My tomatoes grew wonderfully. I have more cherry tomatoes than I would normally buy in a three years. Maya loves cherry tomatoes and it's great having an endless supply. My roma tomatoes have grown beautifully too - I love having fresh tomatoes to eat all summer long! I even attempted canning some last weekend and I got 5 jars of diced tomatoes. I know, that's a pitiful quantity to you canning experts, but I felt good about it as my first attempt.
I wanted to plant some herbs but the only one I got as a seedling was parsley. It grew super well but I hardly used it! Maybe I'll have to figure out how to dry and preserve it before winter comes... If you look closely in the below photo you can see my basil to the right of the parsley. Basil was the main herb that I wanted but I had to grow it from seed. I only got 2 plants and neither grew very big. Next year I'll get that growing much earlier in the year and plant a lot more of it so I have a chance to fulfill all of my summer basil needs.
The rest of my harvest was not quite so abundant...My hobbit-sized capsicum (it didn't even do one whole salad)
The largest and smallest of my beet root
Teeny tiny carrots
Largest and more typical-sized strawberries. I got about 6 mushy strawberries in total, but I am optimistic they'll do better in the years to come.
3 comments:
It's a good start, Emma. I find however little we get of our own produce, it's always very satisfying to eat. We had quite a lot of cherry tomatoes too. We have also had some tasty cabbages, although the slugs got a lot of them. We are hoping for better things with the Brussels sprouts.
I'm impressed for your first garden. I'm attempting my first garden this year too.
Good job, Em. It's exciting, isn't it?
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