I haven't given a garden update in a while, so here goes... My jalapenos did great. Off of just two plants that never got more than a couple feet tall, I probably got 40 or so peppers. Just the right amount of sweet and hot - yum! My tomatoes did pretty good... much better than last year. I lost one of my four plants, but the others kept me in enough tomatoes to eat a few a week all summer, and they still have a few green ones. My lettuce did amazing, but my carrots were pretty lousy - they tasted great, but were tiny and misshapen. I'll plant another batch in a couple weeks when it finally cools off some. I thought my sweet baby watermelons were dead and gone, but one had made a resurgence, and has a few tiny melon buds on it... we'll see if it comes to fruition (pun sort of intended). The strawberries have given me a few amazingly delicious berries, and I think next year will go gangbusters.
That's what's happened. I learned a lot and ate a little. I'll expand some for next year. Thanks to my step-mom's horse operation, I get all the high quality compost I can use. It's so good, they even swap it out to a friend of their with a certified organic small farm.
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I've been amazed and honored by the fact that so many of you take time out of your day to read what I have to say. When I started in May of 2010, I never thought it would get to this level. When I started doing daily (for the most part) posts on Jan. 1 of this year, I was hopeful, but still not sure. Now that we are here, I think it is time to grow more. Readership had a couple of big spikes from links to some of the major blogs, and I've been pretty steady for a couple of months, but I think we can do better.
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My garden do about the ssame as yours. It has been a learning year for gardening for me and my friend. Next year after some soil amendments and a good tilling I think that we will see much better crops come in. That is why they say that you need to know what you are doing before SHTF and not during it. Good to hear about the blog. I read it often.
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