2015 Garden Report Card

Every year I like to assess how the garden grew. It pleases me that I grow 40 different vegetables and fruits. As always, some are successful, others not. So here's 2015's report card:

Crop	Grade	Remarks
Apples	A+	2 trees. Over 10 bushels, still left some unpicked.
Artichokes	A	Started with 6 plants, voles killed 2. Harvested 11 'chokes.
Asparagus	C	12 row feet. Decent production from young plants. Planted a 2nd 12 foot row this year.
Beans, Green	A	24 square feet, great initial harvests, dwindled rapidly. Still got plenty.
Beans, Dry	B	Approx 80 row feet yielded 4.5 lbs. Still think we could do better than that.
Beans, Runner	B	Sowed 50 seeds, yielded 1-2 meals of dry beans plus next year's seed.
Beets	C-	Planted 16 squares, 9 plants per square. Not a good year for beets.
Broccoli	B+	12 plants. Heads not as large as last year.
Brussels Sprouts	A+	12 plants. Excellent production.
Carrots	B	32 square feet. Decent production, but not as great as prior years.
Chard	B	8 square feet. Got a slow start and had vole problems.
Cherries	A	2 trees. Incredible fruit set--birds got most.
Chinese Cabbage	A+	Grew in summer only, 6 plants. Outstanding production.
Corn, Sweet	A	Early corn not productive, mid-season very productive and tasty.
Corn, Flint	A	Approx 50 row feet. Yield 8 pounds shelled kernels.
Cucumbers	B+	First planting did not get off to a good start, second planting did well.
Eggplant	D	Slow start, production low.
Grapes	A+	2 bushels, made 5 gallons of blush wine, aging now.
Hops	A	This just keeps getting better and better
Kale	A+	6 plants. Large yield.
Leeks	A	First time growing. Quite a nice haul of fairly slender leeks. Took a long time.
Lettuce	A+	More than we knew what to do with.
Muskmelons	C+	Finally got some large fruit, but still not enough.
Onions	A+	Better production than last year on fewer sets.
Pears	B	2 small trees. 25 small pears.
Peas, snow/snap	A	Big improvement over last year.
Peas, soup	A	First time growing. Got about a quart of dried peas.
Peppers	C	Got off to a bad start. Low production.
Potatoes	B+	29 lbs. from 2.5 lbs seed. Plants not as large as last year. Variety "Kennebec."
Pumpkins	D	Terrible year compared to last.
Radishes, spring	A+	Row cover greatly helped root maggot problem.
Radishes, summer	A+	"Watermelon" variety, summer planting. Got even better yield than last year.
Raspberries	A	Picked several gallons over the weeks.
Spinach	D-	I still cannot grow spinach! Grew slowly, then bolted.
Squash, winter	C-	Got off to a bad start. Low production.
Sunflowers	A+	Grew "Mongolian Giant," which lived up to the name.
Tobacco	A	Grew 4 plants of the "Orinoco" variety. A very pretty plant with a "benefit."
Tomatoes	B+	8 determinate, 4 indeterminate. Initial yields good, but plants taken down by blight quickly.
Watermelons	C	Finally got larger fruit, but still undersized.
Zucchini	A	4 plants this year. Production good.