The garden is officially dug up, the tomatoes are but a memory, the eggplant eaten, and the stinking non-tomatilloing tomatillo plant has left the neighborhood for good. Below are some details...
This is all that's left of the last haul. Beautifully photographed, then systematically devoured. The green zebra's won the petit jardin challenge. They were tasty, tart, beautiful, and I could ignore them and they rewarded me handsomely. (If only everything could be this easy). The cherokees were a disappointment, I got only 4, they tasted terrific, but left me wanting more. The yellow pears will be a garden staple for the rest of my gardening years (bold statement, I know...I am very young), but they were amazingly prolific and tasty, tasty, tasty. Tomatillos, as subtly alluded to above, were a disappointment. I had the most gorgeous huge plant, that constantly had blooms, and I got 2 tomatillos. Total. 2. This plant was freaking HUGE, you can probably gather that I was a bit annoyed. I will continue with the canopy contraption next year, and I will use the awesome purple cages my mom bought me, but I will prune. A lot. The non-pruning was, I believe, not good for my yield. I knew it was an experimental year, so I chalk it up to learning.
This is all that's left of the last haul. Beautifully photographed, then systematically devoured. The green zebra's won the petit jardin challenge. They were tasty, tart, beautiful, and I could ignore them and they rewarded me handsomely. (If only everything could be this easy). The cherokees were a disappointment, I got only 4, they tasted terrific, but left me wanting more. The yellow pears will be a garden staple for the rest of my gardening years (bold statement, I know...I am very young), but they were amazingly prolific and tasty, tasty, tasty. Tomatillos, as subtly alluded to above, were a disappointment. I had the most gorgeous huge plant, that constantly had blooms, and I got 2 tomatillos. Total. 2. This plant was freaking HUGE, you can probably gather that I was a bit annoyed. I will continue with the canopy contraption next year, and I will use the awesome purple cages my mom bought me, but I will prune. A lot. The non-pruning was, I believe, not good for my yield. I knew it was an experimental year, so I chalk it up to learning.
I think next year I will have a substantially smaller garden. Space-wise it'll be the same, but I got overwhelmed and drowned out some of the plants by over planting. And the season was a little rough, I thought it was me, but it turns out most of the backyard gardeners I know had challenges with lots of rain/draught/hot/cool/stormy/icky weather to battle. So the plan for petit jardin 2011 is 4 tomato plants, a few peppers, 2 rosa bianco eggplants, an artichoke or 2, a cucumber and some okra. And maybe some spinach. And beets. Oh, and lettuce. And perhaps carrots.
Oh crap.
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