Veggies / garden done early??

[fishryc]

Holy Shart!! I'm already winding down!!
 I've got a small garden. All of it is above ground and grown in 25 to 40 gallon tubs filled with my own special soil free mix: 60% peat, 20% vermiculite, and 20% pearlite. (Then fed with Miracle Gro every other week). Great medium, however requires daily saturating with water.
  I've got 19 of these "pots",  all totaled, and growing swiss chard, okra, table tomato's, bush cukes, grape tomatoes, yellow summer squash, zucchini, eggplant, red bell peppers, basil, and yellow hot banana peppers.
 Anyhoo...........  I just pulled (disposed of the finished producers) five pots: (2 green and 2 yellow squash pots + the cukes).  This seemed especially early this year!!??
 Additionally, I just picked 11 mature eggplant from my 2 plants.
 Well, my two shelves in the refridgerator full of produce will not accommodate this bounty!!
  In Western New York, so far this summer, it has been scorching hot and sunny. Combine this with daily watering and frequent fertilizing, and you'll get TOO MUCH!!

 Just wanted to hear what you other backyard farmers have been experiencing around the country??

S

[pikemaster789]

My cucumbers always are done by this time of year. The prduce like crazy june and july and really slow down in august. The plants look weak the lower leaves die. There is very little growth and the fruit start to get deformed. I just pulled my cucumbers out today. I still have time to plant bush beans and get a good yield before frost.

[scansy]

Here in SE Pennsyltucky, we had a bunch of beans early and will be planting more in the next week or two.  Asparagus was so-so in the spring.  Lots of strawberries in early June and lots of blackberries right now.  We also froze a ton of wild wineberries.  Potatoes are just coming around nice.  We've been eating them small, but they are medium now.  Peppers (hot and sweet) suck this year.  Tomatoes are so-so.  We had good brocoli and cauliflower earlier this year and I started more last week for a fall harvest.  And we will have escarole into the fall and sometimes as late as Christmas.

Here is a picture from summer of '05.

[Fishingking]

mmm veggies they all look picture perfect

[AD]

The garden here in Va has been producing some stuff for over a month and the tomatoes are just coming on.   

    We got some swiss chard and lettuce earlier on that has still been producing some.     
     The onions have been ready for quite some time now.   
       The green beans are ready for a first picking.   
        Have got about 10 zucchini's so far.     
        The tomato plants look like they are in for a good crop this year, the cherries have just started to ripen and the regular tomatoes wont be too far behind.     
       The only thing that didn't produce too well were the beats.     

       It looks like it'll be a good summer, although we here have been able to water it a bit More then maybe some people have, plus it seems fish manure grows good veggies.    Ill see if I cant grab a picture or two.