Re: $500 a plate spaghetti sauce

In article <ztCdnQdnPcdP6CnVnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx says...
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year was
my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants died, those
that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple of quarts of
sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the remaining tomatoes
are going to ripen because the plants think it's fall (the leaves on my
blueberry bushes have already turned color). My corn isn't maturing
either, I've got small ears with missing kernels. The peas and beans all
died in July. July was solid torrential rain, and August has been cold
which is why the plants think it's fall.

I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had
better results than these?


London Ontario.

We're not as bad off here, but I'm building several knockdown greehouses
and one permanent one that will depend on heat pumped from the basement.

I don't want us to get caught again (ever) the way we did this year.

We've had a wet season up until the past couple of weeks and what with
the cold, grey mostly sunless spring, everything that we started was
slow to grow, everything that survived was set back at least 3 weeks and
probably longer.

We've started a fall garden of cabbages, kales, broccoli, daikon etc. to
rescue the season.

It looks like we'll get a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes, but unless the
fall is warm or I can extend the season for the larger tomatoes, we're
unlikely to get much from them. And there's a lot of potential there if
they'd just get on with ripening.

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