A quick picture summary of the garden this year

[mousme]

Between constantly losing my camera cable and being really busy at work, I never got around to posting pictures of the garden.

There are a lot, but here's a sampling:



Crocuses! (Croci?) The first sign of spring:



The roses flowered beautifully:



The rhubarb. If you can credit it, this was taken over a month ago:



Cherries! Yum. I need to plan better for these next year, though. I was completely caught off-guard.



This is reflects about 25% of the basil I got this year:



Cherry tomatoes, as of last weekend:



My sad, slug-eaten cucumber. I got exactly two tiny cucumbers this year:



The peppers didn't do very well, sadly:



The Big Beef tomatoes, as of this weekend:

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

That's about as well as the peppers ever do, IME. We don't really live in an outdoor pepper-growing climate.

Great job on the garden, it looks fantastic!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall your pepper plants growing more than a foot high. ;)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Ours didn't. We tried for three years, got foot-high plants, and weeny little peppers that weren't good for much. We gave up and planted more! tomatoes! instead.

[mieszko.livejournal.com]

Nice pictures. They made me hungry.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

For a first attempt at a garden, it all worked out pretty well. I'm lucky that ai731 did so much of the groundwork before she left. :)

[mieszko.livejournal.com]

For a first attempt it looks impressive. I think our volunteer plants this year are doing better than the things we planted.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Wow... looks like your garden was a raging sucess this year. I am wistfully pointing out the tomatoes in particular.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Parts of it were a raging success. The basil and lettuce did really well. Some were okay: the herbs and onions are a little iffy. Some parts just sucked: my garlic disappeared, and the cucumbers and peppers sulked due to slugs and the weather.

Overall I'm pleased with this first effort. There was a pretty steep learning curve, and I'm much more optimistic for next year in terms of planning.

[mieszko.livejournal.com]

Your garlic may return next year we've had that happen before.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Yes, ours keeps coming back, year after year...

[mieszko.livejournal.com]

Even after harvesting?

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We're mystified. Every year we think we've pulled it all out, and we turn over the soil and everything... and then next year the damn stuff comes back. At least it's only a plant or two, and it doesn't multiply. We inherited it from the previous tenants, who may have inherited it from someone earlier.

[mieszko.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, wonder if its reseeding itself.

[striped.livejournal.com]

Oo, gorgeous edible things!

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! Cucumbers sometimes do better if you get a screen under them, or train them up a trellis. That way they don't lie on the ground and get mushy/slug-ridden.