With very little help from me the garden kept powering on through February maintaining a vegetable self-sufficiency score in the 60s. I think the only thing I planted this month was a few lettuce to feed our new desire for more greens in the diet.
Grown (g) Purchased (g) Grown %
Avocado 1400 0%
Beans 1,385 800 63%
Beetroot 990 100%
Broccoli 965 100%
Basil 30 100%
Bok Choy 40 100%
Capsicum 530 100%
Carrot 710 0%
Celery
Cucumber 4,480 100%
Corn
Chives 10 0%
Coriander
Eggplant 4,775 100%
Garlic 170 0%
Ginger 180 0%
Kohlrabi 440 100%
Lettuce 340 100%
Lentil 1,600 0%
Onion 2,025 0%
Parsley
Pea 800 0%
Potato 585 0%
Pumpkin 830 100%
Rocket 75 100%
Spring Onion 325 100%
Sweet Potato 725 0%
Spinach
Silverbeet 750 100%
Sprouts 300 100%
Tomato 5,670 100%
Zucchini 4,830 100%
Total 26,755 9,005 75%
Average 62%
Time 10 person hours
The tomatoes and eggplants burst to life this month. I was intending to learn the art of jarring, or canning depending what part of the world you were raised, but Melanie did a fantastic job finding ways to utilise them. It was awesome to just be eating cherry toms by the handful as a snack.
We harvested a wonderful selection of beans - French green, butter, and purple king. Shame the purple ones turn green when cooked. Oh well they look great in garden.
Jason, that is an outstanding result! You put me to shame by about 22 kg.
ReplyDeleteI really have to work on extreme heat protection and make more wicking beds for my summer climate.
Gav
My friend Debbie has wicking beds, the plants in them stand up to the heat really well. Here in Adelaide the heat is extreme too, and I solved the heat problem with ground level beds, drip irrigation, dense multi crop planting, and sunflowers for shade.
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