2008 gardening

So here is my garden. I worked hard this year and feel like I had a good harvest. My most abundant crop were the pole green beans. I got over 400 beans and was able to put up 2 quarts and 4 pints of green beans. I also froze some, dried some and ate them fresh. We even had enough to save seeds. It remains to be seen how we do next year with our own saved seeds.

The strawberries were fun. We never saved any. We ate them as soon as they came up.
I did discovered that the flowering plum tree we have produces edible plumes and so picked them and made 4 little jars of plum jelly.
The rest of my produce looked like this
Zucchini= 15 (from one plant)
Cucumber=10 (from one plant
Summer squash=7 (from one plant)
Jalepeno peppers=12(from one plant)
Tomatoes:
Yellow pear =50
Mr. Stripey=5
Sweet 100= about 100
Big Boy=30

Carrots were terrible this year. I had about 7 of them come up even though I sowed about 3 packages of carrots.
Corn.... well even though I added my cute pictures of corn we did not eat out corn. I don't know what went wrong. The corn either didn't fully develop so there was not a full ear of kernels of\r the corn kernels were all there but I left them too long. Needless to say since we have a lot of corn growers around us I won't be growing any more corn. It takes a lot of nurishment from the soil and takes up too much space.
I also planted 3 watermelons and one pumpkin all with a no go. The pumpkin grew a nice vine but nothing else. This may be because it was from seed i saved from last years pumpkin. The watermelon I have a feeling needed to be fertilized. In fact, i think all my plants needed additional fertilizer through the growing season and I din't plan for that. Next year I will be more aware of the need to continue adding fertilizer.