2020 Garden progress

My garden this year is hit and miss in a strange way.  I have things doing exceptionally well in the same bed with things just hanging on.  I should have ripe tomatoes by now, but have only had a couple cherry tomatoes.  I don't normally grow beefsteak tomatoes, and that is what I ended up with, so they may just take a lot longer to grow and get ripe.  In the raised beds and hugelkulture the tomato plants are about 4 feet high and have around 10 tomatoe about the size of tennis balls. The tomatoes I planted in the wood chip garden look sickly, they are about 1 1/2 to 2 feet high. One has two very small tomatoes on it.  Everything in the wood chip garden was planted the same.  I moved the wood chips aside until I found soil.  I dug into the soil 4 to 6 inches. I filled the hole up with compost and a little bone meal, blood meal, alfalfa meal, and Down to Earth Bio-live. Then I planted, and covered the compost with about 4" of wood chips.  One watermelon is growing like crazy, the other about 20' away has hardly grown at all.  The same with cantaloupe, same seed. One is all over, and the other is just not dying, but not growing. They are about 15' apart. All get full sun, I try to water the same.  It is very strange.  The golden egg squash in my hugelkulture is producing like crazy, I can't keep up.  I have a squash and zucchini in my raised bed doing well, and 3 others not producing much at all, the crock neck squash will start grow to about 3" and die.  The Squash in the wood chip garden looks beautiful, but hasn't produced a thing.  Beans are doing fair, but not like last year I couldn't pick them fast enough.  My one bell pepper has produced more peppers then I have ever had a pepper plant produce, but every one has gotten blossom end rot. The ice box pepper about 2' from the bell has 4 little peppers full size, but not to color yet, and they look beautiful.  Another bell pepper in a different raised bed, and in my hugelkulture are nice looking plants, but haven't produced a single pepper.  Normally I have lots of flowers in my garden, but this year very few flower seeds germinated.  It's just a strange year for me. Over the years I have had lots of failures, and lots of success, but can't remember ever having so much of both side by side.  
I finally got my raised beds mulched yesterday.  I think I will start using a water meter instead of my finger (I have it I might as well use it) maybe I'm not watering enough, or to much.  I will make compost tea, a couple times a month and hope things even out in my favor a little bit.  I haven't been spending the time I normally spend in my garden.  Normally I would work all day, get home about 3:30 4, and be in my garden, often till dark.  I needed it to keep me sane.  I am without  a job for the first time in 14 years, and even though I still love spending time in my garden I don't need it like I did when I worked.  So between a bad sleep schedule, the heat and the mosquitoes,it's harder to make myself spend the time I need to spend to keep things growing well.  We have also been having very odd weather.  One week it will be 105 and the next we are down to 77.  It has been yoyoing like that for about 3 months.  We usually stick around high 90s with occasional hell weeks of 105ish.  
I was wondering if everyone is experiencing strange happenings in there garden.  I hope all your gardens are doing amazing. Do tell.  Thanks

Holy Cow YES! This sounds like what I've had in my garden this year too!

I've planted 4 luffa seedlings, three in a nice bed with compost and deep soil, and one went into my hard clay soil in a corner (because I didn't have room anywhere else). The luffa in the clay is thriving and the others are just Meh. One of the ones in the bed just shriveled up and died after a few days; the other two are acting like they're under extreme stress, growing very slowly and not thriving at all.

Of my five shishito pepper seedlings that I started and hardened off for transplant, only two have survived. Two went in a nice prepped bed where I'd been doing Ruth Stout style composting to prepare, and three went into a huge container. The two in the bed shriveled and died, while the three in the container shot up. Then one of those mysteriously disappeared overnight. Literally no sign of it at all. (It was covered with netting and had a cage around it so I have no idea what happened)

My bell peppers are dragging butt this year too; normally I have lots of good sized peppers by now, but instead I've got four really small peppers that don't seed to have grown any bigger over the past two weeks.

Half of the bush green beans grew great, half of them withered and died; all treated exactly the same.

Also everything has been extremely late this year! I usually have tomatoes and peppers producing by mid March, and my Passionflower vine is usually massing flowers by April. Even my hibiscus/roselle is running late; I got two flower on it at the end of May, and then nothing. It finally has more buds on it now, but it's struggling in the heat and I don't think it's actually going to flower again.

My garden has been enjoying playing games with me this year: the plants that usually thrive are struggling, and the plants that I usually fight with are just humming along.

Thanks for posting Carolyne. Sorry you're having trouble too.  I'm sure some of it is the weather, but not all.  It's very strange. Hope things turn around for you. Good luck.