Reply #11: not the best gardening year for me, but pretty good all in all

[NEOhiodemocrat]

My potatoes are doing terrific, so great I put a late crop in just to see some ground covered. Tomatoes are getting pretty nice crop but green peppers, all four kinds, are mostly plant and few peppers. My butternut squash is pretty productive as is the zucchini (big surprise, right?). Cucumbers and cantaloupe died out. Have two kinds of decorative gourds taking over too much space. Cabbage heads seem small, and six plants I got from my husband's cousin are unidentified plants, suppose to be flat dutch cabbage, but definitely not. Where I planted pumpkin is all vine, no fruit, but we have a volunteer in the upper garden that has the biggest pumpkins that I have ever grown. Onions seem to look healthy. We have had a banner year of blueberries, yellow plums, and red and yellow raspberries. Small crop of black raspberries, but the vines are fairly new. Also had four prune plums on new tree! Peaches are not going to make it, brown rot is winning. They get almost ripe and then start to rot and fall off the tree. nectarines are all brown rot, guess we are cutting those two trees out this fall. Oh, concord grapes are amazing, I have been making juice the last couple of weeks. Green grapes just coming in now, pretty small crop of them. I never even got my corn in this summer as the lower garden was a marsh, I think I could have grown rice there. Guess overall we are getting pretty much out of the garden, even though I didn't get it all planted due to the wet spring here.