It's been a pretty good year in Williamsburg:
Garlic - matured & harvested before the unusual "rainy season" started, thank God
Squash - rolling in in by the bucket loads - just starting to see some disease (I did not use the bleach spray like I normally do).
Tomatoes - I grow most of them as grafted, trellised single stems on hugelculture raised beds (tiring to type - but even more tiring to dig!) These weathered the mini monsoons and mini draught really well. Less disease than last year. Better than average harvest.
Eggplants - a lot like the tomatoes - good harvest and great taste
Peppers - I just grew two varieties - cheese and elephant ears. Both did and are doing great.
The only thing that was a HUGE failure were ungrafted tomatoes planted where I usually grow tomatoes. Almost 100% died from bacterial wilt. I was surprised that even my hybrids couldn't handle it. (Just about all my ungrafted tomatoes survived on the virgin land I prepped this year.)
Jeff
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