2015 Season

Here is what was planted in approx. 20 yds sq (except for 11 tomatoe plants at home):

Tomato plants - 32 at Leslie, 11 at home + 4 mini plants at home
- yellow cherry tomatoes (very prolific), Black Krim cherry tomoatoes (not so prolific but ripen very
  early and are actually small regular tomatoes) - purchased at nursery on Caledonia
- Cherokee (fair yield - some plants died early due to coolness and excessive rain early in the season)
- Brandywine (just a few)
- Green Zebra (novelty tomato - plant 3 or 4 max
- Sicilian (did poorly; lack of heat)
- Orange Banana (a very prolific roma type tomato - yellow/orange when ripe - did very well in
  cooler weather)
- Nepal tomatoes (no idea??)
- Black Brandywine (not sure - maybe that was what I thought were the Black Krim cherry tom?)

Total yield 77 pounds - approx value $460


Peppers
- 30 peppers in total
- Aruba, Jimmy Nardello and North Star and Cayenne
- Cayennes did poorly; not enough heat - other two gave very good yield extended over the whole  
  season, up to late September
- plant 6 to 8 cayennes next year
- at garden, increase numbers by 5 or 6:  18 North Star,  8 Aruba and 4/5 Nardello

Total yield 16 pounds - approx. value $200

Beans
- three double rows, two thirds width of plot each
- 1 double row of Nekeron (close)
- 2 double rows of flat beans (from Fiesta)

Total yield 47 pounds - approx value $330

Zucchini
- Romanesco and light green varieties - Nice style is not  great;  too much seed area
- two hills with 3/4 plants each
- home seeded plants did OK - late seeded plants produced nothing and hardly grew
- poor yield - too cold early in the season

Total yield 19 pounds -  approx. value $120

Lettuce
- two seedings
- Romaine, Deer Tonge and Hilda

Total yield 30 heads - approx. value $90

Kale
- Tuscan kale - did poorly - problems with insects - solution?
- others planted both - curly type did very well
- next year plant both types
- next year plant some regular Swiss Chard (old Dutch variety gives small yield)

Radishes
- Breakfast, white (Icicle?), Watermelon, Daikon
- Breakfast ones did very well
- white ones a bit too harsh
- Watermelon did all right but need protection from some kind of worm - plant a bit earlier than suggested
- Daikon did well but need more time to ripen so plant earlier than recommended

Total yield 6 pounds - approx. value $30

The season was quite cool early on, with some cooler spells throughout the summer.  Beans did very well and continued right until end of October (dried pods) as it never got hot enough to stop them from producing.  Not the best weather for tomatoes; it was cool with some heavy rain early in the season, which probably kept the soil cooler.  No prolonged really hot spells.
Fair bit of rain; didn't have to water too often



Total approx. value of vegetables:  $1230
Costs: Fee $80, Fence $250, Manure $20

Wow!

Tomatoes planted east side of entrance in three blocks.
Peppers in front of three rows of beans.
Beans to the right or west of plot entrance.
Kale at south end of plot and some on west side.
Zucchinis in south-east and south-west corners.