Picture Year in Review, Part 3: The Garden

I decided to do this section in it's own post, as these are some fun pictures that  I kept hoping to share.  Our little 2025 container garden.

A few things I learned by accident this year.  One, Swiss chard can grow a lot closer together than you have been told (I put three seedlings per small pot and they actually gave me a nice yield overall when it came to harvest time).  Two, it is amazing how far caterpillars will travel to do destruction.  I had one lettuce plant completely eaten through right above the dirt by one of those buggers.  In a planter.  Up on a second floor deck.  I was impressed.  Three, growing basil indoors is the way to go.  I was able to harvest Basil all summer off of my tiny little basil plant that I grew on my kitchen shelf.  It was awesome.  My herbs out on the deck didn't do well at all.  We had a cold, wet summer and they did not like it.  I was impressed that the tomato plants grew honestly.  I was able to harvest enough ripe tomatoes to eat with salads over the summer and got a small bag of green tomatoes at the end of the season that I'll use to make something with later in the winter.

Armina's hanging basket did well again this year, although we fought blight numerous times with how wet and crappy it was.  It hung on like a champ, though.

So, onto the picture highlights...

And there you go folks.  Our 2025 garden.

Enjoy!