Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I am late on this subject but hope this is OK since the subject never really goes out of style.
 
This year is the first time in about 70 years that I have had what I call a "bust" of a garden.  I have gotten a few cucumbers and that is all I have gotten out of my garden thus far. 
 
I have planted corn three times.  Either they do not come up or when up about three inches, I go out there and a few of them are laying on the ground, cut off at ground level, and the rest are nowhere to be found.  I suspect cutworms but if that is what is getting the corn, I have a huge crop of cutworms. 
 
The onions have grown to quarter size up to golf ball size and then rot.  I planted onions for winter storage.  I will be buying onions this year.
 
My beans were planted near a fence to the pasture.  The horses have not touched them but my geese have enjoyed my black beans planted for dry beans.  They were standing pretty yesterday but today there are only 4 plants left -- completely stripped and those geese have more than an acre of good pasture plus dry feed.  I will really enjoy my Christmas Goose this year.
 
The potatoes are just setting there.  They did come up and I occasionally see a tiny potato surface but they are not growing like they always have.  I am trying to be organic but I may have to give in and go commercial fertilizer in order to feed my family from my garden.  My garden has been organic for many years but I do use some treatments on flowers and lawn, all of which are well away from the garden area.  I normally can enough vegetables that I don't have to buy any during the winter.
 
Planted all kinds of greens and beets and only one beet plant can be found.  I am going to try again with the greens in the raised bed where I just today harvested a few onions that are not totally rotten.
 
I had a wonderful garden in this same place last year -- everything did well.  I have used animal manure and leaves from our own farm on this garden for years.  I am so disappointed about my failure this year that I  could cry if it would do any good.
 
I will try to end of a positive note -- for the first time ever, I have planted and raised some black raspberries.  They have done well -- even better than my red raspberries.  I have made 36 half-pint jars of jams and jellies from those raspberries and they are the most beautiful jellies ever.  I also have 4 pints of raspberry syrup for our pancakes.  Plus, I picked some beautiful wild blackberries yesterday.
 
Juanita Reid
NE Ohio -Gardening Zone 5
goatrock5651@yahoo.com

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