9/12/19
Garden notes for next year:
Plant lots more zukes and yellow squash. Got like, two yellows and no zukes.
Pumpkins great, think I'll have six, but vines are everywhere. Decide whether to plant. (Spray for powdery mildew early.)
Sugar baby watermelons have three ones that will probably get ripe. ☺️🍉 Compact vines, too. Plant more.
Spindly cucamelons vines took off and climbed everything, but they are small-vined, produce well, and Youngest likes. Plant again.
Plant lots more carrots. Purple potatoes were fun. Beans did good, peas too. Long beans grew so slow, they never produced. Why?
Less cherry tomatoes and more for canning/cooking. (But plant enough cherries to share.) Youngest's favorite were the cherry roma mix. (Though we got all reds). The red cherries were sweeter than the blue "berries," but everything cracked a lot. Maybe from rain. Did not see any "blue gold berries"? Yellow pears were hiding in the "weed" section. The roma type tomatoes seemed to last longest before blight or something hit vines. The deep planting ones took off first.
Got lots of ground cherries, though a mouse or something is eating some. But plant more! Ground cherry pie! Ground cherry jam! All the ground cherries!
Big marigolds and zinnias get BIG. Space them out. (Butterflies 🦋 and bumblebees 🐝 love 💙 them 🌻! Anise hyssop, too!)
I *think* one of the ground cherry types has more upright form and bigger berries (unless it was sun placement). Ones on left...try to figure if that was Aunt Molly's or Niagara (?).