Goodbye Garden

one of our favorite things about this new apartment we moved into is that we have a (small but much appreciated) back patio/garden area. we pulled up some of the ground bricks and built two small gardens:

we planted mostly seedlings
and they grew! this is our first tomato, which we gave to marley because squirrels had taken a big bite out of it.
the squash plants (yellow crookneck and zucchini) produced more flowers than anything else.
i used them to make a salad. delicious, delicate flavor. yum.

it was a learning experience. here were our results:

7 cucumber plants from seed - yield: 1 cucumber (total)

10 pepper plants from seedling - yield: about 3 small shriveled peppers

4 zucchini plants from seedling - yield: about 5 zucchini.

4 yellow squash from seedling - yield: about 3 small squash.

2 basil plants from seedling - yield: 2 off-the-hook basil plants that are still producing (despite a recent bug infestation)

4 tomato plants from young plant - yield: dozens of juicy delicious tomatoes.

10 attempted chard plants from seed - yield: 3 resurrected chard plants that have just begun to really grow

so far, we would only do basil and tomatoes again. we think we packed the garden way too much, and the plants choked each other out. next time we will try the less-is-more approach.

this morning i planted more chard, to see if we can get it going this time. we'll see!