So today I harvested the last goodies from my garden. My first growing season has been rife with mixed results. Here's the total lowdown of all results, more or less in chronological order:

Garlic: A quick and complete failure. The plants were wimpy and died when things got too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry, or too anything.

Potatoes, Part 1: When a bag of supermarket potatoes went rotten this winter, I decided to simply stick them in the ground to see what would happen. The result: a bumper crop of delicious little nuggety potatoes! Though the plants appeared to get sick and die off in the middle of the season, the spoils underground made the venture worthwhile.

Radishes: I didn't get many actually radishes from this crop. However, when the radishes rapidly bolted I found out their seed pods were fairly delicious. I'm not sure if I'd grow them again though. Success or failure? Meh...

Yellow Wax Beans: Another plant that seemed like all it wanted to do was die. In the cooler months I kept trying to start them inside and then transplant them to the garden. The first batch died entirely. Half of the next batch died on transplant. When it was warm enough I started a few in the garden. Still, only a few beans were yielded. Not really worth the effort.

Turnips: Contrary to common sense, my turnips did not seem to want to start outside in early spring. The second batch of seeds grew voraciously. You can stew and eat the greens much like spinach, and the roots go good with potatoes. I'm still pulling them up and eating them.

Potatoes, Part 2: The garden's previous owners' potatoes regrew in their same location as last year. The plants were bigger and leafier, and the potatoes were bigger, but there were much fewer of them.

Onions: They grew. I ate the greens. I ate the onions. There were delicious.

Peppers: I started these plants inside and they seemed to take forever to grow. The peppers never became very big in comparison the the storebought variety, but there were quite a few of them.

Carrots: I harvested these today and was fairly impressed. Regrettably, a lot of little worms seem to have made their homes in some of the carrots. Sigh.

Next year I think that I'll grow some zucchinis.