The squash lasted very well and we didn’t finish the last one until spring. It waited until the very last to make any fruits but we did end up getting a decent amount of very large squash. Pumpkin Rumbo Hybrid This squash made huge vines all over the yard. Squash Summer Medley Hybrid Blend Got some zucchini from these but mildew killed them off early. It seemed like some flowers may not have been getting pollinated. Cucumber Alibi A few cucumbers but not a lot. Bean Kentucky Blue A few beans but I think some critter was eating them because they never seemed to grow many leaves. Just to keep a record, the seeds we got were: Eggplant Hansel Hybrid Maybe one or two eggplants. We ordered seeds from Park Seeds a bit too late in the season (and then it took a while for them to be delivered) so we got a bit of a late start. We got a few berries but the small ones were a bit too small to have many buds and many of the larger one’s berries were eaten by birds.
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We kept them in big pots full of peat moss and pine bark.
We also impulse purchased a blueberry bush and bought a few more off a farm in New Jersey. We got maybe a dozen strawberries per day from a handful of alpines (when the birds didn’t eat them). The alpine strawberries were pretty cool with some tiny red, white and yellow strawberries. The guy running that website has a lot of nice videos and information on alpine strawberries and sold us some really nice plants. We picked up a few alpine strawberries from the Strawberry Store. It worked well except the bamboo broke a couple times and messed up any plants depending on them for support. I used my vaguely remembered lashing and knot skills from Boy Scouts to make up some bamboo and twine trellises and tied off plants to them. Driving home in a rented miniSUV with bamboo sticking 10 feet out the rear window was pretty funny. Tomato cages seemed expensive so we tried picking up some bamboo off craigslist. It seemed to work quite well no weeds and the plants were some of our best growers. We mixed some of the compost with a bunch of old leaves and peat moss and put the plants in directly. We also tried a little lasagna gardening (throw down newspaper/cardboard over grass, add a bunch of compostable stuff on top) in one bed. It was pretty good compost except you get a fair amount of plastic garbage bits scattered in it and I’m not sure whether or not the wilt problems we ran into came from the compost.
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We picked up a $20 truck full and a bunch of free garbage cans full of compost from the compost center at Fairmount park. We formed the bales into hollow rectangles so we could fill in the centers with compost. The straw bales worked pretty well except they dry out fairly fast and it was a pretty dry summer so we had to water often. Since we needed to improve the soil anyway we figured we’d try straw bale gardening and picked up a truck full of straw. The dirt in our yard didn’t seem particularly attractive so we wanted to try some sort of cheap raised beds.
It’s a couple years later so some of this might be a bit vague. Seems like I had better write this all down before I totally forget. I was just ordering seeds for the spring season and trying to remember what I had grown in previous years.
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