Tuesday 23 August 2016

July - harvest summary

The amount we gather and harvest from the garden is recorded in a Google spreadsheet which is available for anyone to view. We started off by recording everything that we gathered from the garden but we keep forgetting to note down small amounts of salad leaves that are picked throughout the day e.g. cut and come again lettuces, dandelion leaves, young beetroot leaves. The column for lettuce will be removed from the spreadsheet from 2017 onwards.

Since June we have been estimating how much we would have spent had we bought the fruit and veg in a shop or at the local Farmers' Market. The problem is that many of the varieties we grow are not available in the local shops so we have decided to take an average of  the prices across a range of the varieties that are available as well as organic options. As we are no longer recording lettuces or salad leaves we shall include an amount that we think we would have spent on them over the month. Similarly, we shall include a rough figure for the herbs that we pick. At this time of year it is a lot: chives, oregano, mint, lemon balm, rosemary, basil, lovage, lemon verbena, parsley, coriander.

Weights in the table are in grams

Total harvest 8.215kg
Total harvest worth  £60.40

Cucumber
838
£4.00
Peas
1460
£14.60
Runner beans
170
£1.20
Swiss chard
50
£0.38
Beetroot
368
£1.84
Potatoes
1940
£3.88
Cabbage
542
£1.00
Cauliflower
710
£2.00
Onions
1354
£1.50
Spring onions
28
£2.00
Garlic
380
£12.00
Strawberries
48
£0.50
White currants
85
£0.50
Estimate for herbs
£10.00
Estimate for salad leaves
242
£5.00


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