I have been thinking about the garden what went well and what didn’t go quite so well and what I want to try in 2009.
Went well
- Compost – composted all household compostibles
- Lettuce (I had home grown lettuce most days)
- Mint – great but has now passed its best lasted about 3 months
- Rosmary – can’t fail with this
- Dwarf broad beans – I harvested a few and killed them and left in soil (fixing nitrogeon)
- Garlic (from sprouted cloves)
- Basil – good but bolted quickly
Almost Worked
- Peas, tomatoes – started well but got rot
- Cabbage, broccoli – started well be savaged by snails cabbage moth & slugs.
- Broad beans some looked promising but rotted or just died
- Strawberries, grapes (produced but eaten by birds)
- Chillis (from from chill seeds from kitchen) kept getting eaten when young
Failures (didn’t grow at all)
- Soybeans (maybe the seeds were bad)
- Grow from seeds they kept dying
Things I have learnt
- How to use mulch
- How to water
