because it did poorly this year, this post is dedicated to my joke of a garden
I planted 100+ seeds of corn. The tallest stalk is 4'. These are the corn ears all tassled out. They measure, oh, I would say about 3".
I had three, 40 ft rows of tomato plants. This is the only one that bears anything. They were to be big easting tomatoes. 
I had planted over 24 starters of broccolli. Here are the only three that came up. No heads.
The acorn squash? Well six plants. This is the only one. The plant is now dying off and you can see that it grew no bigger than 1/2 the length of my bread pan.
Last but not least, the lone sickening head of cauliflower. I had over 24 plants I started and this is the lone survivor. Ick!
So you can see I have given up this year and let the weeds eat what we could not. There were other failures that never made it to sunlight: Carrots, limas, cantalope, green peppers, chinese cabbage, eggplant, watermellon. I had them all started, covered with soda bottles in case of frost into June, then they all just disappeared. Gone! I do have very small butternut squash that reseeded from last year and it is doing o.k. among the weeds but I don't think it will mature enough to eat.
Oh, and here is my wonderful sunflower! I planted a dozen along the south fence of my garden. Most look like the stem of this one with leaves browned, or not there at all, just a dead stick that stands about 18" tall.
3 comments:
Loved your post! Because, I too, love to garden, I wanted to cry hearing about your crop misfortunes... And, because, I too, love to garden, I wanted to laugh hysterically as your crop misfortunes. Been there... I know it is so frustrating (smile). After a day of blistering heat (which also happened to be the one day of the entire summer where I didn't water in the a.m.), I was near tears walking my gardens and seeing everything on their last leg... Thankfully, that same night, I saw the humor in the situation. Gardening comes from the heart - not the products reaped. Next year, God Willing, your garden will flurish!
Well my garden didn't do well either but atleast I did not spend on plants etc like you did. And I didn't get cukes beans plenty of tomatoes and peppers. Oh and so far 28 ears of corn. DAR
Do you think it was cooler weather, too much rain, not enough rain? Did you plant your garden in a new spot? Did you put something down that maybe shouldn't have been put down? Sorry you had such poor luck with your garden this year.
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