How is your garden growing?

[bakerhillpins]

Dang... if this hasn't been the year for us with respect to certain veggies. Our tomatoes are huge and producing wonderfully delicious big meaty fruit. The cucumbers are going gang busters, wonderful lettuce and spinach, tons of blueberries, basil, and for the first time since we moved here (14yrs) I finally got a head of broccoli that is huge. Its like 8" across.    The deer even got into the garden and just about devastated the broccoli plants when we first planted. (3 yrs running, can't figure out how they got in this year)  

One of our favorite things at this time of year (besides the fresh salad) is making brueschetta with garden fresh tomatoes and basil. We pickup fresh mozzarella too.  

Oddly though our corn is horrible this year.  

So what about the rest of you? Is your garden producing for you this year?

[Bob T]

Nothing like homegrown vegies BHP, good effort 
Had cuc's, red & yellow capscicum ( bell peppers), corn, beetroot, green beans and butter beans, 3 types of tomato for turning into special tomato sauce. We do companion planting with basil , fennel and marigolds to keep ot the bad bugs and bring in the good ones, dont use any sprays.
Also had huge Sunflowers again 

[Dans 68]

Not really producing. The wife and I always plant tomatoes, but they are only now ripening due to the "temperate" summer; it has not really been hot except for the last week or so.

Bruschetta sounds great.    A favorite recipe includes freshly chopped-up tomatoes, crumbled feta cheese and Italian dressing. A great side dish.

Dan

[FC7 V code]

We have had really good luck with our garden for the most part here in Upper Michigan. The corn is over 7 feet tall and we have been eating ripe tomatoes since about mid July. All the stuff we normally plant has done well(Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, Squash, Beans, Lettuce, Peppers). The only plant that hasn't done very well has been cucumbers, had a problem with some different type of bug that shredded the leafs on our cucumber plants early and also some deer trouble . We have had to water it way more often than normal and I have noticed the wild berry crop around the area ranges from poor to nonexistent. Lots of upended tree stumps and rotting logs out in the normal berry areas, Mr Bear is apparently not having much luck with finding wild berries either