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

This is my first year of full raised bed gardening, I am working with hard
clay that was used to raised cotton on until the house was put up some
years ago. I was planting the wastful way land that is until this year and
I desided to go,can't type or spell either,raised beds. mylettice was some
of the best I have grown since I left the sand beds of south
ga. radishes we coun't eat fast eought and they bolted catnip overrunth
tomaters I build for six hight got eight foot highfamily and friends got
tired of tomates still got tomaters  planted 12 vines Ithank God and my
wife who said that I was have to cut back on number of plants next spring
cut back to 6 vines. Hot pepper y'all need some, getting ready to pull
tomatoes plant and redo beds for greens and few other winter type
things.Next year i am going to try some herbs along putting in more beds.
Bill
zone 7 in north Ga










At 06:14 PM 10/3/97 GMT, Judy Cosler wrote:
>>
>>Tomatoes:
>>
>hahaha......i planted 6 different kinds & harvested (to use the term
>loosely!) 2 yellow pear cherry-type tomates.
>
>>Eggplants:
>>
>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.
>>
>>Sweet peppers:
>>
>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:
>>
>no fruits
>
>>Pea:
>>
>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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