I have Early Girls teasing me, but not red yet. Fortunately I also planted Sweet 100's so have had a few from them...

Didn't plant peppers this year (first year in new home), but am thinking it's just as well.

It's supposed to get nice the rest of the week. Maybe we'll be harvesting by the end of the week!

grandma, yeah it would b nice. where in wa (i assume) are ya? i'm in bellingham.

The ground is too cool here for peppers and eggplants to do well in my experience. I plant them in black plastic nursery pots and they do much better, as the sun warms the black plastic and gives them the heat they need. Variety is also important. Hot Wax is doing well for me, loaded and now they are ripening and turning orange. They are hot.

A similar sweet pepper that does well is Sweet Banana.

This is Frank's, a new one for me this year-

Long type of Japanese eggplant-

I'm sure there are lots of other peppers that will do well also, but in the ground they don't do well at all for me.

I start tomatoes in Feb. and plant out in April under tunnels and even then I started getting ripe ones in mid July, but only a few straggling in this year because of the cool weather, but now I have a lot of green tomatoes coming on and am starting to get more ripe ones on more varieties. Juliet, IPB, and Siberian Pink are some of my early ones, and the large Verna's Orange Oxheart was early but has not yielded very prolifically yet. There are lots of short season tomatoes like Stupice, Taxi, Early Cascade, Rousich, Moscvich, etc. that will yield faster under cool conditions. There are also small ones good for growing in pots, check out the GW tomato forum. I've gotten tomatoes very early from plants in pots, the larger the pot the better they will do, whereas peppers don't seem to care that much. I also grow okra in pots as it likes heat.

hemnancy, i forgot to mention all of my plants are in pots.

Then I would suggest maybe they dried out a little sometime to drop the blossoms. I water daily with some fish emulsion fertilizer in the water. Or you need a different variety.

Weird, this is the best crop of peppers I've had in 10 years! The fruits are so huge that I've had to stake the plants, which I don't usually have to do. My tomato plants (all romas) are loaded with fruit and are just now starting to turn red.

It seems to me that while we've definitely had some cool weather, we've had plenty of warm weather too. That heat wave in July really gave my plants a boost.

Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants seem to be doing super this summer.
Blossom end rot on tomatoes is often because of low calcium. Try putting a handful of pelleted lime in th4e bottom of each hole when you plant. jwww

We planted tomatoes and peppers at the end of June! The crop isn't as productive as it was last year but is still very adequate. I assumed it was because of the late start but it may have something to do with weather as well.

Have been harvesting Sungolds that are deliciously juicy and on the acid side of sweet, Red Currants are very good and prolific, and just picked the first of the Brandywines and Green Zebras. The Jaune Flamme has been steady, a reliable producer for about three weeks now. Still holding out for Earl's Faux. Just a couple of peppers on the vines.

If you're having blossom drop, wouldn't that be a sign that the flowers might not have been pollinated? I always hand pollinate when the flowers begin to show, flicking each one with my fingers. And of course, we grow tons of roses and other perennials to bring in the pollinators.

Sue