Category Archives: Misadventures in Gardening

Learning to garden, one failure at a time

Spring Planting 2017

This is the first entry in our attempt at city people gardening.  Our 2017 spring garden consisted of the following:

Spring 2017 Garden
Better Boy Tomato Grew very large, produced tomatoes through mid July
Better Bush Tomato Produced tomatoes through early July, crowded out by Better Boy.
Red Bell Pepper Very few peppers were produced, and those were eaten by squirrels.
Poblano Good production.
Japanese Eggplant Grew very large, lots of eggplant production.
Jalapeno Produced very well.

Lessons learned:  One large tomato plant is enough in the garden.  Better bush produced last year well into the fall, but didn’t survive because of proximity to Better Boy this year. Japanese eggplant takes up a lot of space, and unless you really like eggplant, it produces way too much.

Fall garden coming soon!