We also live in NE Wisconsin. This is a sad year for my garden. Green beans just started to blossom, but peppers & Tomatoes are in the same row and I have lots of tomatoes and early peppers on plants that are 6" tall & so are the peppers.
My peaches look bad, but pears are loaded. Pumpkins are just starting to bloom & small plants, it better not freeze till Christmas to get big pumpkins. Now all these garden items are next to my apple trees & grapes, and they are both loaded. so it can`t be lack ob bees, I think it was the long very hot days from May up to now. We had lots of rain, but some plants can`t take the heat.

Our beans didn't do much either and we live in Northern arizona. I usually can 7 to 14 quarts of beans, but today I canned 7 pints and froze 3 pints, Our garden just didn't do good at all. I hope I get enough tomatoes to make my Italian sause and my salsam plus a dozen quarts of just canned tomatoes.

I did that one year and I got 4 beans ! ha ha beat yeah.
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We had a lot of green beans. Froze 6 or 7 gallon bags. Tomatoes are doing great. Made some salsa and am canning a dining room table top of them tomorrow. Lima beans are not doing so hot though.

All corn pollen is carried by the wind.
Next time, try saving seeds from local farm market lush tomatoes Dry them on paper towels or copier paper.
Plant them in egg cartons filled with peatmoss mixed with dirt.
I sure wish you better luck next summer! J

Don't you just dread what is going to happen to food prices this winter and next year if the crops are doing poorly? There is a large DelMonte canning plant not too far from us. Wonder if they are getting veggies to can?

Maybe I ought to be looking for a job, not spending my time sewing and gardening!!

Sue

same thing here lots of blooms, planted squash, cucumbers, tomatoes and beans I've gotten four zucchini a hand full of beans and about six tomatoes I gave them plenty of fertilizer and water added some prayer. we did get quite a few cucumbers but gave most of those away

We have had lots of beans. Don't know what dear husband does, but it works.

Hundreds of bees are at my hummingbird feeders every day. Wish I could send them to you. They won't let the hummers in to feed. Never have had them like this before.

I was thinking -- with the drought in the midwest and southwest -- the bees don't have anything to eat if everything is dieing. Our hummingbirds are bringing their babies to the feeders and it is funny to watch them learn what to do.