I guess I'll learn from it

I am very good with flowers.
Really.
I have also grown pears, strawberries, tomatoes and peppers for years to make my own salsa and pasta sauces to can.
This year, with DH being layed off work for so long I decided to expand the veggie garden.

My squash and mellons all rotted away.

The apple and pear tree are covered with rust so the leaves have been dropping. They have very few tiny fruit. I have 2 little plum trees that didn't set any fruit.

I tried cauliflower for the first time and instead of one head I have several tiny ones with leaves between them, What happened there?

I bought a packet of mixed cabbage. I have a few heads but some are growing loose leaves, not as far apart as brussel sprouts, but not heads. I don't know what happened there either.

My broccoli are tiny little heads. Some of them the rabbits got but I put up a taller fence and planted more that I had started in a greenhouse and they are tiny spaced buds out too. the second plants I put out are romanesco that I have never seen growing so I don't what I did wrong.

My onions got the size of golf balls and then the tops fell over and are dying off.

Flea beetles attacked my eggplants but I also had extras that I kept in the greenhouse until they were good sized and I just put them out.

I have been spraying everything with neem oil.

I got a little bit of lettuce before most of it bolted. I got about 3 cups of cilantro from 8 plants before it bolted.

I guess I'll try again next year.

So far my tomatoes are doing good! Very Happy

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I came back here to delete that post.
I was just in a sorry mood yesterday. We were getting another flooding rain. I think the biggest problem this year is so much rain. I'm pretty sure that rotted my melons and squash.
I just don't know what went wrong with most of the plants like the onions,carrots,cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli.
I tried onions and carrots before without luck. I have clay soil that I mix in homemade compost.
I mixed huge amounts of sand into a raised bed for the onions and carrots this spring because someone told me that my problem was that the soil was too dense and moist. Now I just don't know.Maybe I still have too much compost?

The apple and pear trees have ceder-apple rust from my neighbor's ceder trees and there isn't a good organic solution for that so I will look for varieties to replace some of them. I had been looking for a liberty apple but I can't find one. I was told to get a granny smith but I have one of them and it is teribly infected too. I will get a few pears this year that are small and deformed. I may just juice them. The apples were horrible so I have been throwing them away.

I am planning on remaking my entire garden area this fall and have all raised beds. that should help next year.