Note to self on next year's growing season...

...more beans...all kinds.

...zucchini amount was good (although since we've been having freakishly cool weather lately, I could've probably had more by now). I have 6 plants.

...space out the tomatoes more...I had 8 plants planted in one "plot". maybe plant 4 plants in a zigzag fashion and plant pepper plants where the other 4 plants have been removed. just plant plum tomatoes. forget about the round ones. maybe some grape tomatoes...

...more peppers...can do without the jalapenos. [ask me in a few weeks on this one. they taste very bitter and it may be due to less watering than it would like. one of my pepper varieties is supposed to turn red upon ripening, so i am waiting for that to see if the taste of them improve]

...depending on the corn development, maybe plant same amount of corn. (the cool weather seems to have slowed down the ripening process).PLANT CORN!! Corn was WONDERFUL. I had 12 plants, and got about 17 ears off of them. I blanched them, shocked them, and de-eared them to freeze and store for later eating. yum!! golden bantam cross. (i bought this year's corn plants as seedlings.)

...more flowers...i just love the color! plant earlier too. at least zinnias, calendula, and nasturtiums should be a mainstay. maybe marigolds as well. try yellow with red. purple/blue with white.

...eggplants are okay. can throw them into everything. No eggplants. Husband doesn't really care for them.

...can't say anything about the melons...none have ripened yet, although i've seen a few globes. I had one charantais. and like melons...they NEED DAILY WATERING. the biggest melons were eaten through by critters before i could get a taste of them, so they were quickly thrown into the compost pile. the one i got to try was small and the taste was sweet but.....weird. i didn't like it. if you want to grow melons, try watermelon again and WATER DAILY!!

...if i grow cucumbers again, i need to make sure they are watered every day as long as it stays hot during the day. they didn't even like the every other day watering. need DAILY watering.

...NOTE: grow the cukes and the watermelons near each other. they both need LOTS of WATER DAILY.

...any other suggestions of vegetables to grow?...