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.
I still look out the back window and love what I see. I am so impressed with what you do there.
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Your garden may be having a rough year, but it sounds like you’re learning a lot from it. The mystery pest damage and yellowing leaves would be especially frustrating, but I like your approach of continuing to experiment rather than giving up. The early heat causing the radishes to bolt is something many gardeners can relate to as well. I’m also curious to see how the grow tent works for your early seed starts next season. Hopefully the summer planting gives you a much better harvest!
I’ve also been enjoying gardening resources at Green Glow Garden.
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Thank you! I appreciate it.
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