I guess I should have started this way back in May when I first planted my garden. It would have helped me to track how everything was growing so that I can make changed from year to year. We bought our plants from Concord Foods in Vaughan. They were planted on May 26th, 2010. The entire summer has been extremely hot and humid and very little rain. We've had to water a lot, as the plants are look rather distressed by the end of the day.
Peas - This year we planted Snow Peas. They were planted on the right end of the garden. They did ok but not as well as last year. We only got a handful of peas. Once the heat of the summer came we got a few smaller peas. Our 2nd crop did not produce at all. Strangely enough we planted all of the peas from the same package with all of the flowers being white and one plant had purple flowers. We shall see what becomes of this lone purple flowering pea plant.
Tomatoes - This year we planted 4 Roma Tomato plants on the back right side of the garden. They so far have produced rather well. We have harvested 3 nice sized tomatoes and the taste was nice. They tasted far better than last year's bitter cherry tomatoes.
Lettuce - We planted Romane Lettuce along the front right side of the garden. We only got a few plants even thought we planted many seeds. I'm not sure what happened. The lettuce was harvested and the taste was strong and a little bitter but ok with salad dressing on it.
Carrots - We planted a full packet of carrot seeds and we may have 5 very small carrot tops. I highly doubt that they will actually produce an actual carrot. Next year no carrots!
Cucumbers - We planted two different kinds of cucumbers. The first type were the Long English Telegraph Cucumbers. So far they have produced two very nice sized cucumbers and the taste was very nice and not too many seeds. Then the 2nd type was the shorter variety with many seeds. Unfortunately this kind has only produced short stumpy little cucumbers. The taste is good but the plants are not holding up well to the intense heat and humidity. Some of the leaves of both types of cucumber plants have yellow spots on them.
Zucchini - This year I planted two different types of zucchini. The 1st type is the regular green zucchini that in August is just starting to produce fruit. I've had 3 zucchini so far that grew to about 7 inches in lengeth. The growth was very slow at first. We had far too many male flowers and hardly any female flowers. The 2nd type was the Yellow Zucchini. They are growing much slower and so far in August we have only had two yellow zucchinis produced. The skin on them are more tough and the fruit produced are not as big. Next year only green zucchini.
Squash - This year we tried something totally new for our garden...squash. We had no idea how to grow it but so far it's the best producing thing in the entire garden. We planted Acorn Squash and, as of yet, unidentified squash that was a mislabelled plant from the garden store. It could possibly be a spagetti squash if it turns yellow. I'll keep you posted and will take photos if anyone would be so kind to identify my garden mystery.
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