Cucumbers: Awesome! 1st time growing cucumbers and I had such a positive experience. Definitely will be growing them again next year. Will plant 2 in the ground and 1 in a deep pot.
Tomatoes. Thrilled. With the amount of jerry-rigging I had to do to keep my tomato plants upright, I'm surprised they grew tomatoes at all. With the large amount of rain earlier in the summer my tomato cages came out of the ground. So the entire summer the tomatoes were leaning to the right and squashed together. At times, it was hard to find the ripe tomatoes but when I did, they were so yummy. I had 2 types: Better Boy and Early Girl. Although both produced, I have to admit, even though I was rooting for the Early Girl, the Better Boy had bigger and better tomatoes so I'll grow them again next year and try a different brand of tomatoes next year. I also grew husky cherry tomatoes which when I purchased them, I thought they were cherry tomatoes. They were good but it was a completely different tomato plant than I'm use to so next year I will focus on grape tomatoes instead.
Beans: Man, once this plant got started it grew like mad. Seriously I had a Jack and the Bean Stalk kind of plant. It took over one side of my deck. I got a huge amount of beans but unfortunately didn't really know when to pull them off the vine and at times, I left them on to long and they either passed maturity or turned yellow. I was really bummed but am thinking of growing them again next year.
Radishes: Perfect. Easy to grow and quick to mature. Yummy too. Will grow again next year.
Turnips: Bummed. 5 grew and I left them in the ground way to long. They were huge! Tasted yucky. So mad at myself for not pulling them earlier. I also had 4 that grew in a pot. They were much smaller but tasted more like what a turnip should taste like.
Green Peppers: Epic fail this year. Originally planted 2. One next to the cucumber plant and the other by the tomato plant. The cucumber plant kept strangling one with it's feelers. The other was overtaken by the tomato plant. So I pulled them both up and re-planted them. They never really took to their new location but 1 did bear one green pepper. I later went out and bought 4 more plants.
I planted 2 in a pot together and 2 in the ground by the bean plant. Again, the bean plant over took the area and the 2 green pepper plants didn't do as well as they could have. The 2 in the pot did much better producing about 10 peppers but since I waited a while to plant them they grew much smaller than last year. So I have a new plan and a new location for my pepper plants. We'll see how they do next year.
Strawberries: I have no idea what I did different this year than last year. Same plant, same store, different pot. But man, this strawberry plant really produced this year. Cody got many yummy, big strawberries this summer. Plan to grow strawberries again next year in the same pot. Hopefully I'll get a great turn out again.
Brussel sprouts: This is the slowest plant I've ever grown. I'm almost getting really bored with it. I planted 4 total. Only 2 are hanging in there. 1 in the ground which was between the cucumber and bean plant and the other in a pot. the one in the ground got picked on by some bug. It had huge leaves but some bug or critter ate big holes in the leaves which is odd since I grew lettuce too and whatever ate the brussel sprout leaves certainly wasn't interested in the lettuce leaves. Anyway, still watching it and wondering am I going to get any brussel sprouts? Not going to plant this next year.
Lettuce: Loved how it grew. Waited to long to pull it so it wasn't super yummy. Might grow it again next year but it's almost easier just to go buy a head or Romaine from the store.
Basil: Super easy to grow but didn't prune it quickly enough and it got to big and as Ken said, didn't taste as good when you prune it. will grow it again next year, just in a smaller pot.
Parsley: Easy to grow, easy to prune, easy to share. Will continue to grow. Hopefully in the house like last winter.
Rosemary: Perfect. Easy to grow, easy to share with friends, and yummy on fish. Hoping to grow in the house like last winter.
Yellow Squash: Beautiful plant, had such potential. Didn't live long in the pot. But I was able to grow 1 squash. Very yummy. Won't grow Squash again. Don't have the space.
So that's my stats. I learned a lot from my garden this year. I took a lot of photos to chronicle the journey. I enjoyed it but now, all I have left is the green peppers and tomatoes. I'm sure in a week or 2 they will be done as well.
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