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Beekissed
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Many are reporting the same thing, so it's not you. Two of my siblings had lush and beautiful squash, full of blooms...but no squash. I had 6 yellow squash plants and got maybe 3-4 off each plant before they died from either wilt or vine borers. I have a few other types of squash in the garden right now...lush growth, all kinds of bloom, no fruit.
All across the state I've seen tomato plants that are lush and green, tall and strong...little to no fruit, and no fruit that ripens. I had to prune mine back severely to get it to put on bloom and actually produce some tomatoes, but they still aren't as big nor as many as previous years.
My lovely rhubarb? Bigger than I've ever seen? All but one looks dead or has died. Too wet, too much fungal growth. The asparagus seem to like it but who knows what is going on at the root level?
Peppers were a bust...all got fungus, no bloom, no fruit. Corn had spotty pollination, the ears were scrawny and uneven, very few ears per plant, though this corn got some good levels of nitrogen and plenty of moisture.
Spuds did okay but not as well as they should have for the space planted.
Broccoli was lovely, huge and starting to head out one day...a few days later it looked like green lace from the millions of tiny, tiny caterpillars.
Bad year, is all. You are right...if you can't even grow zucchini, which is about the easiest thing to grow in the world, then it's a bad garden year.
I didn't have a single cuke this year..all vines died, those that lived awhile didn't get a single cuke on them. Squash bugs and beetles were at a minimum, so can't blame it on them.
Zinnias and sunflowers look great, though.
