garden 2009

just to keep a record of my adventures in gardening:

so this season i tried a couple of things from seed. i had very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. i have had little to no time to maintain our allotment but it has been pretty self sustaining and we had regular rain as well.

i did peppers, carrots, okra and spinach from seed and directly into the ground. i bought a eggplant plant that yielded one eggplant.

the biggest surprise of the season was the carrots and okra. the carrots i was sure i had not thinned enough- but i was wrong! we probably got five pounds of carrots. most of them were all misshaped. about half seem normal sized and the other half are smaller.



carrots

the other surprise was the okra. i waited to long to harvest it and generally they were mutant huge okra. but charles was happy to have it and i finally learned how to make okra soup! yay!




last harvest of the year... green pepps, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, &okra

i took a small bed that i had tried and failed to have a clematis climber vine and moved all my tomatoes there instead. the result was good and i think i'll keep them there again next y ear.

this coming season- if we remain in our home (there's a chance we would move to an apartment)- i hope to eliminate half of our back lawn and really plant quite a bit.