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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

All my tomato plants were eaten by deer. I tried to use spicy pepper plants as armor for the tomatos, but the deer even ate those back to get to the tomatos. Luckily, the peppers survived the original "pruning" and filled in the space that would have been occupied by tomatos, so I got huge amounts of peppers, now either fermenting or drying.

I grew tomatillos for the first time, and I didn't really get the hang of growing them. I got huge plants with not much fruit. I think maybe it was a watering issue cause I was out of town when there were a lot of flowers, and i think they dried out too much and aborted the fruit.

I always get lots of chard and kale.

I've never gotten cilantro to grow well cause it gets too hot too quick. Most other herbs do really well.

Kentucky wonder pole beans did really well, as did dragons tongue bush beans. Scarlet emperor pole beans grew really well, and put out a lot of flowers for hummingbirds, but didn't produce much.

Mustard greens always do well for me.

Lettuce, I usually don't get much, but I apparently nailed the timing this year, and i got a bumper crop.

Im going to make an effort to actually plant some garlic this fall, cause at least that should resist the deer.