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This weekend promises to be sunny, so I think I will put my Trench Garden to bed for the year.

Reference link http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/108002.html

I planted these things; how did they do?

- potatoes (grown-in-the-tire trick): These did very well, better than I expected. Yukon Golds. Got about half a bushel out of two tires. I will do this again next year.

- onion sets (for green onions and winter onions): some green onions, but more bulb onions. I think next year I will just grow green onions from seed, as the little ones seem to be more popular.

- snow peas: the deer ate almost all of these, or rather the flowers - but if you don't have pea flowers, you don't get peas. Some hid successfully underneath the leaves, but not enough made it through to be worthwhile. I don't think I will bother with it again.

- spinach: Plants came up and promptly bolted. Think I got enough for one small salad before the deer got it.

- tomatoes: Did fine, but they took their time ripening. One plant made a lot of nice large tomatoes, and the other made masses of delicious cherry tomatoes.

- peppers: one got eaten by the deer, one tried to grow a pepper but got overshadowed by the tomato plants. Ended up with one the size of a ping-pong ball.

- corn: planted a row or two, grew quite nicely, got taller than Aki. Raccoons got only one cob.



- watermelons: Just for fun. Did not grow very quickly, and we ended up with two or three about the size of tennis balls.

- Strawberry plants: survived the winter, but only one plant produced any berries. I think I will pull them up and convert that bed along the side of the house into a herb garden.

- Poppies: got some really unusual colours and tall ones this year!
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