A quick rundown on our harvest so far this year.
Posted by Reagan on 18 Aug 2008 at 05:52 pm | Tagged as: General, Gardening
Our garden hasn’t done TOO bad, but this being our first year in Iowa, I don’t have anything to compare it to. Colorado gardening is quite a bit different. Plus Two Barn Farm being 9 miles away right now, I can’t give it the attention I usually do. I haven’t watered this year. The garden also looks a bit like the “lazy” version of organic (ie. weedy).
My results so far:
Miserable failure:
Heirloom Tomatoes
Healthy Red Bell Peppers
Green Bell Peppers
Banana Peppers
Blackeyed Peas
Only slightly better than failure:
Jalapenos (harvested 2 each about 1″ long)
Spaghetti Squash (harvested 3 small, 3 more on vine)
Edamame (I think enough will make it to have a small snack)
Sweet Corn (2 ears harvested, haha!)
Giant Pumpkins
Melons
Moderate success:
Potatoes
Zucchini
Yellow Summer Squash
Pickling Cucumbers
Heinz Tomatoes
Cauliflower (plants are looking good, we’ll see)
Major Success:
Roma Tomatoes
Onions (Copra, Walla Walla and Red Burgermaster)
Leeks
Snow Peas
Spinach
Butterhead
Crisphead
Sunflowers
Although, I think I am getting a pretty decent harvest from my tomatoes, the plants are REALLY REALLY small. In Colorado my plants were usually around 6 feet tall. Also, I have started canning tomatoes way earlier than in Colorado.
I think the cucumbers need to be bumped up a notch. The lower than expected crop was due to 3 plants being ripped out of the ground when the tornado took out the barn. The rest of the vines amaze me every day.
Don’t worry about the garden too much this year. I think the weather did us all in. We usually have beautiful peppers of all sorts - bell, cayenne, jalapeno, Thai, etc. - but not this year. I think the spring was just too wet and cool. Sweet corn was way late all over central Iowa as well. Hang in there. Next year should be better.