Let’s see where we’re at so far!
Successes
- Identified 270+ plants
- Added new native shade beds
- Grew Thai chili peppers, leutshauer paprika peppers, cushaw pumpkin, asparagus, sugar snap peas, beets, cherry tomatoes, Italian heirloom tomatoes, blackberries, raspberries and cherries
Things I’ll try again
- Dividing hostas (missed the fall timeframe)
- Testing and amending the soil for blueberries
- Fertilizing blueberries (earlier in spring this time)
- Harvesting rhubarb (yep, totally missed it)
- Pruning grapes (I chickened out and didn’t do it last spring)
- Pulling poison ivy and bindweed
Things I won’t try again
- Growing ground cherries–no sense in it if I don’t eat them
- Frying green tomatoes–yuck!
- Baking a pumpkin pie–not worth the effort
- Letting weeds grow taller than I am (I’m talking to you, pokeweed, burnweed, and spiny amaranth)
- Fancy colored tomatoes (ok maybe someday, but I don’t really love tomatoes and if they don’t turn red I can’t tell if they’re ripe)
Seeds I’ve saved (though, what to do with so many?)
- American Germander
- Anise hyssop
- Basil and Thai basil
- Bluebill clematis and fancy clematis
- Blue false indigo
- Cardinal flower
- Foxglove beardtongue
- Honeyvine
- Ox-eye false sunflower
- Orange coneflower
- Purple coneflower
- Purple, pink and blue morning glory
- Northern sea oats
- Swamp rose mallow
- Zinnia
