My serrano peppers are coming in, although my other hot peppers – habanero and ghost – are a little behind the curve. I am going to make some hot sauce using many of the tomatoes that are coming in, along with some of the hot peppers from last Fall that I put in the freezer. My garlic has now been picked and is drying out in my shed.
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I’ll be honest I have 2 that I transplanted because they would leaf but not flower in one spot. They are in a better growing spot and are lush with leaves but have not flowered yet! I didn’t think they were finicky because I see people who have them that don’t seem to be big gardeners and they thrive!
Soil chemistry, perhaps? If there is too much nitrogen, that might cause excessive leaf growth at the expense of flowering (I seem to recall that from growing vegetables). Or maybe a pH issue.
Although if they are all side-by-side, it may just be something with how that particular variety does in your soil.
We are going to fertilize them better next year. But it seems when we do that, w get tons of hew leaf growth and no new flowers.
The endless summer ones are supposed to bloom all summer. Not mine.
In cheerier news, I got two boomerang lilacs that were supposed to bloom three times (spring, summer and early fall). They are newbies, but both have bloomed twice already!
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Try a fertilizer high in phosphorus/phosphate. These will promote blooming. You can get ones that are exclusively geared towards that, triple phosphate cones to mind. I believe it is 0-45-0.
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Oh, wow! In which state / country do you live that you can grow Pineapples? Thats fantastic!
SE Florida. Problem is, my tomatoes and peppers and most spices were doing great until a month ago. Even on my patio shelf, by a window, they had too much sun. Next year I’ll put a raised box in the shadiest side of house.
Now back to hydrangeas. My mom had a Hedge of those lovely bushes in PA.
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Went shopping in my garden this morning. Picked up some corn, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes, and green, banana, Anaheim and jalapeno peppers.
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Amazing loot! 
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I am pea green with envy over your haul of gorgeous produce.
Can’t wait to start a garden at our new house next year. I will be back for tips from the seasoned gardeners here. All I know now is that we must do raised beds and will need pest screens over them. H wants to grow his salads. I had bad luck with lettuces before so we need to educate ourselves before we begin.
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I found that growing lettuce in self-watering garden beds on the deck solved a lot of my lettuce headaches because the slugs could not get to the plants. 
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My kid has lettuce planters on a workbench height table…keeps bunnies and other creatures away. The table can be moved to a covered patio also…and sometimes is if rain is torrential.
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These are my garden beds:
This year, I grew giant daikon radishes in one of them. Not sure if the radishes I grew were “giant,” but they were big (and tasty)!
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I like those self watering beds! I’d like 2 please. 
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Enough water? Soil?
I had what I believe is a Miss Saori hydrangea in a pot for years, then moved it to the ground a few summers ago. I keep trying to propagate it by burying branches, no luck until this year, but now I have two successful babies 
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They have gotten plenty of water…and no different than my neighbors who all have a lot of flowers. Maybe these just aren’t there yet. I also think I’ll get some fertilizer for them.
This is my first year growing vegetables (except for last year’s late experiment with zucchini and squash). I decided tomato cages were needed and bought some different models. We liked the square ones best at Lowes, can “wrap around” which was very handy on the larger plants.
Does anybody to cage or trellis for cucumber?
I used trellis for my Armenian cukes, but I let the pickling kind just slink out of the bed onto the deck.
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I grow mine up onto a section of fence. They love being off the ground.
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I have trellised my pickling cucumbers a couple of times in the past several years; and on each occasion they did not produce many cukes worth eating. Now I just let them grow along the ground.
I have read that the larger “slicing” cucumbers are more amenable to growing on a trellis than the pickling kind (as @BunsenBurner has noted with his varieties).
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