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Re: The Changing Weather

Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

I have been wanting to drop a line, but the list was so quiet ... I
thought I'd do a recap of my gardening season and perhaps get some tips
for next year.

My pole beans ... tasted great, but many of them never climbed.  I tried
to help them, but only a few on each end of the row reached up and
climbed.  I picked them often enough, but missed alot of those that
didn't climb, and they pretty much stopped producing.  I wonder what I
did wrong, and why they didn't climb.

My beets did nothing!    It seemed, though, that the outer leaves would
die, then the inner ones would grow a few inches but die when they got to
a certain height, like 3 inches ... finally they just withered, and one
day I looked for them and they were gone.

My cabbages were so full of holes, I gave up.  They got to be about a
softball times 1.5 big.  Whatever bugs got into them really had a feast.

Not much produce from the tomatoes, and they never got as tall as I
would've expected.  We did get some lusious fruit though ... love those
garden fresh tomatoes.

Swiss chard did fine, but I didn't plant enough.  

Peppers did the best of all my plants.

Cukes did fine, but again, not as fruitful as I would've expected.

My carrots did real well, whereas other years I got these tiny roots! 
That was fun.

This is my second year, and while the above might not seem very
encouraging, it was much better than the previous year!  I am learning so
much.  I have never put anything into my soil, and now I am composting. 
I am going to be pulling the plants this weekend (a frost killed what was
left), and putting some compost and manure in -- prepare it for next
year.

I look forward to planning my garden for next year in upstate NY's most
depressing month - February!

Deb
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