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Problems with garden

I haven't written much, but have read alot and I have a problem.  When I
started out, the first year my sq ft garden was wonderful, lots of everything
and it all looked great and tasted great.  Since then, every year has been
worse.  I've tried to alternate where I put the different types of plants and
have used lots of amendments and composted manure and stuff.  This last year
my cucumber vines grew to a reasonable size and then died off.  The tomato
vines also never really got a chance to produce.  The only thing I got in
number was Serrano Peppers and those did beautifully, but the rest of my
peppers only produced one or two each.  Help.  Could I have gotten diseases in
the soil and if so would the clear plastic treatmen work.  I'm in California
so you can grow year round, but I even gave it a rest for a season and that
didn't help.  We get some frost, but not enough to cause problems or even help
kill off stuff.  Right now I got so disgusted that I let the grass grow and
it's really tall.  Should I pull it?  Mow it?  Leave it under the plastic and
later compost it?  Please, I want to get back to producing again.  Paige
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