progress this summer, but still not what i was hoping for in terms of yield. definitely got more tomatoes, but nowhere near what i had in mind. probably got 30 or 40 total good size ones, and 50-100 cherries. a few carrots, two handfuls of potatoes (grown from 1 handful of potato seed, so not the best return, but very fun to dig up), a bunch of lettuce, one watermelon (picture above), a few 'volunteer' decorator pumpkins (that matured in july and are now rotten!), 10 or so good cucumbers, some excellent snap peas, basil and mint.
must have been a great year for apples, though, as our 2 apple trees produced a ton of apples. we made a batch of applesauce and borrowed a friend's cider press to make some delicious cider! the bees found us halfway through that process and were going nuts. also did a big batch of grape jelly. i thought we may have lost our 1 remaining concord grape vines in the blizzard of 2009 last Christmas, but it hung in there and provided a great harvest, and this year, the jelly actually set up unlike last years runny jelly which we ended up using as syrup. here's the bountiful grape harvest:
not sure if i mentioned it in the past, but we got 5 chickens this spring. already laying, almost a year old. i've been adding the poop to the compost pile - hopefully that will mean good things for the next batch of compost!
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