I planted late due to a trip to Hawaii and everything is going crazy right now! Tomatoes are looking better than they have in a few years (we finally had a good amount of rain last year in No CA), peppers are going to be great, tomatillas are going gangbusters, as are green beans, zuk, yellow squash and basil!

Only my poor little eggplant never took off and I have to hit up the farmers market for those.

Our season will often go into November if we don't get a frost. Nancy

Peter, I have had similar results to yours in Michigan. Poor cucurbita, poor eggplants, excellent peppers (all the heat must have been good for something). Tomato losses high due to chipmunks. But my cabbages look good, all manner of roots have been doing well, radicchio is the best I have had, cardoon good, collard very good. Next year the eggplants go in containers like the peppers.

I had my first intro to flea beetles this year...boy are they destructive on eggplant! I used an organic product by Safer..forget what it was, and Diatomaceous earth...took a while but finally got them under control. Got my first eggplant 2 days ago! Better than nothing, I thought they were toast!

I also had cutworms wipe out an entire row of beans...every year I learn something new!

We had an extremely hot spring here in the PNW--where we normally have rain we had several weeks of upper 90's in May & June (at times going from a high of 98 to a high of 60 degrees within a few days). So, for us a fantastic beginning (I actually had my first Cherokee purple in June). Then, a cool rainy July (very unusual here) slowed everything down. Still optimistic though--everything looks healthy, even the seedlings for fall. Just feeling a little behind because I haven't had enough of anything to put up much for the winter and back to school is just around the corner, so I won't have much time then. Crazy weather makes it easy to feel the burnout!

Most of my garden (the rural plot) went in late due to frequent June rain... but with all of the added heat this year, it has made up some of the lost ground. Bad year for squash, though; while SVB was a no-show, cucumber beetles swarmed on my transplants, and killed most of them before they could get established. Only the Tromboncino survived, and while much later than usual, it has begun producing. Cucumbers also survived the attack, although they are not producing as heavily as they should be. Bitter melon is incredibly vigorous this year, it already looks like the "bitter melon wall" photo I posted quite a few years back. Yeah, I know, not a vegetable for everyone... but it sure is fun to grow. ;-)

Most of my pole beans were started as transplants, went in very late, and suffered stunting. They took a long time to recover (some more so than others), but most are now blooming & setting pods. Runner beans have just been dropping flowers due to the heat, but the cool spell expected tomorrow should give them a chance to set pods in larger numbers. Surprisingly, limas are not as vigorous as in years past... I would have expected them to do well in the heat. The yardlong beans, on the other hand, are rampant & producing furiously.

Okra!!! Wow!!! This year's standout success by a long shot. Not only did it all come up, but it has thrived in the heat, and has not yet begun to suffer from the wilt that usually has begun to cut production by now. More okra than I'm used to, since I moved back North from warmer climes. I'm picking an ice cream pail every two days, and will be giving a lot away, and freezing a lot for the winter. Almost getting sick of picking it, but that's a good problem to have. ;-)

Eggplant has been only so-so, but as others have mentioned, peppers are really thriving. I put in an extra large planting this year (100+) and the plants are healthy, bushy, and loaded... the phrase 'be careful what you wish for' comes to mind. Tomatoes are still showing the effects of their late planting (being considerably behind where they should be in development) but the set has been good. I was becoming concerned that all of the rain & high humidity might cause an outbreak of blight before anything could ripen... since some of those tomatoes are trades from people who no longer post here, I'll be holding my breath.

Very bad year for curcurbits this year in E. Tn. The cukes did okay, but the cuke beetles came in droves. I couldn't keep up trying to rid them from the garden. They got into the squash way too early. They brought bacterial wilt, and thus began the slow end to the cukes. Then came the squash bugs, and when they couldn't get under the row cover to the squash, they too hosted in the cukes. Took them until late July, but they too infested both the zukes, and the winter squash. I'm still under the threat of SVB, so my N. Georgia Candy Roasters are still under cover, but the squash bugs are wreaking havoc on them. Can't win for losing. I just hope they hold on long enough for the squash to mature enough to store. I took the covers off the zukes because the squash bugs hit them so hard that even when pollinated they weren't producing anything worth the effort of leaf inspection and egg crushing.

Tomatoes did very well this year. Most of the summer was dry and hot, but now it's raining every day and they'll soon be toast from disease.

Peppers are fine. They look good and although I didn't plant many this year, I think I'll be happy with what I get.

Beans, Garden of Eden, are doing well, but I ran low on seed, so this year's crop is mostly going to seed. I'm only harvesting the unfilled pods for the table.

Edamame did fantastic, I'll be devoting much more garden space to them next year.

Watermelons did okay, but of course, summer was dry until this week, time for harvest and the rain is diluting the sweetness.

Eggplant is going like gangbusters. I covered the main crop with row cover, and planted a trap row of sacrificial plants in an adjacent bed. Between the flea beetles starting on the potatoes, then going after the sacrificial row of eggplants, even with me squishing as many flea beetles I could see, as often as I could, the trap crop barely made 1' tall. They were squeezed into a bed of peppers and cucumbers where they never had a chance, but served their purpose well. The main eggplant crop is now almost 4' tall and pumping out more eggplants than I can use or give away. They were uncovered when large enough to withstand any attack. I did have to patrol them for a while, but it was worth it.

Basil, parsley, dill, and cilantro all did well, and I may soon replant a few cilantro from the seeds I saved.

Broccoli did okay, but I had trouble with the row cover, and the moths had a field day. Beets and Swiss chard did well, and I'll start juicing them now that they're getting 'long in the tooth'.

I didn't plan well for a fall garden spot. Every bed has something still growing in it, so I am trying to decide what to pull to put in peas, lettuce, and favas. I've got 8 beds now, and hopefully 2 more going in this coming spring, so I might start leaving at least one bed summer-fallow, or cover-cropped for a fall garden. I think it would be good both for soil health, and organization.

Terrible cucerbits year for me in zone 4. Even Zukes were bad

After a pretty good go, my cucumbers succumbed to a wilt of some kind - guessing bacterial wilt due to terrible cucumber beetle infestation a month ago. Those have all been ripped out. Zucchini has squash vine borer I think and is slowly dying, but still putting out some zukes. My peppers were awful, tomatoes are still going strong. Several of pumpkins turning orange. Green beans were great. Onions are bulbing now.

In my garden, there's always some things that excel and some things not so much for various reasons some due to the weather, some due to pests and disease, and most due to gardener error.

This year my earliest plantings of broccoli were great but the last planting did not have time to fully form heads before bolting when we hit the upper 80s in early June.

The tomatoes produced 2 distinct flushes and when I'm done picking I should have about 300 total fruit and about 130 lbs. off of 5 plants. The 4 big beef plants alone have provided 230 ripe fruit so far.

Pickling cukes did OK even though they were swarmed by squash bugs from the time they started to produce in early July. I put up enough pickles to last 2 years and then pulled the plants a couple weeks ago after nuking the squash bugs with Pyrethrin. Vertina from Johnny's is a winner and will be planted in my garden every year going forward.

My one strait neck yellow squash plant (Multipik from Johnny's) won the prize for best production of 2016. I planted it June 4 which is about a month later than normal because I had to wait for some romaine lettuce to finish up. I started harvesting on July 14 and picked 55 fruit! I just pulled the plant yesterday as it was just recently invested with powdery mildew and the latest fruit were not getting over 5 or 6 inches. I have a July 23 planted Zucchini (Elite) that just started to flower this past weekend so I should have plenty more summer squash soon.

All of my Alliums did very well except for the fall planted shallots which bolted severely and the bulbs were too small to be of use. Lettuce was abundant but bolted before I could use it all. Spring carrots were small but adequate. Potatoes did well with no pests or disease. Peppers are ripening like crazy now and I brought over a dozen to share at work today. Cantaloupe did OK but the coons and possums keep harvesting them before they are totally ripe. So far I have gotten 5 and they have gotten 4. There are only 2 left but they are protected like Fort Knox!!

My earliest planting of Provider beans did fantastic and my second bean planting of Maxibel did fine as well, but the last planting of Contender did not like the 90+ degree heat they had to endure from the start and the pod quality suffered and the Mexican bean beetles and Japanese Beetles showed up and finished them off quickly.

Asparagus beetles have been a battle all summer but I think I have them somewhat under control now. My 2016 planting of Purple Passion and Pacific Purple are doing well and I should be able to harvest a few meals from them next spring.

My fall garden has all been planted now:

1 Zucchini - Elite

20 Broccoli (Early Dividend, Arcadia, Bay Meadows)

10 Cheddar Cauliflower

10 Jade Cross E Brussels Sprouts

55 row feet of carrots (Danver Half Long, Bolero, Napoli)

24 Leeks (King Richard, Bandit)

12 row feet of bunching onions

18 mini Romaine lettuce (Dragoon and Breen)

16 row feet of Radishes (so far) Cherry Bell and French Breakfast.

I may plant some Daikon Radishes as well if I pull my tomatoes next weekend.

Around 230 garlic will be planted in mid October.

I finally let the potato beetles win which might have been a huge mistake because I'm still finding Colorado potato beetles on other plants include tomatoes. Early tomatoes have been eaten by furry critters so war was declared. Planted all pole beans this year instead of French filet bush beans. Have been very pleased with Fortex and will grow again. The two other varieties which can be dried as shell beans got away from me so looks like we'll be having some shell beans. Tomatoes are better/healthier this year because of drought. Peppers which include a lot of varieties never grown before are doing great. I gave away surplus plants to a neighbor who raved about how great my plants looked while his were puny. I have had good luck growing healthy tomato plants in my high tunnel but this year the outside ones look pretty good. Last year we had too much winter squash so this year I didn't plant as much and this year something happened and the winter squash doesn't seem to be growing as fast. I replanted two hills were germination did not occur. Delicata did ok but spaghetti squash seedlings became a mecca for striped cucumber beetles so I just let them feast.

We redug and added more soil, composted manure etc to a bed that became infested with maple tree roots despite being past the drip line. I may have to grass it over. Planted potatoes there this year and have my fingers crossed. Should have dug potatoes by now. A neighbor never plants until after June 1 and claims he never gets potato beetles. I do have some kale sprouting in the potato bed now that potato plants have died back. It's harvestable size.

Summer squash and zukes did great after two years of disease and bugs. New bed must have made the difference. I try to rotate.

Great garlic but I had one bulb that looks suspicious. Hope it's not the first sign of a virus.

I have not started anything for fall but I'm relying on my high tunnel to extend my growing season. Didn't get great spinach this year and hoping I can have some in the high tunnel. The first year of the high tunnel we had great spinach most of the winter. The other good thing about the high tunnel was I was able to over winter a rosemary and two variegated sages. They look terrific but were iffy in the spring. I had them swaddled in Agribon for the winter.

I have a packet of green manure that needs to be sowed.

One year I planted spinach in the early spring before we topped beds with composted horse manure. A second planting of same variety after horse manure was added was much bigger and more vigorous. That was a lesson to me that I need to add composted manure every year. I also add an organic vegetable fertilizer to all rows with more added later depending on the vegetable. This year I also added bone meal to pepper planting holes. Attended a tomato growing workshop by a commercial backyard grower who specializes in heirloom varieties. He sells to local restaurants. His planting hole mix included milk but I didn't understand why. It must be for the calcium. I also add some lime to planting rows of beets. Wood ashes get added to most beds except the one where I will plant potatoes.

My neighbor with the puny pepper plants had terrific looking Walla Walla onions. I can't seem to grow a decent onion.

I had some good early mixed lettuce plus some good head lettuce (romaine) from transplants I got in a seed starting workshop. A second variety which I thought was a red romaine got quite bitter and made more of a rounded head. I wonder if it was really a romaine.

I was late putting in basil transplants which were probably too long in the 6-packs. Cilantro and dill self sow for me but I should plant some dill next year to coincide with the pickle making season.

I really hate summer's end.

For my first official year gardening in a raised bed/SFG, things have gone pretty well. I had a blockbuster spring with tons of lettuce, kale, chard and mizuna, as well as a good crop of peas that produced well into June. The broccoli bolted early and the carrots/radishes took a long time to mature, but those were the main low points.

Summer was pretty good as well, although the heat/humidity caused me to have a very low tomato harvest. Got some good bush beans, strawberries, basil, and the chard has still been producing. Lots of basil pesto for the freezer!

For fall/winter, my plan is:

. Carrots (both for fall and to overwinter)

. Kale, chard, lettuce, mizuna (all in process of being transplanted/sowed)

. Peas (planted these a month ago and have some big shoots flourishing)

. Broccoli (going to give this another try, have a seedling that's hardening off now)

. Radishes (planning on growing these into winter)

. Turnips and rutabagas (these have been in the ground for about a month and are in various stages of growth)

. Garlic (on order, will plant end of Sept)

I would double check garlic planting time for your area. I grow hard neck and don't put it in until late October. I'm cold side of zone 5 in NH. Have been growing garlic for about 6 years or so. Also, two years ago started heavily mulching garlic bed with straw after planting. Although not completely weed free, this prevents a lot of weeds from growing yet garlic does just fine poking up thru straw. Good luck and sorry for unsolicited advice. Just something I wish someone had told me in year One.

While I wish everyone had awesome gardens at all time, it's still good to see we're not alone in our gardening woes. :)

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tl:dr version:

Success: lettuce, radishes, bush beans, peppers (sweet and hot), carrots.

Mixed: beets, cucumbers, Swiss chard, spinach, garlic.

Fail: tomatoes.

Fall crops to come: radishes, spinach, lettuce, carrots, beets, Swiss chard.

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"You really have this much time to waste, shouldn't you be tending to your garden?" long version:

Spring crops:

Mostly a success. I could barely keep up eating lettuce. Spinach was a bit slow and I only got one large harvest before it bolted, but it was really good. Radishes I ate a ton of.

Summer crops:

These are ongoing and are a mixed success.

Cucumbers took off a bit late and are not producing quite as much as I'd hoped, but I'm getting some to both eat fresh and pickle and they're good. The plants seem to have powdery mildew.

I ate a good amount of bush beans and may yet get more.

I had a dozen or so beets that did not get very large, but there were very good. Their foliage was decimated by leaf miners however, too bad as I like to eat it.

I have picked several cosmic purple carrots and still have a couple dozen in the ground, these are doing great!

The Swiss chard has been heavily damaged by leaf miners as the beets were, so I was not able to eat much. The onslaught seems to have receded for the moment, but the leaves are now extremely bitter. I'll wait until fall's cooler temperature to eat more.

Tomatoes are the big disappointment. Last season's plants grew huge and unruly and they were loaded with fruits. I was unprepared and had to rig last minute support systems and it was a mess in there, but I had a big yield for only 6 plants. This year, I eagerly set up large support systems in advance and have a total of 10 plants. They have barely grown to 3 or 4 feet and I'm on track to have about 1/3 of last year's harvest despite 67% more plants, bummer... The two cherry tomato plants I have are in containers and doing better than my in-ground Italian and reds for some reason, but still nowhere near last season's size, where everything was in-ground, in the same bed, which I amended with a bit of fresh compost.

I planted 7 garlic cloves last fall, more for kicks than wanting a serious production. I lost 4 to frost heave due to an early thaw followed by hard frosts. The other 3 came out fine, but I lost the scapes to unknown bugs that bore holes into them.

Peppers, however, have been doing very good and are the saving grace of my small garden. I've picked a couple dozen Jwala and have at least as many on the way. The one jalapeno plant gave me about 12 peppers. I will soon have picked about 100 Scotch Bonnets from two plants. Most of these have been and will be turned into fermented hot sauce. I have four mini-sweet pepper plants, they're loaded and about to ripen. I have two bell pepper plants with a fair number of pods, likely to get rip in the coming weeks. I also have four yellow Rocotos, which have been taking longer than the annuum or chinense to reach every stage, but are now my largest plants by far, are full of flowers and a few have set pods. I'll likely have to bring them indoors to ripen as I fear this will not be be before October or so, but I plan to overwinter a couple anyway.

Fall crops:

Aside from letting the above crops get ripe and hopefully produce more, I've planted fall radishes, namely Long Noir Maraîcher and daikon. I have second plantings of carrots and beets that should be good for October harvest. I'm hoping the Swiss chard will produce sweet leaves in the coming weeks as weather cools down. I've sprouted several plants of spinach indoors and will transplant outside in a couple of weeks perhaps. I will attempt more lettuce as well. I used a 2'x8' cold frame to start early this spring and will attempt to keep things going longer underneath it in the fall as well.

Zeedman (and anyone else who knows about bitter melon), is it safe to eat bitter melon after it starts to turn yellow and form the red aril around the seeds? I read that the red arils are poisonous, and maybe the yellowish parts of the pod, too. Can you still eat the yellow pod if you scrape the seeds out?

http://www.livestrong.com/article/494350-is-bitter-melon-poisonous/

The above article also claims it has a foul smell and that all parts are toxic in quantity. Maybe they are looking at some other cultivar. I didn't notice any smell and the Chinese type in particular is very mild, almost like celery. But even the Indian type is only mildly bitter.

Let's see, this year I had:

Bumper crop: Snap peas, carrots, beets, leeks, peppers

Good/Average year: Winter squash, zucchini (came out hard but fizzled early), pole beans, cabbage, onions, garlic, eggplant, lettuce, potatoes

Poor year: Artichokes, broccoli, cauliflower, okra (I've got to learn my lesson and give up), tomatoes, spinach

Complete fail: cucumbers

Fall crops to come: Lettuce, carrots, spinach, Brussels sprouts, ongoing tomatoes, peppers, eggplants

Sounds like a lot of people are having a good pepper year and a bad tomato year.

Peter, I've also attempted okra, but I fear I transplanted them too deep and the stem rotted when only a foot high, so that was a no-start, but I may yet try again next season. They were doing great in containers as I started them indoors.

My cucumbers are going down hard due to powdery mildew, I think I may have eaten the last of them already... I'll give them a few days and pull if no more production, so I can plant fall crops.

About tomatoes, my mother and me live in the same town and plant from the same seed stock. Hers are doing fairly well this year, while mine are stunted and bear few fruits. Last season was the opposite, go figure! A relative in eastern Europe gave me a bunch of seeds for yellow, brown, black, fish and other tomatoes, I'll be trying these next season.

Interesting reading everyone's accounts. My experiences this year were slightly different in that our tomatoes are doing just fine while our pepper plants never took off. Actually, the hot peppers - in a separate bed outside the fences in garden- are doing great. For some unknown reason, our sweet pepper transplants never grew much. They are tiny, pathetic looking and not setting fruit. I have no idea why. We did things exactly the same last year and they thrived.

Cucumbers were a total fail due and our zucchini got hit so hard by something I think was cucumber beetles? Just had to pull them out and plant something else. Very disappointing.

Our beans also did worse this year than last. They got hit by something- possibly Mexican bean beetle? Also, although the garden is completely fenced in and il quite sure no critter with legs got in- I'm wondering if birds are our young plants? We came home one day to take me of damage and that was our only guess. They bounced back a bit but were never the same.

things that did well for us- tomatillos. We harvested so many and there are many, many more filling out thier husks on the vine. Chard- always a winner. The eggplants were almost destroyed after transplant but survived and are now churning out nice fruits. Poblanos, jalapeños, paprika peppers- going great. Collards are looking nice for a fall crop. New Zealand spinach grew way beyond expectations and is standing up to these temperatures. Using some almost every day for salads. All our cabbage did pretty well too despite the bugs.

Hot peppers: A+... No complaints whatsoever

Eggplants: A+... have been my top producer and we are getting sick and
tired of eggplant tempura and eggplant parm. Light damage from Japanese
Beetles.

Herbs: A+ no complaints.

Kale and Chard: A-... Both still going strong, even in the unbearable
heat. Early damage from leaf miners and cabbage moths, but that's easy
to remedy.

Zucchini: B+... was great early on, lots of fruit, but succumbed to PM fast and hard. Tried succession planting, but didn't work out. PM just overtook everything. Milk, Baking soda, neem didn't help much.

Sweet peppers: B+.. slow to take off. Harvested several lbs of
cubanelles from 2 plants. Bells have been ok. Shepherd are finally
starting to turn red.

Beans: B- ... I was afraid my pole beans were not going to set any
fruit, but they finally started producing a couple of weeks ago.
Japanese Beetles have been a total nuisance but not as bad as last year.
Biggest issue for me has been supporting them, which required some
McGivering with rope tied to the fence.

Tomatoes: B... excellent in July, but they are slowing down significantly now, even though I am feeding regularly. No fungal or bacterial issues. Healthy foliage, just not producing fruit as fast and they did in July. Slightly disappointing.

Cucumbers: F... What cucumbers? What a waste of space they were this year.

Interesting I am not the only one to fail at cucumbers. Are they harder to grow than squash? This was my first year trying. I think I planted Jackson Classic, the forst round were heavily shaded and were stunted, I tried planting some more with some more sun but still no luck, small stunted plants.

"Zeedman (and anyone else who knows about bitter melon), is it safe to
eat bitter melon after it starts to turn yellow and form the red aril
around the seeds? I read that the red arils are poisonous, and maybe the
yellowish parts of the pod, too. Can you still eat the yellow pod if
you scrape the seeds out?"

Happy, I disagree with the linked article on several points. For one, they claim that "wild cucumber" is synonymous with bitter melon; while it may be called that somewhere, in the U.S. "wild cucumber" is generally Echinocystis lobata. For edibility, you would not want to confuse the two.

They (and several other sites) refer to the "unpleasant odor" of the vines... but when in bloom, the vines are very sweet scented. The foliage, if disturbed, smells much like tomato foliage - which I hardly find to be unpleasant.

The ripe melons should not be eaten. The red arils that surround the seeds, though, can be eaten, although I personally wouldn't recommend large quantities. A friend of ours uses them in the rice cooker to color rice red. As for the "all parts toxic in quantity"... perhaps, but what quantity? All the people I supply with bitter melon use it - cooked - as part of a dish; I doubt that you could stomach much eaten alone. Some of our Filipino friends actually like the young leaves & vine tips better than the fruit... in September, they will gather together to harvest all of the young growth on my vines. They blanch them, and freeze them in quantity for Winter use.

"But even the Indian type is only mildly bitter."

You are a better man than I am, Charlie Brown. ;-) I can only stomach the milder Chinese & Japanese cultivars.

By the way... if for some reason you feel the need to grow something "foul smelling", grow Martynia. The very young pods can be used like okra, but have a slightly bitter flavor. (It is a noxious weed in much of the U.S.). Pretty flowers, and hard (and sharp!) ornamental pods - but it belongs in the anti-social corner, next to litchi tomato. Both of those have naturalized in my garden, lucky me. ;-)

Lol, don't want to grow foul things, though it's interesting to learn that about Cat's Claw. Just wanted to know, if I find a Bitter Melon that is starting to go to seed, can I at least still eat the top parts of the pod that are still mostly green. Don't want to have to throw it away. I'm drying it for use as tea in the winter, will dry some of the leaves too.

"Peter (6b SE NY) Interesting I am not the only one to fail at cucumbers."

Seems like a bad year for lots of people I know growing cukes in my area; heck mine have done better than average and it's really nothing to write home about. I will most likely pull the plants this coming weekend.

This year was a lot of frustration. By far the worst overall since I built the raised beds. This late in the game everything is started to look tired and brown. Highs are still close to 90 but lows are starting to creep down into the 40s at night. Another month, and we'll probably have our first freeze.

Eggplant (asian, turkish orange, and black beauty) were a waste of space this year. Half of the plants were mowed down by pillbugs (yes, I know it's unlikely but I am absolutely sure) within a couple of weeks of planting out. The rest are all less than a foot tall, will flower but not set fruit. Except for the turkish orange, which is doing fine but the fruit is incredibly bitter no matter how small I pick it. Ironically, the usual eggplant bane, aphids, were completely uninterested this year.

Tomatoes were also pretty much a net disaster. Eight plants, all different varieties, and pretty much nada for fruit. I don't know why, could be bacterial, viral, fungal, bug damage, weather, or a combination of all of the above. Very disheartening.

Hot peppers did OK (cayenne, fish, and early jalapeno). They're setting fruit, it's just smaller than normal. Sweet peppers (corno types) weren't as prolific and I lost some fruit to sunburn.

I tried two different varieties of cucumbers this year and while I did get some harvest, they started going downhill early and fast. I skipped growing squash this year in the hopes the squash bugs would move on but they seemed equally happy using the cucumber plant as host.

My pineapple tomatillos did really well, though. Lots of foliage, absolutely loaded with fruit. I wish I had known that this was the year for tomatillos; I would have chosen a variety with larger fruit.

Peas didn't do well. My first planting were all eaten by chipmunks and the second batch got the early summer heat and turned crispy.

Garlic did well, but was way earlier than I've ever had. I ended up harvesting in late June. Normally, they aren't ready until August.

Basil went seed early and fast.. The dill and cilantro never came up. Sage, oregano, and thyme did fine. Chamomile was a first for me and it did OK as long as I watered it every day.