Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2007 13:15:34 GMT -5
What failed in your garden this year? Have you grown it sucessfully before?
For me it was corn and roma tomatos. I normally grow Silver Queen corn as my primary corn, the last 3 yrs I have tried Illiani and it has failed the last 2 yrs. This year I planted late and the only thing I could get was Illiani, so I planted 550 ft. of 3 seed hills. It came up great, looked like a bumper crop even with the dry weather. Previous years it did not even grow. Then at about 3 ft. it tasseled, and put on ears, long cobs half filled and full of worms. This is the wormest corn I have ever grown, the practical side of me says that the plants were not as healthy as the should have been, because it was so dry. I fertilized it twice and tilled it til it was waist high. I am ashamed to give it to friends, and I tell all that it died from lack of water. There is barely enough for my use and I don't have a back up crop.
As I said I planted late, so when I went to the greenhouse to tomatos I had to take what was left. I went to 3 greenhouses to get romas, and bought the last 12 plants they had. I normally plant twice that number and have way more than I need. Half died within 2 weeks, the rest still haven't bloomed, even though the large tomatos have been producing for a few weeks now. Very depressing to a guy that eats tomatos 3 meals a day in the summer. lol
My biggest error was listening to a neighbor who insisted I should have my garden ploughed, even though I was ready to go in April. I had to wait 2 weeks for the farmer to plough it, because he was ploughing evey acre he could rent for corn. (The new ethenol plants are opening this fall.) Then another week til the ground dried enough to get his heavy tractor into it. 2 more weeks till it rained on it a few times. 2 more weeks til he had time to disk it. Then I went through it with my rototiller, and finally had it ready to go in mid June, a full 6 weeks later than normal. I enlisted the help of my 2 nephews and gnephew for a marathon planting weekend, and planted it all at once. Then it stopped raining, and everything just stood there, drooping. We got rain about every 2 weeks and it was just enough to keep it from dying, finally I started watering it every week and it began to grow a little, but my water bill went up $40.
The upside is that I have some corn and tomatos, beans are producing ok, peppers are going nuts. The jury is still out on the pumpkins and cukes, that were an after thought. Overall a very depressing year.
For me it was corn and roma tomatos. I normally grow Silver Queen corn as my primary corn, the last 3 yrs I have tried Illiani and it has failed the last 2 yrs. This year I planted late and the only thing I could get was Illiani, so I planted 550 ft. of 3 seed hills. It came up great, looked like a bumper crop even with the dry weather. Previous years it did not even grow. Then at about 3 ft. it tasseled, and put on ears, long cobs half filled and full of worms. This is the wormest corn I have ever grown, the practical side of me says that the plants were not as healthy as the should have been, because it was so dry. I fertilized it twice and tilled it til it was waist high. I am ashamed to give it to friends, and I tell all that it died from lack of water. There is barely enough for my use and I don't have a back up crop.
As I said I planted late, so when I went to the greenhouse to tomatos I had to take what was left. I went to 3 greenhouses to get romas, and bought the last 12 plants they had. I normally plant twice that number and have way more than I need. Half died within 2 weeks, the rest still haven't bloomed, even though the large tomatos have been producing for a few weeks now. Very depressing to a guy that eats tomatos 3 meals a day in the summer. lol
My biggest error was listening to a neighbor who insisted I should have my garden ploughed, even though I was ready to go in April. I had to wait 2 weeks for the farmer to plough it, because he was ploughing evey acre he could rent for corn. (The new ethenol plants are opening this fall.) Then another week til the ground dried enough to get his heavy tractor into it. 2 more weeks till it rained on it a few times. 2 more weeks til he had time to disk it. Then I went through it with my rototiller, and finally had it ready to go in mid June, a full 6 weeks later than normal. I enlisted the help of my 2 nephews and gnephew for a marathon planting weekend, and planted it all at once. Then it stopped raining, and everything just stood there, drooping. We got rain about every 2 weeks and it was just enough to keep it from dying, finally I started watering it every week and it began to grow a little, but my water bill went up $40.
The upside is that I have some corn and tomatos, beans are producing ok, peppers are going nuts. The jury is still out on the pumpkins and cukes, that were an after thought. Overall a very depressing year.
As best as I can tell, most succumbed to bacterial wilt.
