First my house is on a 3/4 acre lot surrounded by huge Oaks bordering the entire property with the house by the street. I made a new vegetable garden are this year (approx 10x20) on the back of the lot. This was the best place to get enough sunlight to grow a veggie garden. It did poorly, small plants, blossom rot, small fruit, and some plants did not even fruit. I was puzzled since I had worked compost/manure into the soil, watered, and fertilized. a couple of weeks back someone was in my back yard and was looking at my pepper and their bright green/yellow color and deduced that the 40foot Oak trees to the back of the lot were probably the issue.

My question is. has anyone every ran into this issue? If so, is there anyway to get around it? Anything I can do? Moving it is not a feasible option.

Thanks in advance