When do you give up on your vegetable garden?
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Is there a point in the growing season when you basically give up on your vegetable garden?
I've about hit that point. The cabbage is diseased, the weeds are taking over, the broccoli's shot, the beans got rusty, and the squash vine borers have found my squash (plus powdery mildew is setting in).
In theory, we're about six weeks from the first frost. Not enough time for another crop of anything except maybe lettuce or turnips.
I'm about ready to start yanking up everything that's not performing.
On the upside: the tomatoes are coming in, the onions are ready to pull, the peppers are doing well, and the second crop of raspberries is starting to ripen.
I have one eggplant coming, too; this is my first attempt at eggplant. (Do you think six weeks more is long enough to get it to grow full-size?)
I've about hit that point. The cabbage is diseased, the weeds are taking over, the broccoli's shot, the beans got rusty, and the squash vine borers have found my squash (plus powdery mildew is setting in).
In theory, we're about six weeks from the first frost. Not enough time for another crop of anything except maybe lettuce or turnips.
I'm about ready to start yanking up everything that's not performing.
On the upside: the tomatoes are coming in, the onions are ready to pull, the peppers are doing well, and the second crop of raspberries is starting to ripen.
I have one eggplant coming, too; this is my first attempt at eggplant. (Do you think six weeks more is long enough to get it to grow full-size?)
#6
Originally Posted by Up North
I gave up when the deer ate all the beans, peppers, and cabbages!
#7
I, too, don't have a garden. Some potatoes tossed out in the compost are producing though!!! Go figure...if I'd planted them the frost or deer would've gotten them!!!! LOL We're putting in a greenhouse next summer and will do hydroponics.....we'll see how well THAT works!!!
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