How does your Garden grow?

Mine, well it grows in fits and starts. My peppers have done really well. I have more peppers than I know what to do with, excepting my hot peppers which I pot-planted out front (in an effort to prevent cross-polination). My one tomato plant is doing well--giving me plenty of tomato sauce for the freezer.

I lost all of my yellow squash, zuchinni, and spaghetti squash to the bug that bores its way into the stem, eventually killing the plant. Organically grown squashes are really very expensive and I've read that the only way to tame this particularly bug is by pesticide, which would explain the high price on organic squash. Next year I'l start the squash seeds indoors and put them out as soon as I can so that I can get more of a harvest before the bugs set in.

My potatoes were tasty and I got more of a yield than I thought I would considering I never saw them flower and the plants just up and wilted then died. Next year I will plant them traditionally in dirt mounds rather than using hay. Yes, the hay kept me from having to dig for them, but I also think it kept the plants too moist.

Picked my very first eggplant last night. And I have melons setting on the vine.

Mowed my corn under last weekend. It wasn't even knee high yet and when I pulled an ear or two to look at it, was completed demolished by six-legged vermin (Side note here too--have you noticd how expensive organic corn is. My local market sells non-organic corn 5 or 6 ears for a dollar; organic corn is closer to a dollar an ear. So just saying I must not be the only one struggling with corn and squash.)

My peas came and went weeks ago. But in the spirit of lessons learned, next year I will plant far more than I did so that I can have a greater yield. I will also plant more onions and stagger them a bit.

I have reseeded my lettuce and put some winter squash in; acorn and butternut are supposed to be naturally resitant to those squash bugs, so we'll see. If only it would rain a bit where we are.