Greens

Blog fail. I haven’t posted since this time last year. The garden has been growing well though, here are a few photos in summary:

I have been busy though, over the last year we’ve been weighing all the garden produce as we pick it. It’s been weighed in the same way as you’d buy it from the greengrocers (e.g. rhubarb without leaves, carrots without tops, etc.). Here goes:

August 2009-August 2010

• Asparagus: 4.73kg
• Broad beans: 760g
• Strawberries: 2.86kg
• Courgette: 3.5kg
• Potatoes: 8.56kg (new Jersey Bennes: 6.4kg; main crop (Rua?): 2.16kg)
• Beans: 11.02kg (King of the Blues: 2.98kg; Scarlet Runner: 8.04kg)
• Tomatoes: 30.59kg (Bloody Butcher: 5.68kg; Roma: 7.61kg; Brandywine Pink: 13.32kg; Beefsteak: 4.03kg)
• Sweetcorn: 800g (pitiful!)
• Hungarian Yellow chillies: 615g
• Purple capsicum: 975g
• Kumikumi pumpkin: 3.5kg
• Aubergine: 1.55kg
• Spring onions: 445g
• Celery: 2.79kg
• Rhubarb: 10.58kg
• NZ spinach: 2.89kg
• Silverbeet: 225g (plus undocumented kilos fed directly to the guinea pigs)
• Radishes: 1.59kg
• Peas: 855g (could do better…)
• Beetroot: 1.43kg
• Onions: 970g
• Carrots: 3.1kg
• Borlotti beans: 125g (dry weight – will try harder this year!)
• Serrano chilli: 870g
• Jerusalem artichokes: 9.86kg
• Mandarins: 560g
• Olives: 60g (though I did brine these in a very small jar)
• Strawberry guavas: 885g
• Cabbage: 340g
• Feijoas: 400g
• Lemons: 430g
• Broccoli: 200g
• Florence fennel: 670g (these were just thinnings – lots more fat bulbs imminent!)