So, how did your garden do this year?

**HappyMama** · 09-21-2011, 01:31 PM

Our Garden did ok, and we were very pleased.

I did over 14 varieties of heirloom tomatoes with about 100 plants, a large herb and vegetable garden in a smaller space. We grew many things vertical, including cucumbers, beans, pumpkins, cantaloupe and heirloom watermelon. We had raised beds, container, vertical, and a modified square foot garden. We had over 700 pounds of tomatoes and many bushels of peppers, a couple pecks of jalepenos and many other plants did fantastic as well. We have donated, sold some to special heirloom buyers and have been canning,dehydrating, and freezing. We do a couple methods of composting, have a worm compost , rain barrels and do all organic.

**nodmicks** · 09-21-2011, 01:44 PM

Sheesh I'm kind of a dipstick today! I forgot a few thing that were in the garden

Cantalope we got 12

Peppers out of 9 plants about a dozen.

See my mind is working because I am now taking the produce/ fruit from the mudroom and processing it

**shoiji** · 09-21-2011, 01:51 PM

Not very well. Had a very wet summer. Atleast it was cooler outside.

Good thing is that I know I can grow herbs from seed.

**frugalfranny** · 09-21-2011, 02:22 PM

I don't grow a large variety of things like some people on here but after our HORRIBLY wet drenching spring, where I had to re-do all my cucumber plants, I am pretty happy with what I have gotten.

Wasn't sure I would ever get tomatoes, but I have great sun and they came through..........just gave about 20 pounds of them away and that wasn't counting the cherry tomatoes.

Still haven't picked my squash.........and this was strange........my acorn didn't do too great (kept sending up nothing but male flowers ---the females arrived late!!) but my buttercup has just about drowned me......
.....a friend tried to count them the other day and she came up with over 25...........guess I will be giving some of those away too!!

Had to re-do those too, so only have two kinds this year.

**NicJean** · 09-22-2011, 08:04 AM

pinetree - you can dry the clover flowers for tea, at least! Too bad about poor production (like mine, last year. . .).

**butterflywatcher** · 09-22-2011, 10:20 AM

I've been gardening for years, and even took a Master Gardening class this year at my county extension office! My garden was the worst in years! So far, I only got a handful of tomatoes. I actually asked my neighbor for some of his tomatoes to make salsa. Maybe two peppers from 12 plants, a half gallon size bag of snap beans, about 10 okra pods and a few cucumbers. Our watermelon is still growing, but about the size of a baseball. Very disappointed.

We live in SE Michigan, and I think it was our very cool and rainy spring that lasted till June, then periods of extreme heat. After I give up and pull our tomatoes up, I'm going to amend that soil like crazy and get it ready for next spring and hope for a better outcome.

**never2late** · 09-22-2011, 02:12 PM

We had a cool and rainy spring into June also, and then extreme heat. I had about 20 tomato plants and really didn't get much off of them. Had a hard time keeping watering constant - too wet then too dry. Also I usually plant Wisconsin 55 tomatoes but added a few other varieties this year. The Wisconsin 55 did terrible. Will definitely switch to something else next year. Thankfully I have enough canned from last year. I dehydrated what I did get this year. Pickles did great and so did beans. Not much off my pepper plants though. Still have a few things that look good yet for produce; hope the frost holds off a bit.

**frugalfranny** · 09-24-2011, 05:51 PM

Started picking my buttercup squash............still could be
iffy for my acorn.

Also started pulling some plants up that I could tell were done producing...........all peppers but one plant. They didn't do so great this year.........but have gotten 5 orange peppers so far.

Have picked 17 buttercup so far..............more to go but they weren't quite ready.

**gottadance** · 10-26-2011, 10:35 AM

Wow - some of your gardens sound fantastic. Mine was OK. A decent amount of tomatoes; got my first asparagus; zucchini OK. Cucs died. Rhubarb died - yes, unheard of, usually you can't kill rhubarb. Peppers OK. Beets - awful. Got 15 peaches off of my second-year tree - yay. No plums on my second year plum. Thank God I belong to a CSA.