You know, we really don’t know what we’re doing. But despite ourselves, we’re going to have some food to harvest (fingers crossed).
Here’s the report:
Spinach - none
Lettuce - we ate some; it wasn’t very delicious, but it was OK. It’s gone now.
Radishes - didn’t get very big; the ones that were edible were very hot. Is the soil too clay-ey for root plants?
Carrots - still too little to tell, but the greens look good. Hope they can shove their way into the clay…
Lavender - drowned. Will it come back next year?
Tomatoes - some good, some not so good. Most have at least a wilted part, but I hear heirlooms are prone to wilt…? We have some baby tomatoes (fingers crossed).
Peppers - looking good. Some baby yellow banana peppers.
Cucumbers - we have one almost ready to harvest and all the vines look good.
Spaghetti Squash – might take over the backyard. Lots of blossoms.
Watermelon - only 5 out of 9 vines survived and aren’t growing as fast as I thought, but they’re hanging in there.
Red Poppies – no shows
Purple Coneflowers – no shows
Marigolds - regular ones blooming, French ones getting ready
Zinnias - blooming, mostly gold
Meadow flower packet – tall and lovely, mostly gold also
B. bought some native plants and put on the side of the house and they’re flourishing. Can’t wait to see the columbines bloom next year. The rose bed I rehabbed for his dad is looking a little peaky, but blooming. The pink impatiens his folks bought for the front terrace aren’t getting as big as I expected. The Alyssum seeds I planted out there washed away and never germinated (as B. predicted).
Here’s what I’m thinking for next year:
- No-till, square-foot beds.
- No more Seeds of Change seeds – we had too many that didn’t germinate.
- Plant raspberries and/or blackberries.
- Read lots of gardening books this winter.
And that’s it. We’re certainly not urban farmers yet.
