Eggplants did great again after a slow start (maybe too much water from doubled soaker hose?); some flea beetle damage but marigolds seemed to help again with small insect holes in fruits, great yield again.
Ground Cherries – very good, do again.
Peppers had a reasonably good year, plants generally strong and productive, leaf chewing was treated successfully with Neem oil, larger sweet peppers still needed to be picked green to avoid rot from insect holes, marigolds didn’t work to keep them away.
Tomatillos were unusually floppy, characteristically late to produce and had lots of small fruit at first frost, but not hit by striped potato beetles this year!
Tomatoes grew well on support structure updated with more secure stakes holding the strings, mulching around base of plants with garlic mulch worked great, pruning to double leaders on 6 plants worked great, and the drought caused predation problems in peak season; Seiger got wilt and failed in July, Bodacious had some large fruit but plant stopped producing early, plants in raised beds (Jaune Flamme, Plum Perfect) may have suffered from a soil nutritional deficiency.
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