What I grew in 2015

 

Beans: Rabbits and birds got into the beds twice and ate the starts.  Restarted late. [Dvds on strings really scared the birds away!]

• Red Chinese long beans - Got original seed from BC.  Now I use our saved seed from 2014.
• Dragon Tongue: One survived [our saved seed from 2014]  
• Freshette green bean.  Got the seed from Rural King. 
• Kentucky Wonder Pole beans:  Flat and strings.   Prolific.

Cucumber

• Telegraph: These are my favorite.  Long and smooth.   Great for soup.
• Sikkim Cucumber:  Remember to let this get brown and crackled looking.
• Boston Pickling Cucumber:  Pick small.

Eggplant:  Another bad year for eggplant.   Flea beetles devoured them.  Try under hoops?

• New York Improved eggplant
• Ping Tung Eggplant
• Japanese Pickling

Flowers:  zinnia (liliput), calendula [and probably some cosmos.  I love cosmos.]

Garlic: Made it through the winter, but the constant rain rotted a bunch.  Pulled enough to replant this fall. 

• Chesnock Red
• German Red

Greens:

• Arugula
• Bibb Lettuce

Herbs, Annual:

• Basil, Genovese
• Genovese red basil
• Basil, Thai:  Very sweet! Small leaves.  Blooms very quickly!
• Cilantro, Slo Bolt.  Got original seed from BC.  Now I use our saved seed. Mostly it self sows.
• Dill.  Self sows now

Herbs, Perennial [planted several years ago]

• Lavender
• Thyme
• Sage
• Horehound
• Chives
• Anise Hyssop
• Hyssop
• Chamomile [self sows]
• Alpine Strawberries
• Clary Sage: Didn't come up this year.
• Winter savory
• Lemon balm
• Sorrel
• Purslane: volunteers.

Melon: None came up.   

Onions: Planted sets from Rural King.  Harvested well until late May when the constant rain rotted them.

Peas:   Sugar Snap.   Saved seed from 2014.  Heat tolerant.  Lasted through July
  
Peppers -We're shooting for sweeter, meatier peppers this year.

• Jupiter pepper  or maybe it's Lipstick?   Puppy got into the starts.  This one made it.
• Golden California Wonder pepper [beautiful!]

Potatoes:  Kennebec,  early ones were great. 

Radish:   Early Scarlet Globe - the regular red kind.   Nice!

Squash, Summer

• Zucchino Rampicante - No new seed this year, so we'll try planting last year's seed and keep our fingers crossed.  Languishing.  No blooms.   Too wet?
• Golden Marbre Scallop [pattypan]
• Lemon Squash
• Castata Romanesco [zucch type]:  Early set of fruit. Light.  Striped.
• Black Beauty Zucchini:  Late sown.  Good producer.

Squash, Winter: Started late. Fertilized.  Came up well.   Languished.  Too wet?  Not dead, but not doing anything.  

• Black Futsu
• Greek Sweet Red
• Galeux d'Eysinee squash 
• Pie Pumpkin:  seed saved from last year.
• Gioia Violina: butternut type.

Strawberries

• June bearing [from May's]
• Ever bearing  [from May's]

Tomato

• Amish Paste:  Good standby.  Roma type.  Does OK with septoria.
• Lemon boy:  Good! 
• Early Girl:
• Indigo Rose:
• Uncle Mark Bagby
• Black Cherry [grape tomatoes]:   Nice!   Prolific and tolerant of septoria.  

Garden Huckleberry: Prolific.