Back in April, we planted some carrot seeds. Throughout the summer, I periodically pulled a couple, but they were always very small. So eventually, I just left them alone. Finally, this fall, I pulled up the rest and here's what we got:
They look a bit more like beets than carrots.
Since the growing season was ending, I was going to pull up the rest of the garden, but then I found this little pumpkin growing.
Hard to believe that little thing was growing in this mess!
Here's the tomato plant that started growing tomatoes in September after the wind knocked it on it's side.
That pretty much wraps up this year's garden. I transplanted the herbs into containers and brought them inside. We'll have to come up with some new things to grow next year and give it another go.
This is what I harvested from the garden today. For gardeners who know what they're doing, a small cucumber, even smaller carrots, and funny looking tomatoes may not be a great harvest (at least the squash are respectable), but, I'm not a gardener that knows what I'm doing. For all the trouble we've had this year, this is great!
One of the squash plants died before it got in the ground. Okay, I broke the stem. I watched the zucchini plants and one squash plant wilt and die only to find out that I should have been doing something to get rid of the bugs crawling all over them. I think this year it has been squash bugs 154, Emily 2. One of the tomato plants just up and died one night. I thought the cucumbers were being eaten by the bugs that took the zucchini plants, but then I realized that I should have just been watering them. Oops.
Despite my noviceness, there are some bright spots. The herbs (basil, mint, lemon thyme) are all doing well (aside from a small lack of water), one tomato plant has finally starting producing tomatoes, the surviving squash plants are kicking out some stellar squash, and we got some good cucumbers before I deprived them of water.
All in all, it has been a good learning year for the garden. I'm looking forward to tackling some new things next year. Rhubarb anyone?
