Sad Garden This Year

This years garden is sad. None of the explosive growth from two summers ago. My plants are not doing great, and I am not sure why. I’ve had extreme pest issues, and in general a lot of yellowing leaves around the base of everything, and I have just not figures it out yet.

However, I’ll just keep at it.

The most sad are the tomatoes and basil. I could not get any direct seeds to go, so I just bought some starts at the local place. It did get me to a nursery that I like, but I would have preferred to direct start the seeds myself.

When my shed project is done I am putting in a Spyder grow tent for early starts of my own. We will see if that does the trick, but for now, this is what I have.

My nappa cabbage got consumed and is like two leaves total because the pest issue. I am not even sure what’s doing it. It’s not a bug I can see when I look, so it must be a night eater. No chives, but I had difficulties with those last time as well. I must be doing something wrong. My green onions are great though. They really are thriving.

You can see the potatoes are starting to grow out of the grow bags. I might add some extra soil and mound them to make sure we get a bunch of them come fall.

I have squares that are bare. My radishes did poorly, and an early heat patch caused them to bolt like woah! I never did get a beet to come up, and the turnips are weird and not doing anything but leaves when I check.

I ordered some more seeds from Epic Gardens for my summer planting. Although if you want fast, they are not it. I love the quality of their seeds, and the volume of info on the packaging. I ordered some zucchini summer squash, turnips, carrots, eggplant, and beets on 6/26/25, 6 days ago, and they do say 3-6 business days the shop out, but the 4th is this week, so we will see if it ships at all before next week. I was kind of anxious to get a move on, but we will see. My biggest gardening weakness is my lack of patience.

I still have lot’s of soil from spring, and the gravel to make my other two beds work better. I will probably make that work in winter when I have more time. The shed projects are taking up all my available healthy days for work.

So whatever happened to my garden this year, I am still undeterred. I will continue to try and research to see if I can find a solution.