Anyone else grow their own vegetables?

[Cobia]

We just harvested our 1st sweet corn this year today.

I've got peppers, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, wax beans, potatoes, corn and pumpkins out.

The tomatoes and potatoes are getting blighted.

Corn borers are attacking the corn.

Still nothing beats fresh from the garden vegetables.

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[chatterboy]

1. Blighted tomatoes?

Ditto here. The anaheim and bell peppers have done well. Herbs have been exceptional this season, with other herbs to come ...

[Viking12]

2. Our tomatoes are doing great..

although we've had a recent snap of cold weather to slow things down. We had great crops of beans, peas, radishes. Carrots and beets are starting to mature nicely and we've got a few pumpkins that are growing exponentially. Our corn hasn't fared well.

Oh yeah, we have fruit too, going to have a bumber crop of pears if we can keep the squirrels away for another two weeks :)

[Wwagsthedog]

3. Amateur "gardener?" here

from SE Texas, just north of Houston. We had delicious tomatos and squash this year. Eggplants, herbs and jalapeno peppers are still producing. It's a miracle they lived unlike the melons and pole beans which suffered a terrible fate. We think the miracle of our tiny garden(s) is a very wet year where the rain was fairly well distributed until now (rained twice today too). Lots of sun with days of respite together with below average temperatures (<100). We're so proud that we're going to try to start some fall plants next month.

[Cobia]

4. We have had tons of rain early and little now

The South has been hammered.

At least I don't have to worry about wild critters. Just blight.

[Philostopher]

5. Got tomato problems here, too.

They're all stunted and have fungus or something from the 'belly button' (where the bloom comes off) that eventually spreads up the fruit.

The peppers are all doing marvelously, however. Every single pepper plant we have -- red sweet, chocolate sweet, hungarian wax, cayenne and jalapeno -- has been bearing like crazy.

Don't know what the problem is with the tomatoes. We had the same problem last year, and thought it had something to do with the fact I recycled the topsoil from the containers (we have to container them, we have too many rabbits and squirrels locally to grow things in the ground). Bought new topsoil this year, and they're still rotten.

Ah, well -- the peppers didn't do nearly as well last year, we had more plants and had the same number of peppers. Can't complain -- we had stuffed peppers for dinner last night.