Report this year vs last year same date
All photos 18 July 2018
Tomatoes
o - healthier, but behind last year in flower/fruit production and maturity - by about 1 to 2 weeks
o - 26 plants , 1 manitoba, 3 stupice, 3 sugary hybrid, 7 tumblers the remaining are sweet millions.
Peppers
o - 1st year I've grown and I'm satisfied. A mix of mild/hot jalepinos, bananas and bell.
Zucchini and eggplant
o - 1st year I've grown. The yellow is producing, and the black beauty hasn't yet - the eggplant has started to produce.
Potatoes
o - red norlands, never flowered, yellowing and not mature height - my neighbor has the same issue and we both purchased from Canadian Tire. It's not soil since we handled soil differently. We believe it was the seed potatoes.
Predation
o - I've got a magpie who loves ripening tomatoes. I don't mind sharing when I have abundance. But at the moment I hate that SOB.
o - ant and aphid population down from last year - oddly insects are not a big issue.