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My tomatoes did the same thing but I got them out late, everything else, even the peppers did well. I did manage to get enough plum tomamtoes to make a batch of ketchup and a few slicers to cut up on top of cottage cheese (yum) but not enough to sell. I think the single most reason for crops not doing well here is not the weather, since there are several crops which thrive in our climate, is fertility. Add lots of compost, the soils need organic matter and don't rely solely on the compost. I make up my own organic fertilizer and add that too. My compost is a mix of leaves and grass clippings (I have several clients that do not use chemical fertilizers) from the landscaping and trimmings and left over produce that I don't feed to the chickens and of course, chicken litter and horse manure. Even if you have to buy compost you have to add it, either that or grow green manures or cover crops and till it in. And just an example, with your radishes, don't just plant one crop. Radishes only take 25 or so days. I sell all my radishes every week so I plant every week all summer. I direct seeded 2 crops of zuchinni and had way more than I could sell. I even matured Winter squash and pie pumpkins but things need to have all the nutrients available to them from day one and have enough for the whole time it takes to reach maturity. If they slow down before that you can always use liquid fertilizer like a seaweed/fish emulsion for a boost. And potatoes love it here and I'm still digging them up and putting them in storage. I still have carrots, beets, cabbage, brussel sprouts for sale out in the garden (snow insulated the ground before that cold snap hit) and this summer was not the best, so try adding more compost and fertilizer next year and see what happens. When I first started growing here in the Northwest after living in So Cali I found this great book by Steve Solomon called Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. It really helped a lot.
My tomatoes did the same thing but I got them out late, everything else, even the peppers did well. I did manage to get enough plum tomamtoes to make a batch of ketchup and a few slicers to cut up on top of cottage cheese (yum) but not enough to sell. I think the single most reason for crops not doing well here is not the weather, since there are several crops which thrive in our climate, is fertility. Add lots of compost, the soils need organic matter and don't rely solely on the compost. I make up my own organic fertilizer and add that too. My compost is a mix of leaves and grass clippings (I have several clients that do not use chemical fertilizers) from the landscaping and trimmings and left over produce that I don't feed to the chickens and of course, chicken litter and horse manure. Even if you have to buy compost you have to add it, either that or grow green manures or cover crops and till it in. And just an example, with your radishes, don't just plant one crop. Radishes only take 25 or so days. I sell all my radishes every week so I plant every week all summer. I direct seeded 2 crops of zuchinni and had way more than I could sell. I even matured Winter squash and pie pumpkins but things need to have all the nutrients available to them from day one and have enough for the whole time it takes to reach maturity. If they slow down before that you can always use liquid fertilizer like a seaweed/fish emulsion for a boost. And potatoes love it here and I'm still digging them up and putting them in storage. I still have carrots, beets, cabbage, brussel sprouts for sale out in the garden (snow insulated the ground before that cold snap hit) and this summer was not the best, so try adding more compost and fertilizer next year and see what happens. When I first started growing here in the Northwest after living in So Cali I found this great book by Steve Solomon called Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. It really helped a lot.
