The garden this year started in mid April with a variety of tomatoes and peppers. I kept track of the incoming crop, took notes along the way, and tallied up the totals.
I planted a bunch of different tomatoes: Early Girl, Patio, Large Red Cherry, Better Boy, Big Boy, Roma, and Super Fantastic. I also planted seven different kinds of peppers: Big Bertha, Camelot, Golden Yellow, Orange, Red, Jalapeño, and Serrano.
The results are in. Here is what I brought in this season:
- Red Cherry tomatoes: 145
- Betty Boy tomatoes: 12
- Big Boy tomatoes: 7
- Roma tomatoes: 22
- Rutger tomatoes: 16
- Patio tomatoes: 34
- Early Girl tomatoes: 58
- Super Fantastic tomatoes: 3
- Golden peppers: 6
- Red peppers: 10
- Orange peppers: 25
- Yellow peppers: 14
- Camelot peppers: 58
- Big Bertha peppers: 58
- Serrano peppers: 280
- Jalepeño peppers: 143
We had a long week of several +100 degree days in early July that killed the majority of the tomato plants. Thankfully, the pepper plants survived and had a productive Fall. At the beginning of August, I planted Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Romaine Lettuce. I didn’t keep track of the Fall crop, but the Broccoli was successful and the Cauliflower is still growing. The lettuce started off great, but outgrew itself. So that was a bad idea.
Some notes for the 2013 season:
- Super Fantastic tomatoes aren’t that fantastic
- Put the patio tomatoes in pots only
- Move Roma’s to the back (replace Big Boy spots on row 11)
- Less/no Big Boy’s (lost 5/8 plants)
- More Rutgers (move closer to the front)
- Camelot and Big Bertha’s were very successful
The full breakdown:
- 2010 Garden Totals [PDF]