The growing season ended for the flowers and vegetables, what were you pleased to see that? was surprised to see? was disappointed to see?
I’ll go first. I was pleased to see my new asparagus plants grew like crazy! By fall I had 5 or more stems from each root, and most grew 3feet tall! My parsnips grew like crazy, as did onions … and all root crops except the radishes for the four years in a row. Need to plant them as soon as the ground thaws.
I was surprised to see how my okra grew to four feet. It’s a lesser-known crop, one that is cooked and eaten, not munched raw like carrots. It tasted good in soups or sautéed. I was surprised that my beets grew so perfectly, even the ones that I had not thinned enough.
I was disappointed to see, once again, that I had to fight various blights on my tomatoes. In the “old days” tomatoes kept on growing and producing fruit through September and into October. We covered them with blankets to keep the frost off them. But not anymore. Hail finished everything off right after Labor Day.
How about you?