Rotten tomatoes

I'm learning. I hadn't planned on planting any of the largest tomatoes this year for this reason. The one plant of mid-sized ones have almost all split before being ripe. The closest ones in this picture just have bad spots on them.

The closest ones are supposed to be the 'early' tomatoes. It's Sep and they are still producing. The ones that are good are good. Tasty and nice texture. From that plant maybe a third of them are bad.

The ones in the middle have all been bad. I found 1 today that wasn't rotten but had more than one split on it. My wife tried it and it was not good.

The ones in the background are supposed to be a big producer. They are, but all split. I've read that is from the ground getting too dry and too wet. The skin needs to grow at an even rate.

We are eating chili with tomatoes, peppers and onions from the garden. We've also had chicken philly sandwiches with peppers and onions.

Did pull a couple of the carrots yesterday. One tasted good, the other not so good. Haven't pulled any of the beets yet.

Garlic. I've found a place to get it and it is something we do eat and doesn't have to be eaten when it is dug. I've tried it once before with seed from Menards. This time I will get it from a place that just grows garlic. I have found one in WI that is a few miles from us but we have to order ahead and can only pick up on two days during the week.

Overnight lows are still forecasted to be in the 40's for the next 10 days. Garlic is supposed to be planted after the 1st killing frost.

I planted three types of bell peppers and one gypsy pepper. My orange bells we have eaten as green peppers and there has been a few of those. A dozen maybe? Which is doing good because the egg plant next to it is has produced the fewest of the four plants. The cherry tomato plant is just barely alive while the other three plats are still growing like wild. And the squash plant has so far produced two squash and is still maybe three feet across while the others are six to 10 feet across.

My black bell produced two peppers that did turn black. We cut them open and they were bad inside.

My yellow bell got overgrown by the large tomatoes and a huge egg plant. I finally dug it out a few days ago and now there are two baby bells on it the size of a quarter. Not sure if they will make it or not. Maybe if I chop down the tomato and egg plant that no one is going to eat anyway?

The gypsy pepper is doing OK. I've had them do better other years. We might have gotten a couple of dozen peppers so far this year and there are still a few more that should make it.