2011 Final garden notes

We ripped out our vegetable garden the first week of November. As the weather cooled, production started to slow down. Most notably, our cucumber plant succumbed to powdery mildew and stopped producing. The zucchini also had it, but didn't stop producing.

Our tomatoes also got some kind of disease and before it froze, I think two of them were already mostly dead.

Our orange peppers barely had time to produce any orange peppers before it got cold, despite the face that they were smaller than normal bell peppers. As always, the banana peppers impressed us with their yield.

Despite the fact that we planted some carrots after the spinach was done and they pretty much grew in the shade of the zucchini and peppers, we still harvested two

The green beans produced much later this year than last year because we bought pole beans. Bush beans produce earlier for the most part, but they don't look as cool as tall pole beans. Next year I think I'l plant a different variety though because ours weren't very tender unless we picked them when they were tiny. Also, I may plant a variety that is purple or yellow because green beans are pretty hard to pick because they blend in with the plant.