Sewing projects - Well, I started on the overnight bag but then stopped after I kind of messed up. My Mom told me how to probably fix it, but I just haven't done it yet. I haven't attempted any other sewing projects at this point either.
Gardening - Successes
- Tomatoes - I do have 11 cherry tomato plants and they have produced really well! I was getting a deluge of tomatoes around the end of July, and it was great! I have never had so many tomatoes that I have had to make sauce before.
- Herbs (mint, basil, etc) - These have grown really well. The basil is growing like CRAZY. I am pretty shocked at how quickly it grew. The small mint plant that I bought in May got REALLY big (like 3 feet tall!).
- Lettuce and snow peas - I had not planned on growing these when I wrote my goals post and wow am I surprised at how great these plants did and how they produced. I will definitely be growing these again next year.
- Misc - I also grew random wildflowers from seeds. I figured they would help attract pollinators to the garden. It probably worked, and the flowers are pretty. I think next year I will need to plant those seeds at the same time I plant the tomato seeds. It took much longer for the flowers to appear than I thought.
Gardening - Flops / Didn't try
- Yellow bell peppers - Well, I tried with 6 plants. But ALL of the peppers were rotting on the vine before they were turning yellow. ALL of them. I couldn't salvage any of them. About a month ago, I gave up and threw all of the plants out. I will probably not try to grow these again.
- Zucchini - I tried to grow these too but was not successful. When I saw that the plant stems were rotting (ick!), I threw these plants out which was some time ago.
- Blueberries - I did not buy any this year; I was researching my options instead. Because I am not going to grow the zucchini or peppers next year, I am going to buy some blueberry plants and put them in that area of the garden. Part of the reason why I didn't buy any this year was because I was out of space in the garden area and could not think of a good place to put them since deer will eat them.
Once I get notice of the first frost, I will pick all of the tomatoes that are left so they can ripen in the house. I will also have to evaluate the herbs to see what can come in the house (some of them are so big that there is no space for them). Then the garden will be done for the year. The fall growing season in my area is much too short to attempt a cool season garden.
