What We Grew in 2014

This year we grew a bit of everything. Some successfully, some not so much.

 Tomatoes:

We had so many tomatoes and peppers that we borrowed little one's bucket 

all summer and fall to collect them. 

Cherry Type:

• Risentraube-2 plants
• Super Sweet 100-2 plants (our only hybrid tomato)
• Black Cherry-3 plants
• Blondkopfchen-2 plants
• Roma Volunteer- 2 plants (also had several volunteers)
• Green Zebra -2 plants (but one died during transplant)--I HATE this tomato. It always produces poorly.

Beefsteaks:

• Cherokee Purple - 3 plants (but one died during transplant)
• Brandywine -3 plants

Regular:

• Sub-Artic Plenty 3 plants-supposed to be super early tomato. Later than the regular ones. Super lame.
• Black Krim - 3 plants
• Paul Robeson-3 plants
• Arkansas Traveler-3 plants (lost one in transplant)
• Dakota Gold - 2 plants (lost one in transplant. Poor yields on remaining one)
• Purple Fleshed Orange Smudges - 3  plants(cross politated with the Costolutos and became very ribby and interesting looking)
• Costoluto Genoveses-3 plants

Other:

• Green Verde Tomatillo (2 plants)--I thought these would be fun for the little one to "open" but the inside skin is sticky. Toddler loved them, called them "apple tomatoes"--mom not so much.

Peppers:

• California wonder -3 plants (hybrid)
• Beaver Dam -2 plants
• Red Minis-5 plants
• Garden Sunshine-2 plants
• Orange Bell-5 plants
• Quadrato D'Asti (yellow) -5 plants --These were HUGE. Bigger than my hand.
• Black Hungarian -1 plant
• Banana -2  plants(hybrid)
• Pepperocinio-1  plants(hybrid)

Eggplant:

• Pandora Striped -3 plants
• Ping Tung-3 plants
• Rosa Bianca -3 plants

Brassicas:

These were all started from seed and were pretty much all lost causes except for the kohlrabi (which still ended up being too pungent and yucky).

• Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli
• Romanesco  Broccoli
• Snowball Self-Blanching Cauliflower
• Jersey Cabbage
• Golden Acre
• White Vienna Kohlrabi
• Purple Kohlrabi

Alliums:

• Giant Musselburgh Leeks
• American Flag Leeks (We had a good leek crop, but I'm not sure which of the two produced them.  I think it was the musselburghs)
• Red onions--didn't produce
• Shallots (Which we actually got about 4!!) 
• Garlic Chives (they're everwhere!!!!)

Lettuces and Greens:

• Rainbow Lights Chard
• Burpee's Rhubarb Chard
• Red Romaine Lettuce
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
• Burpee Gourmet Mesclun Blend Lettuce
• Southern Giant Curled Green Mustard
• Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach
• Monstrueux De Viroflay Spinach  (Both bolted before we could use any)

Beans and Peas:

 

 

• Royalty Purple Podded Beans
• Calima Beans
• Roquetfort Wax beans
• Bush Lima (disappointment)
• Dragon Tongue Beans
• Queen Anne Sugar Peas
• Burpee Sugar Peas
• Burpee Shelling Peas (these were yucky)

Root Veggies:

• Laurentian Rutabaga (only got one) 
• Parsienne Carrots
• Nantes Carrots
• Short 'n Sweet Carrots
• Hollow Crown Parsnip (from own seed)
• Golden Beets
• Early Wonder Beets
• Cylindra Beets

Herbs and Flowers:

I had planned on starting a large herb garden with six kinds of basil and many other things, but I didn't get to  these sadly.

• We planted about 5 Tiger Mix Sunflowers that were very pretty. 
• Our lime basil from the previous year came back from seed.
• Our potted, mystery oregano produced very well (mostly through neglect).