Part IV · Crop by crop
Every crop has its own story
Sixteen field pages carry the complete planting, feeding, watering, pest, harvest, yield, and next-year record.
The 2026 crop ledger
Choose a crop record
Read each vegetable independently, then follow the next-record link to move through the full garden in sequence.
Tomatoes
Flowering & sizingMain tomatoes stayed vigorous through August 22 with increasing visible fruit set; volunteer cherry tomatoes supplied another harvest while many green clusters and flowers remained.
Open crop record →02◒Cucumbers
Renewed vine growthCucumbers became one of the garden’s most regular harvests, then shifted toward renewed production as established new growth held four to five small cucumbers by August 21.
Open crop record →03⌁Green beans
Third flush + first successionThe first row became the 2026 garden champion with a first-ever third flush; part was harvested August 21 while the first intentional succession continued flowering and podding.
Open crop record →04✣Zucchini
Two confirmed · one likelyAfter two questionable fruit aborted August 21, two different zucchini were confirmed successfully pollinated August 22 and a likely third continued developing.
Open crop record →05◐Summer squash
Three fruit confirmedThree squash were confirmed successfully pollinated by August 21–22 while younger female fruit and abundant male flowers continued on vigorous vines.
Open crop record →06↑Okra
Frequent young podsA slow warm-season start gave way to tender pods harvested every few days through mid-August.
Open crop record →07⌇Banana peppers
HarvestingThe first peppers of the year arrived July 2 and continued into mixed harvest baskets through the month.
Open crop record →08◇Baby bell peppers
Compact harvestsThe compact bell variety continued setting fruit and supplied two baby bells in the August 14 harvest.
Open crop record →09♧Broccoli
One fall plant survives browsingSeven fall broccoli transplants established with strong center growth through August 22, but animal browsing reduced the planting to one survivor by September 2.
Open crop record →10✤Cauliflower
Unchanged · lesson cropCauliflower remained visibly unchanged through August 20 and became the season's most frustrating crop—an honest lesson in pest pressure, timing, and unmet expectations.
Open crop record →11∨Carrots
Harvest ready · soil wetA physical tunnel protected new top growth, and an August 17 test pull produced a large healthy-looking carrot.
Open crop record →12◉Onions
Harvested & curingOnions were harvested gradually as their tops fell, ending with the last standing bulb in late July and a basement curing period.
Open crop record →13↟Garlic
Harvested · small bulbsGarlic was harvested August 17; early-spring planting produced small bulbs that mostly did not divide into cloves.
Open crop record →14○Potatoes
Harvested & curingPotatoes moved through hilling, aphid treatment, soap-damaged tops, harvest, and curing—an unusually complete problem-to-pantry arc.
Open crop record →15≈Lettuce
All five rows germinatedAfter the spring crop finished, all five direct-sown fall lettuce rows germinated by August 22 in the compost-amended, straw-covered bed.
Open crop record →16≋Spinach
All three rows germinatedSpring spinach supplied greens and a seed-saving lesson; all three new fall rows germinated by August 22 after emerging a day behind lettuce.
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