- Grow some interesting heirloom tomato varieties
- Plant a lot more peppers
- Keep lettuces going all summer
- Keep up with the weeding (my goal every year)
- Plant winter squash instead of pumpkins
- All of my 18 tomato plants died before anything could ripen. I think I harvested about four fruits.
- My pepper plants were stunted by a frost on June 1 and never yielded more than one or two peppers per plant.
- Lettuce did fantastically, but the weeds did better.
- I harvested some smallish winter squash, but I also got four really large pumpkins from some volunteer plants that grew from last year’s discarded jack-o-lantern guts.
- I had the best cucumbers in years. Gardening authors always tell you to keep cucumbers well watered. They are right.
- We are still eating kale, Brussels sprouts, purple cauliflower, Swiss chard, beets, and carrots out of the garden. In late November!
But the end is near. I harvested the last of the beets and chard, pulled up the kale and Brussels sprouts plants and placed them in buckets of dirt in the garage. I set up a cold frame and sowed some spinach seeds in it, planted garlic, harvested parsley and rosemary (still growing!), and then decided to take a last look around before coming in to write this. It was then I discovered another unexpected benefit of this year’s weird weather: several dozen mรขche seedlings were growing in a spot I had neglected to weed after an early spring harvest of salad greens. I transplanted them into the cold frame. Maybe this isn’t the bitter end after all.
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What a beautiful image, I would like to live in a place with a climate that allowed me to grow as beautiful brussels sprouts.
Hugs
Joana
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