Tim, where are you located? I'm in Northern New Jersey. We have seen a lot of rain this year. Pepper plants are doing very well but tomatoes, melons, squash and cucumbers all have bacterial spot badly. I have removed all the cucumber, melon and squash plants with no harvest for this year. Tomatoes are producing well but they look very bad with all the bacterial spot.
But like you said, the pepper plants seem to love this. Although it may be b/c I have used a better more well drained soil mix for them.
-Eric-

I'm also on the East Coast. I'm in North Carolina.

Tim

Possible. we had an extremely wet June. I did not water for over a month and I am using 5-1-1. July has been just the opposite and I have been watering since then at least twice a week and usually every two days. Our heat has been slightly below normal although we have had a lot of sun since early July. My plants struggled early this year both before and for a while after getting them outside. But they took off and are doing great now. Going back through my grow blog, it seems they turned around after the rain let up and they dried out. I figured I would have been in trouble during June had I not had them in a fast draining 5-1-1. I think plants, especially more mature plants are pretty tolerant to overwatering. It is the seedlings and immature plants that seem to be most susceptible. But I do think that sun, 80 degrees and light winds is the best with a more sparing water schedule.
Bruce

Not a good year in for my tomato's and peppers in the garden for me. Lost a good 50 plants this year. My Earth Box's did well but planted a lot later than usual due to raining and cold nights.

Sorry to hear that Lex. 50 plants is a big loss.

Tim

The plants are looking great now finally, moderate rain and temps do work their miracles. But as most other posters in this thread, i am behind this year a good 2-4 weeks, and will essentially be missing one crop because of it.

2011, 2012, 2013 were tougher gardening years, with 2012 being the least of the three, especially for those in Northern and Eastern parts of north america. But I do realize that the deep south and southwest have had their climate issues to deal with as well.

I'll just deal with it by putting my pickling and vacuum sealing + freezing into overdrive at the end of the season.

Wishing everyone luck with the rest of their season,

Steve

This post was edited by sjetski on Sun, Aug 11, 13 at 12:36