Hard frost last night. I covered the sugar snap peas, and I think they made it. They are blossoming so perhaps we'll get one last crop before winter. The Swiss Chard I did not cover, yet it still looks pretty good wouldn't you say? How am I going to eat all of this?
I tore down the rest of the beds, planting garlic where 2011 tomatoes were. Farthest bed south, east side, running parallel to the equator we'll have 2 rows of Spanish Roja, 2 rows of German Porcelain, 1 row of Musik and 2 Elephant garlic bulbs. This bed has a little room left, maybe I'll pick up one more bulb of Musik. Mulched with grass for now, but hoping to find some leaves. The past cold, windy days have blown all of our leaves from our yard.
Trimmed up the Mulberry by the kitchen window so the birds still have shelter but it doesn't hit the house when the wind blows. We do enjoy watching the birds in this tree. It seems to be their staging area before flying to the feeder.
Trimmed up the Birch, although I probably wasn't as aggressive as I should have been.
On my list to grow next year, (besides garlic of course);
Tomatoes- the grape tomatoes did really well, and the Romas weren't a total loss. I'm not discouraged and will keep trying.
Swiss Chard and Spinach - skip the lettuce. Its not as good nutritionally and it bolts so quickly
Squash - I wasn't too successful but I'll try again. Maybe I should go back to growing it vertically?
Popcorn - I've never grown corn before, but DH thought it would fun to have our own homegrown popcorn. I'll give it a try.
Cucumbers - I only tried one plant in 2011, but I enjoyed eating the cukes we got off of it. Will add more plants next year and try growing vertically.
Sugar Snap Peas - always a must! Garden candy! This time I will use a different support structure. Maybe tee pees next year!
Sunflowers - The 2 we had this year were cheerful, but late. Plant along privet and around deck.
3 comments:
I hear so many good things about Swiss Chard. I even saw it baked into "chips" that are supposed to be very good. http://www.urbanorganic.com/node/608
One local home school family grows alot of their plants vertically, this past summer they had tomatoes, cucumbers, squash. beans , peas and even some gourds all growing up on nets they had staked in the garden. They asked for volleyball nets on free cycle and they ended up with 6 of them, enough to use in their garden
Your garden sounds wonderful
I love hearing about your garden. We don't have anywhere to put one. I'm not having much luck planting veggies in pots.
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