Just thinking out loud here, but I know around here (where we know a thing or two about heat!), things like cukes, zucchini and tomatoes don’t do very well with producing veggies when it’s very hot. I bet that excessive heat you had earlier this summer did them in.
Kinda like in the spring, where the ground temp has to be so warm or the seed just sits and rots.
“....things like cukes, zucchini and tomatoes don’t do very well with producing veggies when it’s very hot.”
That very well could be but we do have pretty hot weather every summer but just not this long of time.
I am thinking even though I had SOME bees (not like in the past) on my Lavender, I never saw any around my tomato flowers etc to pollenate them. But do they have to be pollenated that I don’t know and I am to tired to look it up now. :-)
Bye the way I like the info you looked up on “Pipe down”