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Re: So how did my garden grow in '97?

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>Tomatoes:
>
hahaha......i planted 6 different kinds & harvested (to use the term
loosely!) 2 yellow pear cherry-type tomates.

>Eggplants:
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from 4 plants, i currently have one turd-shaped eggplant, the size &
shape of my big toe.  it's been like that for over a month.
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>Sweet peppers:
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planted maybe 5 different kinds.  got about 6 banana peppers.  there
is one black pepper on one plant, a very small, misshapen pepper at
that.  that's all.  fair amount of flowers!!

>My spring was exceedingly cold and wet; here in the mid-Atlantic everybody
>who put their tomatoes into the ground before May 20 lost everything.  I
>couldn't even seed my spinach or lettuce until April 23--unthinkably late in
>view of how it gets real hot suddenly here.
>
>I had a hodgepodge of 2 different mezclun mixtures going

>Cucumbers:
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no fruits

>Pea:
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they just died out.

Beans
planted 2 kinds of pole beans.  i invented a new kind of 3-bean salad
from the 3 beans produced!>

Herbs (from seedlings)
rosemary did well
sage looks ok
thyme ok
mint good (yeah!! at least i can grow weeds!)
flat parsley good
basil some did well, others not so well; not enuf for pesto & usually
I make tons of pesto!
taragon - have replanted 2 or 3 times - keeps dying out

lettuces, failures

limas - none

even my sweet peas & nasturiums didn't make it, but this was probably
the site i chose.

lemon grass - alive, but not big fat clumps - does that take a few
years??

radishes - you could see them with a magnifying glass!!!

carrots, a little bigger than the radishes.

weather same as Janet's

overall, a HUGE disappointment!!!!!!!!  if i hadn't gardened
successfully b4, i would give it up & put my black thumb onto more
successful endeavors!!!

you know, i buy most of my produce at the Farmer's Market & i can't
say that I had a single tomato that was what could be described as
"that" tomato of the season!!  certainly better than winter tomatoes,
but NOT WONDERFUL!!!!  Sweet corn, strawberries, peaches were
excellent!

however, i did get so discouraged, that i didn't feed enuf.  new beds
which i didn't think even needed that much fud, because i had added a
whole bunch of compost, manure etc when i mixed the soil.  but you can
see that the eggplant foilage looks anemic (all discolored, light,
uneven colored) the tomato plants didn't have enuf foilage - next year
i'm not going to tim off the suckers; i was growing these upright on a
net type of structure.

anyway, 1996 was definitely NOT a success for me!!

Judy Cosler

Judy (zone 7, close-in SS, MD)
to e-mail me:  jcosler@mindspring.com

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