Mine did OK with some plants, not so great with others.
Tomatoes: For the first time, I planted all heirloom varieties. I knew going into it that some varieties are pickier than others, so this probably wasn’t a good choice for a lazy gardener such as myself. However, I still have a good amount of tomatoes, I’m just not flooded with them like I have been in the past. There are still quite a few coming along though! I should consider myself lucky though, because my neighbors’ tomatoes were completely dismal this year.
My bell peppers did better this year than usual, but out of six plants I’ll probably get no more than 5 peppers. Last year I think I only got two, and they were very small.
I planted two eggplants, one Japanese variety and one regular. So far only one long, skinny, Japanese eggplant. The other plant flowered a lot, but that was it.
My zucchini was disappointing too. Lots of blossoms that just fell off the plants. I’ve had two zucchini from one plant and one from the other.
Strawberries, once again, were all eaten by chipmunks before they ripened.
This was the first year I planted herbs other than basil and oregano. The oregano did well, but the basil never took off AND was eaten up by beetles. I grew the herbs in a different bed, so maybe need to fertilize better next year. The parsley got huge, but the dill got destroyed by bugs. I didn’t want to spray with anything because those two herbs were planted as host plants for swallowtail butterflies (we did find one caterpillar!). The sage is doing OK, but the marjoram…not so much.
Next year, I will go back to mainly plum tomatoes and maybe one heirloom variety. I’ll try to prep the herb garden a bit better, give up on eggplant because we really don’t even like it that much.
Oh, all the flowers I tried to grow died ages ago. Flowers hate me.