My garden fared pretty well this year. As usual, some things did better than others. My two experiments–broccoli rabe and celery–did not pan out. Most of the celery went to seed (though I guess there’s still a chance I’ll get something from it) and the broccoli rabe was devoured by insects. I’ll probably try the broccoli rabe again, but I think I’ll pass on the celery. My garlic took a hit this year. I don’t know what happened with that. Probably 1/3 of it didn’t germinate. But, I plant a lot, so I still got a lot. My tomatoes were doing so-so. I had a bunch that were ripe early this week, but I didn’t get a chance to pick them until after all of the storms. When I went outside, I found most of them had burst on the vine (presumably from all of the water). I was not happy about this. The plum tomatoes came though relatively unscathed, so I froze a bunch of those this week. But, I was really hoping for more tomatoes this year.
Of the three years I planted potatoes, I had the best harvest this year, so I will continue with that practice. My peppers did great. I like to freeze my extras, so you can never have too many. And speaking of too much of a good thing, I had a bumper cucumber crop this year. The past few years, I haven’t had much luck with them, so I planted twice as many as usual this year. Unfortunately for me, this year proved to be a good cucumber year so I had dozens and dozens and dozens of cukes to get rid of this summer. I also got a nice crop of carrots. Carrots are one of my favorite things to harvest because you never know what you’re going to get until you pull them from the ground.
Everything else did fine. I’m trying an experiment for the fall–the other week, I planted some broccoli rabe, beets, carrots, and radishes. We’ll see how that goes. It’s too cold up here to have a 4 season garden, but if I can squeeze in a few extra months, that would make me happy.