Collards

Musk Melon and Princess pumpkin

Walking Stick Kale

Broccoli Kale

Shoyu Cucumbers

Peas and Beans

I started with some pea plants from seed.  They did okay and I was quite surprised when they all died at once.  Is that normal? One fruiting, then dead?

I also bought some Sugar Snap pea starts, visible above.

I also planted green beans, not really remembering that I don't love green beans and I surely would have rather had more Snap Peas.  The plants are vigourous growers and need no help to get big and healthy.

Strawberries

I have four strawberry plants, plus some new colonies.  I have several varities of Ever Bearing and one White Carolina which supposedly produces white strawberries, but I haven't seen any.

Also, why do strawberries grow stunted sometimes?  Need fertilizer?

Spicy Peppers

Thai Chili

This little plant seems to be stunted.  I've had it for several months and it's only about 50% bigger than it was at the start.  I don't know why it is going so slow.  I think I'm missing something.

Red Bishop Caps

This girl seems to be doing great.  Lots of fruit and healthy leaves.

Martha Washington's Asparagus

I bought this without realizing that asparagus that takes a year to start.  I hope that being in a smallish pot won't stop it from establishing itself.  My friends have a massive asparagus plant.  It's almost 8 feet tall.  Spears as thick as saplings.  I never knew it was like that.

Tomatoes

I planted two tomatoes in one pot.  Berkeley tie Dye a small heirloom slicer and Sweet Million cherries.  These breeds are made by the prolific hybridizer XXXXXX from XXXX farm.  I would recommend both breeds.  The cherries were super fast growing and very healthy. The other was a little wilty from time to time and ended up with some brown leaves, without an obvious reason.

I also got a Rutgers Tomato from a neighbor's plant sale.  Rutgers tomatoes are what I picture is ideal tomatoes and perfect example of what a normal tomato might look like.  Smallish in size, they are red and round and perfect, if your looking for typical 'maters.

You know the cherry tomatoes are ripe when they glow in the sunlight.

Red and Yellow peppers

I never knew that green peppers are just red and yellow peppers that haven't ripened yet.  Red peppers and yellow peppers are so good.  One of my favorite gardnering moments was eating a whole pepper like an apple, right off the vine.  The freshest thing I've ever tasted.

These were not the easiest plants for me.  I had something that looked like end rot, I had one of the peppers get a dead patch from under watering.  The plants grew vigorously and started a lot of fruit, but not very much of it came to harvest.

Japanese Eggplant

Very slow grower.  One bag of potting soil I bought was very mulchy and many of the plants that used it were very slow to grow.  I had a cauliflower that took forever to grow.  The eggplant has one fruit in it and I love it.  What a pretty plant, the flowers are a gorgeous purple.

The Guavas

I bought a strawberry guava.  My wife doesn't like straw berry guava so she bought me a pineapple guava plant.  So now I have two smallish bushes neither of which produced even a single guava, the strawberry flowered twice, but alas no fruit.  Pollination?

Do guavas need  a year to set up roots before they fruit?

Also, my strawberry guava doesn't seem like it's pot drains.  Very weird.  Ànd how did I not notice?