This Year (2009)

In spring when it comes to the garden hope springs eternal. Even though we have only had marginal success with tomatoes the last 2 or 3 years and no success with watermelons I have dedicated the most space in my garden to these two plants. We have the following plants or seeds planted in our garden this year (so far):

• tomatoes
• bell peppers
• jalapenos
• zucchini squash
• yellow crookneck squash
• watermelons
• radishes
• carrot
• onion
• grape
• navel orange
• passion fruit
• grapefruit - we don't anticpate fruit as this tree is very young
• apple - new - we don't anticipate fruit this year.
• peach - new - we don't anticipate fruit this year.

These are pictures from our garden this year taken after the rain yesterday:

Last Year

Last year (2008) was a pretty good year in our garden. Here is a list of the many fruits and vegetables we had in our garden last year:

Note: The numbers indicate how successful we were with each of the items.
0 = We had a plant or plants but no fruit
1-4 marginal production, either the harvest was really small or the fruit that was produced was of poor quality and may not have been edible
5-10 = successful with 5 being good and 10 indicating prolific production with more than enough to share.

Spring and Summer:

• onions 10
• yellow crookneck squash 10
• zucchini squash 10
• scallop squash 7
• corn 2
• cucumbers 2
• Japanese eggplant 10
• tomatoes 4
• jalapeno peppers 4
• okra 10
• carrots 8
• grapes 8
• passion fruit 8
• cantelope 2
• watermelon 0
• snow peas 4
• basil 10
• sunflowers (seeds) 9
• navel orange 0
• grapefruit 0

Fall and Winter:

• lettuce 6
• cabbage 6
• brussell sprouts 4
• broccoli 9
• basil 10
• jalapeno peppers 8
• Japanese Egg Plant 5