Harvest Records and Updates

I dug the last of our potatoes today.  Many of them were over 1 lb. each!  In all, I harvested 46 lb. 8 oz. of Butte potatoes today, giving us a grand total of just over 100 lbs. for this growing season.  This is great!  If only our tomatoes did as well this year, but I really can't complain.  Naomi put up 11 pints of corn, last year she only put up 3, so that's good.  We also didn't have beans last year, or potatoes, or any onions at all.  If only we had harvest records from last year to compare to. 

I started seeds this past week, but can't recall the day.  I think it was Monday, September 3rd, but I'm not sure.  I've got two trays going now that were started on different days.  I also bought more seeds this week, along with some more multiplier onion bulbs.  I'm looking forward to growing some hardy greens this winter, especially in the hoop houses.  I know there will be much to learn about growing under plastic in low temperatures, but I'm ready to learn! 

We've still got one woodchuck that's been visiting daily.  He'll get his soon enough I hope.  I'd like to go into winter with no resident woodchucks, so I can have a jump start on the spring. 

I've been slacking off on general garden chores as I've been getting back into work for the fall.  A lot of weeding needs to be done still, and I'm planning to rebuild all of the garden beds before mulching them over deeply before winter's chill sets in.  The good thing is that I haven't needed to water; mother nature's been providing plenty. 

OK, onto the harvest records!

8/31
Daikon Radish: 4 oz (cut off about half to rot)
Corn: 8 oz (2)
Jersey Giant Tomatoes: 1 lb. 2 oz. (4)
Tomatoes, mixed: 3 lb. 7 oz.
Tomatillos: 5 oz. (6)
Onions: 4 lb. 8 oz.
Cowpeas: 8 oz.
Sky Rocket Tomatoes: 1 lb. 6 oz.
Jalapeño: 3 oz.
Ground Cherries: 5 oz.
Basil: 2 oz.
French Horticulture Beans: 1 lb. 1 oz.
Green, Purple, and Wax beans, mixed: 8 oz.

9/3
Corn: 2 Lb. 5 oz. (4 ears)
Tomatoes: 7 Lb. 2 oz.
Sky Rocket: 1 lb. 4 oz.
Beans (green, wax, purple): 3 lb. 5 oz.
Yard Long Beans: 2 oz. (2)
French Horticulture beans: 7 oz.
Cowpeas: 1 lb. 2 oz.
Tomatillos: 10 oz.
Eggplant: 3 oz. (1)
Fish Peppers: 5 peppers
Ground Cherries: some

9/6
Cowpeas 8 oz.
Ground Cherry: 4 oz.
Tomatillos: 13 oz.
Tomatoes, mixed: 3 lb. 12 oz.
French Horticulture beans: 1 lb.
Wax, Purple, and Green Beans, mixed: 1 lb. 2 oz.

9/7
Butte potatoes: 46 lb. 8 oz. 


Sometime in the last week, I picked 5 lbs of green beans, purple beans, and wax beans, but I can't find the paper with that day's harvest record on it, so some data is missing.