Oct 28, 2009

Vegetable Garden Redux


Remember my square foot garden? I certainly didn't save any money this year. June and July were so wet that the plants were all really far behind where they should have been. The peppers flowered twice, but didn't produce anything I'd eat, and I'm not even fussy. Basil and cilantro (coriander) ended up being so late we bought seedlings from the store. The tomato plants produced a solid three tomatoes (they were good). The corn got going until we had our first frost and died off. The salad mix seemed to be a mix of the most bitter leaves anyone could find, though I did let the arugula (rocket) go to seed so that I can grow just a patch of it next year. The snap peas were good, but bountiful they were not. By far the only real success were the cucumbers: they were literally (okay, not really) coming out of our ears - big ol' juicy ones - at least 30 I would say. The onions are still out there - doing what I don't know. And as for the melons..