Hey Northeasterners you runnin' behind a couple weeks?

[Nematode]

Originally Posted by bower

Well the stats are just in - we had the coldest July on record, average daily high 60.4 F, and in the whole month we had a total of 23 HOURS above 68 F. Talk about running behind..

Wow thats bad.

In my mind I hear you say it but without any h sounds.


All in good fun...

[bower]

That's alright, Nematode. I tried it bot' ways and I found the haitches didn't make it any warmer. Still there's 'ope for Haugust.

[JRinPA]

I'm an hour NW of Philadelphia so not as far NE as the rest here. So far I have picked about 5-6 from each big beef/estiva plant that went in about May 15. They started a good 10 days back. We have been eating homemade sourdough BLTs since. Three brandywines total have been picked from the three brandywine plants put in at the same time.

I think they are about on time here. I have pizza sauce bags marked end of July last year and we are about ready to make some now so to me that is on time.

May 26th I planted cherry tomatoes and a couple more estivas at different spots, and the cherries started ripening probably 2 weeks back.

May 27th we planted out 36 tomato plants at a friend's house, mostly estivaf1, and I have been florida weaving it. Those plants are about 5 ft on July30th and blushing fruit on their initial trusses. She likes to pick them RED. They did not get much water early on but are pretty healthy. That florida weave is pretty neat for that garden - an hour every 10 days and that is about all that was done to it. I probably spend 5 hours a week fussing over my cages. I probably have 4x the fruit though in my garden cages.


Butternut transplanted june 1, 6 plants on a trellis, 20 large and healthy butternuts and a few more on the way. Most female flowers in the last month have yellowed immediately and some after flowering but a few have made it.

Peppers transplated June 5...not sure what to expect from them, there are some peppers I guess. We grew some from seed and bought a habanero (decent output, some turning orange) and a jalapeno (disappointing).

Eggplant Jun 5 transplant, store bought, 3 of the 4 plants have one large fruit, all have 2 or 3 more about chicken egg size at the next level.

Zucchini has seemed very slow, Jun 5 seeds sown in hills, and have only harvested a couple from 4 hills. They are shaded by the butternut trellis for the first time this year so that may be it.

[Mashman]

Late here too. The bees appear MIA as well. I'm use to seeing armies of bumble bees to help with fruit set.... only a few here and there. I saw a couple this morning and told them to get the word out and bring back a few friends.

[garlic-luv]

I took a chance and planted may 15,had one scary morning we had a light frost but my plants survived,my sungolds are ripening now and some of my bigger ones.

[CJsDad]

It varies for me by plant this year. Small garden, I only have 4 tomato plants (but they're all big).

My cherry tomato (Jasper) has been rocking since early, but I guess that's pretty typical for cherries.

The German Queen next to it has 3 medium tomatoes and 1 starter

Next to that is my Aunt Ruby's German Green and it has 10 tomatoes and 2 of those are whoppers (but, that's my first sick plant - some sort of wilt going on)

And next to that is a huge plant I thought was never going to produce anything (Zapotec Pink Pleated) but it now has 3 starters.

Actually the wilt and the delays kind of spooked me for heirlooms so I preemptively got a couple hybrid seeds for next year already. But now I'm hoping they'll recover and knock my socks off.