Why arnt my vegtables growing?

Question

I have a veggie garden with tomatoes, cucs, habenero, and jalepenos. All of the plants are huge and flowering. Only problem is it seems that the flowers just dies and no veggies grow. My sisters garden tem minutes down the road has grow 30 cucs and a few tomatoes. Im getting worried!

Answer 1

Alright, first the tomatoes:
Tomatoes need a little encouraging to get their fruit going. You have to trim their suckers, to discourage stem expansion. Look in the place where the branches spread from the stem; if there is a small stem starting to sprout in the 'Y', you need to twist it off. If you keep trimming them about every three days, you should get some fruit pretty quickly.

For the peppers:
Try the same technique, but I dont think it's nessesary. Peppers just take a little bit of time, and soon you will have too many. You might want to check and see if something is eating the flowers at night, like rabbits. Eventually the plants will get so big that animals cant get to the inner flowers and they will fruit closer to the stems.

Cucumbers:
I have no personal experience with these, but there are general techniques you can use. If you have flowers, try pollinating. Take a q-tip and manually pollinate the flowers to make sure they are getting the chance to fruit.

If nothing works, look at www.garden.org, tons of stuff there!

Answer 2

Sounds like they're not being pollenated? Maybe go to the store and get a few flowering plants to sit around the area to attract pollenating bees and butterflies. If that's not feasable, use a camel haired detail paintbrush to manually pollenate them yourself by swishing it around the center of one flower, then onto the next and so on.

Answer 3

Your soil may be more or less acidic than hers. It could even vary in different parts of your garden. Call a greenhouse in your area and see if there is somewhere you can take your soil to get it tested.

Answer 4

fertilize and keep watering...

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