The summer of 2009 in Cambridge was incredibly rainy. In June alone there were only 4 nice days all month and July was not much better. My garden like many across New England succumbed to the Blight. It destroyed all of my pepper plants and most of my 21 Tomato plants. Some heirlooms seemed resistant to the blight, and the cherry tomatoes did very well.
In addition to the Blight, most of my tomatoes were watery, especially the green and yellow varieties like Green Zebra’s and Lemon Boy’s. The surprise I had in the garden was that I had Bulls Heart Heirloom tomatoes I grew two years ago self propagated and grew in August after the heavy rains. They were delicious and less watery.
So what did well last year given all the rain? It was mostly the green leafy plants.
Basil: The Basil I planted did exceptionally well. With the periodic pruning of pinching the top leaves, my Basil plants were the best they have ever been. The plants were at least 3 feet high yielded great quantities of leaves that resulted in many batches of Pesto that we are still tapping into today. (After making the pesto we placed it into Ice cube containers and then froze.)
Green Swiss Chard: Was very happy this year and we ate it into November.
Cucumbers: The love the water and I had the best yield of them than I ever had.
Lettuce: All lettuce varieties did very well, especially the arugula
Other plants that had an OK year, but nothing spectacular were:
Zucchini: Did well and produced many flowers which are the main thing we love to eat. The challenge we had last year with the Zucchini was that the slugs attack and destroyed the 3 plants I had.
Eggplant did well but not as well as I thought. It was the first year I grew eggplant and I think I may have planted them to close to one another. This year I’ll give them ample room.
Celery, Parsley and Radishes all grew well and very easy to grow and maintain
Bush Beans also did very well year stating from seed and into maturity
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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