Garden Evaluation: peas, onions, potatoes

Box 1: Early Spring Veggies
Peas, onions, potatoes
Planted: March 27

Peas: 4 squares x 8/sq.

Varieties: 'Sugar Daddy' (stringless pods) and 'Super Snappy' (edible pods w/ huge peas)
Of the two, I actually preferred the Super Snappy--the pods were thick, sweet, and crunchy.

Yield: About 75% came up. Plenty for eating fresh, enough to use in a recipe now and then.

Pests, Problems, Diseases: None to speak of

Finished: July 23: harvested the last and pulled up the plants.

Comments:

Since we will only be here until the end of June next year, this would be a good crop to plant. We'll get to keep most of the harvest, and it will look good in the box for selling.


Onions: 6 squares x 16/sq. + 2-3 squares in box 2, maybe 5-6/sq., from Lisa.

Varieties: um...don't remember, some yellow and some white. Also, some I bought individually (they were already about green onion size) and I got one bunch of the tiny ones.

Yield: at least one orange basket-full, most golf-ball size, a few tennis-ball sized. We used them up in a 2-3 weeks.

Pests, Problems, Diseases: None

Finished: end of July
Comments:
I've since heard that this was a bad year for onions. I don't know, but none of mine got to be really big for slicing. Also, they were all extra strong flavor, when I thought home-grown were usually more mild.

Very easy crop to grow.

Next time I want to plant more, all of them the kind to grow into big slicers. Green onions are cheap to buy, and you can get the quantities you want without taking up a lot of garden space
(or having to continually replant). Also, the big onions could be stored for fall/winter use if we had more than we could eat in the summer.
I'll have to admit, I didn't do anything with the ones from Lisa. They are supposed to be hardy, so maybe they'll come back on their own next year and we'll harvest some.

Potatoes: 6 squares x 4-5/sq. + some in a bucket
Variety: Yukon Gold--tasty
Yield: This much (see picture), plus 7 or 8 more, plus one huge one today! (10/31)

Pests/Problems/Diseases: none except dog jumping on them.
Finished: end of July
Comments: Potatoes are fun to grow! Harvesting them is like digging for buried treasure--you never know how many or what size will come up, with no sign of the seed potato pieces you planted. The plants themselves got to be 3 1/2 feet tall, and were beautifully green and bushy until they got smashed by Diamond. We had to harvest these early this year due to afore-mentioned smashing. We eat so many potatoes, that I wouldn't mind planting an entire 4x4 box (or even more) of just potatoes. Especially since they also store well for winter use.
Potatoes in the bucket didn't do nearly as well on any front. Top-growth was scrawny and diseased-looking, and harvest was very small. They probably needed a lot more water than they got. So unless there's a really good reason to do otherwise, all potatoes will go in the ground from now on.
Probably won't plant next summer, as we won't get any of the harvest.