I started out the year with some spring crops.
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Spinach |
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Mesclun greens |
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Peas |
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And beets. |
Following spring was a fallow period while life got crazy. Then I planted tomatoes (no picture - it was not a tomato year for me) as well as
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Basil (now pesto) |
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And astonishingly large kohlrabi. |
I attempted to plant a fall crop of spinach but sowed too late, so I revised and planted garlic instead. (That's not technically a 2011 crop, since it'll come up in the spring.)
Not bad growing all this from two of these:
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Self-watering container |
But I bet I can do more next year. :) What did you grow this summer?
All my fall crops got eaten by cabbage caterpillars. If you try any next year, make some garlic spray to kill them - lesson learned. :)
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Thanks, Eva! Good to know. :)
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