[MtnClimber]

I did not get a single tomato this year. In early October the weather man got it wrong. Forcast was for a low in mid 30’s, but it got down to 28F. Froze everything.

[tdscpa]

I did not get any beefsteak tomatoes. Was way too hot after the summer started. A few set on very early, but split and rotted when it got hot, then I had very high temperatures all summer and no more beefsteaks set.

Some smaller round tomatoes and cherries produced a few. With the small round tomatoes, I had enough for BLT’s, but not enough to supply the neighborhood as I usually do.

Had a nasty hail storm in the middle of August that destroyed almost all the tomato and pepper fruit, and cucumber, pumpkin, and melon vines. Left a lot of muskmelons out there that rotted in the sun in late August without any shade from the leaves.

Peppers set on more fruit that eventually ripened and made a good harvest, and I got a few more cucumbers, but melons did not produce. Pumpkins are iffy. Vines froze and died. Took them inside my shop, and they are turning orange. Not sure they are going to make my pie pumpkin. Will have to bake and puree them next week.

Worst year yet.