August 5, 2012 Harvest and Crop #fail

Today I got a bunch of partially ripe cherry tomatoes! But not everything was good. I noticed yesterday that one of my zucchini plants, the one that just produced a zucchini last week, had dried up. When it was the same today I looked closer and noticed the stem looked torn, as I tried to straighten the large plant the stem broke!! As I looked closely I noticed some grub like pests inside the stem eating away! Another crop fail but on the bright side it gives other plants, especially my garden beans some more space and sunshine!

Today's harvest:
11 cherry tomatoes (partially ripe)
1 Juliet tomato (partially ripe)

Failed Crops so far

So far I've had pretty good luck with my garden except for a few problems with the corn, cabbage and broccoli. Something (I suspect it's a squirrel) is climbing into the garden and knowing at the stalks of corn causing them to fall over. On top of that the new corn seeds I planted right before the 4th of July have been eaten by birds. So this week I decided to plant more garden beans in that area of the garden.

Another area where I'm having a problem is with the cabbage and broccoli, which were both growing well but leaves have been eaten by what I'm assuming to be cabbage worm. The plants have gotten so bad that today July 9th I pulled out all my broccoli plants and will hopefully replace that area with some more cucumber plants. As disappointing as it is to get really great harvests you need to know what works and what doesn't to be able to take full advantage of your garden space! So failure does have its purpose!

The photo below is the broccoli right before I pulled it out, notice all the leaves are eaten!