Garden History

2021 Johnny's Seed Order

2017 Vegetable Garden

Here are the seeds that I did order this year.

Parks see order

2013 Garden Plan

2013 Parks Seed Order

Eggplant and peppers were planted on the side. Both of which did well.
I planted a lot of beans this year but they really didn't do all that well. I will try again next year.
The tomatoes had a real blight problem and along with the birds we did not get too many. But, just about everyone I spoke with said the same thing.
With the warm winter, the hot and very wet spring - the garden just didn't do too well. Hopefully it will be better next year.

This year I did not order tomato or pepper plant seeds. Decided since I used so few plants it didn't make sense to pay so much for the seeds.
But, I am going to try and save some seeds this year for as many plants as possible.

Last year the corn and beans from Park's had very poor germination. If fact, I took the corn out it was so bad that I took it out.
This year I ordered my "most important" seeds from Burpee but I wanted to try Parks again since they are so much cheaper.

2011 Parks Seed Order

Burpee2011 Seed Order - seeds and shipping are both more expensive.

2010 Garden Plan

Seeds ordered on 12/31/2009. Using Parks this year since they are so much cheaper than Burpee. I also plan to order strawberries and do potatoes.

2009 Garden Plan

Did a full box of peppers for roasting. So far I've roasted only four pints but they are quite expensive in the store. Canned a lot of bread and butter pickles. Tried doing dill pickles but they all turned out too soft. Roma tomatoes for salsa - don't think I'll do them again not enough flavor for us. Italian pole beans - too stringy. Bush beans - yummo. Carrots and of course lettuce which so far has produced all summer. Also interplanted onions and leeks to repel pests - seemed to work pretty well. I'd say this has been my most successful garden ever.

2009 Garden Bounty. Cucumbers, zuchinni, roma tomatoes, onions, pepper and leeks were some of the things grown in this years garden. Along with beans and carrots.

Bounty in the pantry. Three different types of salsa, dill, sweet and three different types of bread and butter pickles and roasted peppers have been canned. Several jars of salsa and pickles have already been eaten. There are also frozen beans in the freezer.

2008 Garden Summary

This years garden was good but not as good as I think I can make it. I had too many cucumbers. The peppers did not do very well. And I think you just don't get enough return from peas. I planted them because Kerrie and David requested them but nobody wanted to pick or use them. Not worth my time. The tomatoes were great this year!

Six types of lettuce and spinach

Now pictures of the mature 2008 garden

Beans on pole tower, peppers and corn. The beans did great but the peppers did not produce well this year. I don't know why. The corn was delicious but there wasn't enough!

A bumper crop of tomatoes this year. Marigold heirlooms - did great. The netting is to keep the birds from pecking holes into them before they are ripe.

Corn was really tasseling out!

Ye Olde Garden from 1997 (it was 18' by 40' which is 720 square feet.)

My old garden in 1997.

Corn