Healthy Vegetable Plants Not Producing?!

[Dan, Judi, & Timbow]

Ok DK Gardeners, I need your help. Dan and I have a decent size garden with tomatoes, eggplant, green beans, lima beans, corn, zucchini, squash, pumpkins, and peppers. All of our plants look wonderful! Large, green,flowering, and healthy. Problem is, this time last year we had veggies coming out of our ears. This year, we have nothing. All we have so far are a few squash, 2 green beans(ha!), and 1 tomato. Any ideas on what we can do to help them produce more? 

[F, Calla & Luca]

I'm not a big vegetable gardener and I'm up in NJ. But if your plants are "Large, green,flowering, and healthy", I think you just need to be patient. It s early for us here. Maybe the weather last year was different than this year? If they weren't flowering I'd be a little concerned but it seems like the vegs are doing their thing. You can't rush mother nature.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Wow. We never have produce until mid July. Last year was LUCK for you??? I am sure the harvest is about the same as it is here in Ohio.

We get all ours at once. This year we planted a row a week hoping that harvesting the crops would space a few weeks and we did not have veggie overload one week and nothing the next.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Oh duh... you are in GA. Your planting is weeks before Ohio. Hey, just get some bees and butterflies attracted to your plants for pollination?

I plant flowers in my garden to attract humming birds, bees and butterflies. I love the look but it also helps to have them flying among your blossoms.

I used to take a feather to cross pollinate~~ don't bother.

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

Judi, what type of fertilizer did you use? If it is higher in nitrogen you will get lots of green growth and no fruit setting.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

We do not fertilize. We do mulch and then till in into the soil each spring.

We have also used old coffee grounds and egg shells or other kitchen refuse to mix into the soil.

Ask F. Parker about nitrogen rich natural fertilizers. We do the Poor Man's Garden and have not purchased anything at the store as additives, although used to purchase Fish Meal

Oh and get this...... YUCK. Back in the early 80's I worked in a hospital lab. We used to take the serum from the Chemistry Labs and bring it home to pour into the houseplants. That, I'm sure, would be illegal today. PAIDS~~plants with aids~

[F, Calla & Luca]

Funny, I was just thinking the other day, that back in the really olden days, even before my time, some of the attending doctors in the hospital told stories of when they buried placentas next to roses, I think it was, to get fabulous flowers. At least it was outside. Definitely illegal nowadays.

[Dan, Judi, & Timbow]

ooh, I don't know. I will check though. We don't fertilize too much, since we compost and use that as a fertilizer. The little bit of fertilizer we used could be the problem though.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think, but not sure, that if this was the problem you wouldn't have flowers.I use a little 5-10-5 as a general fertilizer for vegetables and such. My tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers have lots of flowers and the tomatoes are forming. I'm getting some leaf curl on the tomatoes. It's hard to keep up with the watering since they're in pots, it's been very hot and we've had very little rain.