Swampiness? Grow Wasabi and make a fortune.

2 Rows = 20 plants, 4 egg plants, 16 maters. One row of La. purple pod beans. Deer have been in beans & maters already. I let the row on right lay by. The iron frame work on far right is, was a retaining wall. Made with rebar and belting from sawmill. When I get some help or able will move it to about center of unused row and let grass have that space.

I like your setup, buster. That's a serious garden. The soaker hose under the black plastic is sweet. Do you find you have to weed much with that black plastic around the tomatoes? Also, how much do you water? How often and for how long? Is it hard to judge what the water needs are when you can't see the soil under the plastic? Do you just look at the plants to see if they are getting a little wilted and need some water?

The deer must be a huge pain. We only have rabbits to deal with here. They have destroyed my two blueberry bushes.

Glatt. Maybe TMI. My garden was planted way late this year. It's hard to find the right kind of plastic for home use. Most places sell landscape fabric, at around 12 bucks a 50' roll, which should be used under bark, ETC. The fabric sucks for what I want. UV eats it up. I water when I think it needs water.
I'm on city water and more you use, sewer bill goes up. Yeah go figure.
When my plants needed caging, I had my eye worked on. No bending over. So that was late and the sucker weren't picked off.
Dry as a bone here, temps around 95 and heat index 104 & 105. Boy I love a garden!!!!

I can see you're serious about the deer problem - that razor wire should keep them out!

Nice buster!

I see you have a hoot owl in your garden. We have on hanging here someone put up. It didn't stop the barn swallows from building a nest inside the landing. Maybe they only scare crows.

We've been enjoying the first peas of the season :yum:

We put up several plants for the first time this year, and while it's nothing compared to the huge raised beds most of you guys have, we're pretty pleased with ourselves. Two big pots of tomatoes, two big pots of bell peppers, and three watermelon plants in the ground.

The tomato plants are being a little weird: they're growing huge and tall, clearly thriving, but not budding much fruit at all. We're hoping for an explosion of tiny green balls to show up any day now.

The watermelons may be a complete failure: one is not growing at all (but not dying either,) one we accidentally planted right under the roof's edge so it gets pummeled every time it rains, and the third is actually growing but only slowly.

The bell peppers are rocking. The biggest one is already about 3 inches long, and there are probably 15 more in various smaller sizes. I don't like green bell peppers, so they're going to stay on the vine as long as it takes to turn red.

My maters and sorry fabric, it's less that 2 months old.
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Hey Buster, we've got 4 tomato plants that have been growing nice and tall for over a month now, lots of leaves and seem to be thriving--but they're not producing a single actual tomato. Does this maybe mean not enough sun, not enough water, or something else...? Any suggestions?

Did you get any flowers?

Nope, just lots and lots of leaves right now.

Have you considered the possibility that your tomatoes hate you?

(Age 12)

Michael: So I hate Dave now.
Michael's mom: Oh now, Michael, don't say you hate. It's so rude.
Michael: OK, I just don't like him, a whole lot.