Well, if my goal this year was to grow healthy tomato plants, then the garden was an overwhelming success.

That’s just two tomato plants, each of them bigger than me and heavy enough that it’s a struggle to hold them above my head like that. However, if my goal was to actually grow *tomatoes*, well that didn’t go so well. I’m not sure about all the science of it, but I know there are various minerals that affect plants differently. Some will make lots of leafy greens (great for your lettuce bed, not so good for your tomato bed), others make lots of fruit (apparently lacking in my tomato bed). We got a few handfuls of pear and cherry tomatoes off these plants. There were also a couple of other tomato plants in the same bed that didn’t get quite as big and also didn’t ripen much fruit. Part of the problem was that I got the whole garden started late, so next year this should go better. For now, I have hung these plants (and the few smaller ones) upside down in the hopes that the last of the fruit will ripen before it freezes. I had to take them out of hte bed they were in because it’s past time to start my fall/winter garden and they were taking up valuable real estate in the mini-greenhouse.

There are several things that I would like to note for myself to remember in the next planting season:
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