2022 Garden

April snow, a cold wet June, and a July through October heat wave continued the trend of unpredictable results in this year’s garden. Flowering perennials continued to thrive, along with established fruit trees. Summer vegetable harvests were below average again, with the late first frost parially making up for the late start. This year’s edible harvest featured:

  • Twenty zucchinis
  • Five pumpkins
  • Three butternut squashes
  • Two snap peas
  • Five bell peppers
  • Three dozen jalapeno peppers
  • Around one hundred tomatoes, heavily skewed toward the smaller varieties
  • 1/2 pint of raspberries
  • 10 pints of blackberries
  • Six Asian pears
  • One hundred apples (most sampled by birds and worms)
  • Around 50 large persimmons (half donated to the squirrels)
Christmas snow blankets the patio.
December snow dusts the arbor.
Lupine leaves emerge in late March.
Flowering Oregon Grape
Asian Pear buds.
Flowers cover an established Asian pear tree a week before it was destroyed by extreme weather.
New Pieris leaves emerge in a vibrant red complimenting its white flowers.
Heavy mid-April snow decimates trees and other plants that had previously seen weeks of late-spring weather.
Late apple buds emerge.
Apple blossoms.
By June, a robust array of perennial flowers are out despite prolonged cold and wet conditions.
The first zucchini plant finally begins to flower at the end of July.
Pumpkin vines begin to fill the garden beds.
Zucchinis start to ripen six weeks later than “usual”.
Zucchini flowers
Even most of the sunflowers have an underwhelming year with the late start.
Pumpkin vines begin to crawl beyond their bed.
Stupice tomatoes start to ripen in mid August.
The blackberry crop is large and high-quality thanks to the late rain.
Pumpkins begin setting in mid August.
Larger volumes of peppers and tomatoes begin to set at the end of August.
A young Butternut Squash.
Legend tomatoes grow down a garden bed terrace.
The first notable tomato harvest in early September.
Butternuts
Ripe tomatoes adorn a productive Stupice plant
Ripe Jalapeno peppers in mid September
Second tomato harvest – to varying degrees of ripeness – at the end of September.
Warm, dry weather allows an unexpected ripe tomato harvest in mid October.
A smaller and later than average pumpkin/squash harvest at the end of October.
The return of heavy rain in late October triggers a final tomato harvest for indoor ripening.
A squirrel snacks on persimmons as they ripen on the tree.

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