winners for 2008 included:
- bush delicata, they grew like crazy! of course, having six plants helped.
- sungold & black plum tomotoes. now added to my new favorites.
- lipstick cayenne peppers and purple jalapenos.
- purple podded beans. a prolific as the green ones i bought but way tastier.
losers for 2008:
- cucumbers. they got completely blotted out by my peppers and delicata.
- beets, spinach, kohlrabi and chard, all totally failed!
- eggplant. first couple grew like gangbusters, then everything became stunted.
- early girl tomatoes, not early. long keepers, barely grew. green zebras, kept splitting!
- quarto di asto peppers, grew one, never ripened, never grew more.
- butternut squash and acorn squash, grew maybe four each and lost at least two of those chickens.
- melons, never grew larger than a tennis ball.
- basil, got swamped by the tomatoes.
- peas...were an afterthought and performs as such.
everything else performed marginally well. no massive infestations aside from bermuda grass and chickens. i didn't space my carrot planting out enough and i didn't harvest my parsnips before the ground froze. i let the cilantro and dill bolt too early, never planted my potatoes and didn't harvest my beans fast enough.
for this coming year i've avoided what failed, branched out a little and am hoping to learn from my mistakes and follow through on my plans in a timely manner.
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