I live in deep SE Texas and get 2 gardens a year where I am.
I’ve had trouble with B sprouts myself. Got a good crop last fall but other times stem but no sprouts.
Need lots of organics and nitrogen but not too much nitrogen.
Unless I get my carrots in real early (February) for a spring garden it gets too hot too fast here and carrots are whitish color and taste like a paper sack.
Fall carrots are great.
I’ve put a little over 5 quarts of green peas in the freezer so far and more are on the way.
I’ve got enough squash to feed the starving Armenians.
Corn’s around 4 feet right now. Hope we keep getting rain I have 2 gardens and don’t have a way to water my second garden where it’s planted.
Pintos and black beans are loaded. Surprised myself with that.
My red and white onions have also surprised me.
I’ve got a 5ft chicken snake and an almost 6ft king snake hanging around my main garden in back of the house. Maybe they’ll put the fear in the squirrels and keep them out of my tomatoes.
Everything has done good so far except my green onions.
After my second planting and still nothing I quit.
Sounds a lot like me. I started my corn late That’s because I like to start my own and then replant, but for some reason none of them came up, so I ended up waiting till it warmed enough to start them in the ground.
We have King snakes around here that will help keep the gopher and other rodent population down, along with rattlers, but it’s never enough. I still need to use protected boxes and fencing.
Two years ago the dear kept stopping by my garden at night on their way to the creek and wiped my tomato crop out, along with my cucs and bell peppers. No matter what I tried I could not stop them. Starting last year I began putting my fence up and it helped, but the problem still remains that if they want them they can jump 10 feet to get into them.
This year I am tempted to set up a dear stand and poach some venison for the freezer. I already have an abundance of wild turkey that live around here. There is a family of about 60, but come fall you can here the neighbors shooting them for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. So far we haven’t because my wife won’t let me.
If I can find them, I’ll post a pic of the turkeys. It;s quite an eye opener to see.