Our Garden 2010

First off---I just ran across the list where I was keeping track of what we got out of the garden:
Sugar snap peas--we got LOTS of these over and over and none went to waste.
Spinach--we used this in several salads
Lettuce--the equivalent of about one head
corn--equivalent of about 2 cans
strawberries--1 pt.
bell peppers--LOTS and none of these went to waste either
green onions--Loads of these but a lot did end up going to waste.
chives--loads of these. We used it in a lot of cooking but a lot also went to waste
tomatoes--about 8 lbs total. We had to use the wrap them in newspaper trick at the end of the season for about 3 lbs of them.
carrots--a couple of bunches worth.

I had a hard time figuring out just what all of these items were worth but have a figure of only about $50 for the food we used. This was not good. But...on to the rest of the update.

In March 2011 we bought our own home. This really put to waste the money spent on building up the garden at his sister's house. We did pull some of the strawberries and got about a pint total from those plants.
In the fall of 2010 an online friend sent me over wintering onions. I pulled those and planted them in our new yard. We did get several onions but I guess I didn't know well enough about how to plant the tops as no more grew.
I picked up some wild garlic from the freecycle list. We used it several times in our cooking and of course it's popped back up this year.

We bought a couple of tomato plants, a couple of bell pepper plants, green bean seeds, pea seeds, and spinach. We also planted some cantaloupe seeds.

We had such a hard summer with record breaking triple digit temperatures 37 days of the summer. The ground was obviously not good either. We didn't have extra to spend on soil amendment.

I attempted a compost pile with no luck at all. It never did any composting! We put in food such as banana peels, old lettuce, strawberry hulls, egg shells, and much more. We also threw in weeds we pulled, shredded newspapers, etc.

Lessons learned. This year we only plan on having 2 tomato plants and 2 bell pepper plants and we have 2 very large planters that came with the house that we are going to put those in. There is already potting soil in those pots. Wish us luck.

Please, if you have any lenses that give advice on gardening, link them up below!