My lettuce and spinach flourished until the pigs got out of their pasture, I may have left the fence turned off, and they ate all the lettuce and spinach. And that brings me to the tomatoes. If there is one particular item I look forward to and enjoy the most from my garden that would be my prized tomatoes. Well, this year my prized tomatoes are in horrible condition. The plants are dying from the bottom up, the fruit are rotting before they ripen. I am not going to get one single ripe tomato from my garden this year. I am very disappointed and discouraged. I've done some research and the best thing I can come up with is Fusarium Crown Rot. I try to rotate my crops but my garden is so small I don't have a ton of room to move things around. The plants are not in the exact area I planted last year but perhaps with tilling the soil it moved it around enough to cause problems. I had the pigs working on an extension for my garden, they didn't quite get it all turned over before I had to fence them out and plant the garden. Once my garden is finished growing this year I will release the pigs to turn it over again. I've had a horrible problem with grass this year as well. I originally blamed the grass for the tomato plants dying from the bottom but it's spreading right to the top, slowly but surely the plants are dying.
As you can see they grew tall and were healthy but something horrible has taken over and it's not good.
On a positive note we have a lovely sunflower growing in the garden......
I also had a nice harvest of garlic this year. So it's not a total loss but the tomatoes are a big disappointment. I am considering skipping a veggie garden next year and leave the soil rest. Or move the garden but that's more time to invest that we really don't have. I have all winter to figure out what I'm going to do.
