Around late July, we began to enjoy some of the fruits of our labor (literally) as far as gardening was concerned. Although it was a very warm summer, it was also very wet in the beginning. I think this may have made it a not really great year for tomatoes. A lot of ours rotted on the vine before ever ripening. And they were only OK-tasting. Don't get me wrong, they were much better than anything you'd buy in a grocery store, but they just weren't as good as we'd gotten in the past.
We got tons of peppers though, and it seemed to be a great year for them. The eggplant also fared well.
We planted a melon plant, not knowing at all what we'd get. It only grew two tiny melons all summer! But I was really proud of them anyway.
Our raspberry bushes bore fruit in early summer and again in the fall. Mostly, we just ate the berries right off the plants.
We made a lot of fresh salsa, TONS of tomato-basil-mozzarella oven-baked sandwiches (my favorite!!), lots of green beans, and I routinely ate green pepper strips and cherry tomatoes as quick easy snacks in my lunches. I wouldn't call it a great year for our garden, but it wasn't bad, either.
One of the reasons I really want a place with a yard is so that I could have a garden as well! The balcony at our apartment is too small. The balcony at the condo would work, but we're never here to take care of things. So, I have to live vicariously through your garden!
ReplyDelete