Harvested on Aug. 28: (left to right) green onions, Rutgers and Ukranian Purple tomatoes, yellow crookneck squash, Blue Lake green beans, purple cabbage and lettuce
This was just my second summer of gardening in Philadelphia, and my seventh summer in the northeastern United States after a quarter century living and gardening in Los Angeles. So I have a limited basis for comparing the growing season now drawing to a close with past seasons. I have been around long enough to know that this was an exceptionally cool and pleasant summer. But how did Philly gardeners fare this year compared with in the past?
Jill Schneider, the manager of the community garden in Roxborough where I have a plot, was certainly ebullient. In an August email to Garden RUN gardeners, under the subject line “Best Summer Ever!,” she exclaimed, “I can see that many of you are enjoying bumper crops this year…isn’t it wonderful?!” When I asked her to expound on that thought, Jill replied in early September with a ditty, titled Philly Garden Season 2014:
Summer temps below ninety,
Garden pests were few,
Adequate rainfall,
My plants grew and grew and grew!
🙂
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Though a bug of some sort took out my cucumber vines as soon as they started yielding cukes, and my basil met an early demise due to mildew, all of my other crops were free of pests and diseases. The Rutgers tomato I planted was a bust (clearly disappointed that the muggy heat it was bred to favor never arrived), but the cool-season Early Girl thrived, producing tiny but numerous tomatoes right through the summer and into September. And the two heirloom tomato varieties I planted, Black Krim and Ukranian Purple, did quite well, by heirloom standards.
Overall, the benign growing season was reflected, I think, in the diversity of crops I was still bringing home from my little plot at the end of the summer. In late August, I was harvesting lettuce and cabbage that normally would have succumbed to the heat by early July, along with the more typical hot-season crops like tomatoes, okra and beans.
Bottom line: I can’t say whether this was the best season ever or not, but I’m very pleased with the results.
Harvested on Sept. 21: (left to right) Early Girl, Black Krim and Ukranian Purple tomatoes, Kentucky Wonder green beans, okra and cucumber