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Tomatoes did fairly well, corn did not do well (no harvest so far, only one surviving plant), I got one very delicious cucumber after having to germinate 2 entire packets of seeds to get one fucking plant, beets did alright, the one onion I had left did fairly well, the romaine lettuce did so well I planted some more for fall, was way too hot for broccoli and the heads were all sparse and tasteless, zucchini did OK not great.
I feel like I could have stepped each plant up one tier at least if I actually had full sun, unfortunately full sun only exists between late june and early september, so while the temperatures stay warm, the plants really just don't have enough sunlight to do their best unfortunately (leafy greens are an exception, they do better in part shade usually).
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[–] SerialChiller 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Zone 9B. All organic, no pesticides. Occasional spray of H2O2 for mildew. Mostly growing in a 50 ft long x 2 ft wide raised bed, intensive/square-foot method, with a fence/trellis along one edge. Plus pumpkins grown under a small cluster of fruit trees that are heavily mulched in pine wood-chips.
All this sounds like a shit ton of stuff, but it's fucking amazing how little it takes to plant this stuff. Most of it is waiting and keeping them watered.
For fall, I started Kales (lacinato, scotch, portugeuse, russian), broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, lettuces, spinach, amaranth, beets, radishes, and red cabbage. Everything started well but some faggot critter is eating my seedlings so I have lost a bunch of them already and have to start new seeds (or go buy some plant starts).
[–] 14158292? [S] ago
Out of curiosity, what do you believe is too hot for tomatoes? Mine do much better with daytime temperatures in the 90s than they do with daytime temperatures in the 70s to low 80s.
[–] SerialChiller ago (edited ago)
We had daytime temps in the 95-102 range in july and august, with no rain and hot nights. I am not an expert, but I have been told that tomato tend to not produce flowers when nighttime temps stay above 70. No flowers means no pollination and no fruit. And my observation seems to support that theory. When I lived for some time in the tropics, tomatoes used to do better in winters there, maybe for the same reason.
Temps started getting lower in late August and the flowers came back, and I now have a decent set of fruit happening - although it is a race to harvest them before squirrels/mice/birds take a bite out of them.