I thought I'd recap what went wrong and right this summer with the veggies:
Yellow straightneck squash: planted 2 plants from Home Depot. Yielded 2 lovely little straightneck squash. I definitely did not have enough room for these since the tomato plants just took over EVERYTHING.
Red Bell Sweet Pepper: planted 2 plants from Home Depot. These totally got overshadowed (literally) by the tomato plants. We got one pepper. Unfortunately I picked it too early - I forgot they were supposed to be red peppers. Next year, I'd like to so a separate bed with sweet and hot peppers.
Black Prince Heirloom Tomato: I guess these are heirloom for a reason. They tasted awesome, but we had trouble with these tomatoes being deformed, split, or hole-ridden. We didn't get many perfect ones, the rest I just incorporated into sauces. Not going to do this one next year.
Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato: This plant went crazy. Good yield, good taste. Would definitely plant these again. Next year I need some better and taller supports.
Orange cherry tomatoes - GREAT SUCCESS. June loved picking these and eating them. Huge yield! There are still lots of green tomatoes ripening on the vine now in mid-september. Again, next year I need better supports - the plants grew to about 7 feet tall before slumping over and shadowing all the herbs.
Rutgers Heirloom Tomato: Tasty, but unfortunately the deer and rabbits took a lot of these. Next year - fencing! These grew pretty big and we didn't have too many problems with splitting or disease. I might stay away from the heirloom varieties next year and stick to the hardier types.
Sweet Basil - total success! No deer or rabbit trouble. but gone now :(
Oregano - success - gone now
Parsley - success - gone now
Rosemary - success- still going strong
Mint - in pot, could use a sunnier location next year
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