An overview on how my gardening experiments went this summer...

This summer I planted quite a few herbs, the standards like oregano, basil (a couple different kinds), rosemary, thyme (a couple different varieties), mint, peppermint, stevia, and so on and so forth. I also planted three different kinds of tomatoes, two types of peas, swiss chard, lebanese cukes, zucchini, parsnips, a number of flowers and the list goes on.

Some things worked out well like the zucchinis of course and although it took a while my smaller varieties of tomatoes were prolific. My basil went through some ups and downs and although the lebanese cukes did well, except for a dropping of the temperature one night seemed to hit one of the plants really hard and it didn't bounce back. The swiss chard worked out well and provided some consistent greens for a while and the mints/peppermints were up and down. Considering our crazy weather, wind storms, July hail storms and the like, things went relatively well. Some things turned out and some did not. I've learned quite a bit and I'm already planning for next seasons' garden.

Here are a couple more shots of the lebanese cucumbers.