much rain & cool weather, I'm surprised we have anything growing. Our nights are getting down in the 40"s,so I might have to buy tomatoes also.

**Jerseygirl** · 08-22-2009, 11:14 PM

Believe it or not, I have had my best tomatoe luck ever this year and am just starting a slight blight in one back garden, second garden still ok. I started with 22 plants and all but one survived until we had to go away last week, then I lost a couple of beautiful patio plants that were on the porch and my big pot of herbs. My green beans have been good, but the one thing I usually get so much of, zuchini, only 1 so far, found it in the weeds after a week away, guess the rabbits missed it, almost 5 lbs and looked like a small bat, made 3 nights of stir fry!