Well I did fully intend to document my garden this year, but it took a backseat to other issues.
Like my health for instance, work and an educational non-profit that I help with. I am one of three directors. If you know about the 20 80 rule I am one of the 20 percent, and was very busy.
The garden did well, but not great.
I spoke with many other gardeners in the area, some 12 miles from my garden, and found that they had similar issue this past summer.
For instance, it seems that everything, and I mean all the summer and early fall crops, were very late showing any vigorous growth. Seedlings took sometimes 8 weeks to get growing. We did have a fairly cool June so that is probably why.
Cole crops, broccoli, cabbage, Brussel sprouts all had aphids and ruined the crop.
We are all asking ourselves why our raspberries didn't fruit!
Funny thing is, with cool weather in June my tomato crop was one of the most prolific ever!
Lettuces in my garden and elsewhere in this area were terrible. I thought with a cool June that they would do well. I planted 5-6 different varieties every two to three weeks and nothing worth noting happened. They all sucked wind.
My squashes were not nearly as abundant as past year, and varieties my Aunt Pat gave me from Italy did not do well, nor did any peppers. My pumpkins also did horrible.
Leeks, potatoes, onions, shallots carrots, tomatoes did very well. So this winter it has been potage parmentier, soups and stews. I also froze a boatload of tomato sauce and crushed tomatoes.
Well like other gardeners it the time of year to enjoy our seed catalogs, and get down to ordering seeds.
I will try again this spring, both in the garden and on this blog.
