Garden is in overdrive

Except for onions and peppers. With the abundance of rain and now heat, things are lookin really good except for the fore mentioned plants. I have spoken to several gardeners and all have said their onions are terrible. Peppers had blooms when purchased from greenhouses and fruit and plants are small and spindly. One guy I talked to said he cut off all the blooms and fruit and his plants have now taken off. The rest of our garden looks great, as do the flower gardens. That is my best friend for 52 years and wifey for 49 out standing in the garden.
Loren

Our onions are the biggest we have ever seen here in NW Iowa. Go figure! Marilyn and the grandkids have been picking peas and they are huge. The spuds are looking the best ever on top but I don't know what is going on underground. The lettuce got away from us and went to seed so I tilled it under last eve. All I can attribute it to is plenty of chicken poop and rainfall along with perfect growing temps. Now the squash, well, let's not talk about the squash, LOL

Nice garden. Looks like you don't have a water shortage, like we do here in California.I see Dill weed in one of the pictures. Do you make pickles? stan

Looks like the garden from Gilligan's Island when they found the radioactive seeds.

Yes it is dill, and we make pickels.
Loren

Do I see kale growing ?Great looking garden!!!Our tomatoes have some kind of blight ,the bottom branches are dying

Our peas were good, but with all the rain and heavy clay, the have wilted and most vines are yellow and dying.
Other stuff is good, at least what the snails haven't eaten...

Corn and broccoli look fantastic! Timely planting sure makes a difference, so does ones soils. Mine never got in until sometime just before the summer solstice, but I've been working the small patch starting last fall with the addition of some nice compost I made over the years. This spring I tilled in 2 green manure crops, one a carpet of pigweed that reminded me of alfalfa the way it looked and the last a mix of whatever came up. Planted, then mulched with a thick layer of dried like hay grasses from the (unsprayed)lawns, tomatoes took right off, broccoli doing well, and the rest will be good. I've been eating greens from the lettuce patch for 2 weeks now, also have space to replant new greens when the older plantings get too mature. I'll bet you'll do well again this year.

Bell peppers and egg plant, both with about the same soil requirements, conditions, seem difficult to get to grow like the rest of the plants in my garden, though I've had some great bell pepper harvests, its always right at the end. I have photos of picking yellow and red bell peppers with a coating of wet snow in mid October(which insulated the plants and they still kept going). I've dealt with the soil and nutrients too. Bell peppers just don't seem to grow as fast, but eventually can fill out into nice little trees with thick stalks, just too late, but if you had more growing time they would produce a bumper crop. I think I'll transplant a few of the best ones of this year and start new ones early for next season. I know one guy who plants in December for next seasons garden, he says it works quite well for him.