If you have been sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for another garden update post, this is for you, bestie. <3
Since my only other garden post this year at the beginning of July, the tomatos grew nicely. This area is all cherry tomato plants, and then we have one roma tomato plant in a pot. We have been very lucky and had a ton of cherry tomatos this year! Probably our best tomato crop ever.
The potatos did ok..... I sort of expected more. I think we need to add more dirt to this bed next year and make it deeper. I forgot to weigh the tater haul, but we probably made our money back in what we paid for the bag of organic seed potatots that we planted.
Potatos above, potato plants before the kids ripped them up below.
The Mister planted some sweet peas for me. When I was a kid my mom always planted a ton of these in our backyard, and when I was in grades 3 and 4 she would cut little bouquets for me to take to my teachers. I'm sure that made me look like a sucky kid, but whatever! Sweet peas make me think of my mom.
Here's what we harvested that day. Lets see, what else - the rhubarb went hard early in the season and then dramatically died off. I know rhubarb is an early harvest, but our evil plant usually keeps giving and giving much longer than this year. I'm sure the heat and smoke did it no favors. The blueberry plant only ever produced a couple of handfuls of berries, but it is new, so maybe that was to be expected. The kale did not grow. The zucchini did not grow. We do have some pepper plants in a planter box with small peppers on them, maybe as long as your thumb? I wanted to give them more time to grow, but it's getting cold at night, so we might pick them soon. The lettuce bolted early. We did get 2 small cucumbers that were pretty tasty. The herbs were pretty stunted. I'm sure it's mostly due to the terrible heat and fires we had this summer, but I think we will have to add some new dirt and fertilizer next year to try to boost things. Maybe this winter I will become obsessed with garden tik toks to fill my time.
