2010 Growing Season

So the growing season is pretty much here, we are just about to plant, I have started seeds, and of course the garden is twice the size it should be. Oh well. The goal is still to do almost no hard work so we will see. Last year my blog stopped at about 2/3 through the season, so I thought I would post the pictures of what we ended up with. to the right is a small fraction of the cherry tomato I picked, total 5lbs of dried fruit.

To give you a little scale there is the garden at the end of the season with my son in the middle of it, this was taken pretty much at the end of the season. That's corn behind him, 40 ears and these guys grew in 6 inches of dirt. Corn was interesting because I never really noticed that for 4/5 of the season your growing sticks, the ears set at the very end.
We ended up with about 50 cucumbers as well, I took them out toward the end, but in their heyday this is what they looked like. I companion planted them with morning glory to attract bees and so forth. They looked pretty good and got about twice the size you see here. Then there were the peppers, I picked probably 50-60 fresh for grilling and at the end of the season
I dried and strung 4 rings of peppers, which end-to-end equals about 9 feet of peppers "shoulder to shoulder"

This year I have promised myself to journal (blog) the garden once a week at least. I am seed saving as well as preserving this year for 2012 (hopefully) will be a product of the 2011 garden. We will see.