Season End & Rreview

I picked the last, green tomatoes today. There are some flowers still doing well in my "garden", and the strawberry plant seems to be going wild (one red strawberry and 5 more in different shades of green). But considering the fact that morning temperatures are hovering a little above zero degrees Celsius, I think it may be time for some rest. :) (I'm lazy and decided against trying to do something with late-season crops. :P)

During the season, I was diligent about writing down everything I harvested. This is the final result:

	planted:	harvested:
chili	2	13
peas	4	23
tomatoes	4	65
onions	12	0
lettuce	5	4
carrots	18	14
radish	21	4

Chili plants did very well. I harvested 3 Thai Bird's Eye chilis and 10 Mirasol chilis. I gave a few Mirasol pods to some friends and they said they're perfect, really tasty and at just the right level of spiciness. Plus they look very nice, better than my decorative plants! I'll definitely be planting more chili next year!

Peas were great! I had only 4 pea plants but they produced a lot of pea pods. More peas next year!

Tomatoes were also doing well. One of the plants was small and scraggly and managed to produce only 3 tomatoes, but the other three were doing much better. I'm planting more tomatoes next year.

Onions were a total disappointment. Considering that I don't even like eating them, I think I won't be trying to grow them again.

Lettuce was so-so. The summer heat started too soon, so it didn't have much of a chance. I'll try again.

Carrots were another disappointment. They were small and not all that tasty, even though I spent two months constantly caring about them. No more growing carrots. :P

Radishes were my first try and they didn't turn out very well (or at all). But I'll try again.

In summary: Next year there won't be any onions or carrots, but there will be more tomatoes, chili and peas. :)

I also decided to make some kind of rain collector, because I've discovered that one drop of rain is worth more to my plants than 1 liter of tap water!