Well the summer peak has definitely passed in our garden with vegetable self-sufficiency down 10% from last month. The garden is looking a bit tired now so we are really looking forward to getting cracking on the winter season. We are just waiting for the chickens to finish preparing the first bed.
Capsicums and Eggplant where the big winners this month. It was interesting to note how long it took for the capsicum to start providing. Even those planted in September only started delivering in March.
A small one-off hit of corn was nice.
Grown (g) Purchased (g) Grown %
Avocado 1055 0%
Beans 140 400 26%
Beetroot 405 450 47%
Broccoli 215 100%
Basil 80 100%
Capsicum 2,375 100%
Carrot 2,045 0%
Cucumber 640 100%
Corn 820 425 66%
Eggplant 3,620 100%
Garlic 95 0%
Ginger 60 0%
Kohlrabi 370 100%
Lettuce 50 1,645 3%
Lentil 800 0%
Onion 90 3,055 3%
Parsley 50 100%
Pea 1,400 0%
Potato 2,645 0%
Rocket 45 100%
Sweet Potato 1,835 0%
Spinach 400 0%
Silverbeet 1,015 100%
Sprouts 450 100%
Tomato 6,415 100%
Zucchini 2,220 100%
Total 19,000 16,310 54%
Average 52%
Time 16 person hours
Very good effort, and a great array of produce. My capsicums and peppers have been an abject failure, so I have no idea if the 6 month wait is normal. I hope they were exceptionally tasty to be worth the wait!
ReplyDeleteYes they are Bek - exceptional, well most of them. I would have liked them when the cucumbers were around to add that extra flavour to our salads. Sorry to hear about yours. Any ideas to what went wrong?
DeleteGreat harvest, Jas! We have eggplants, but our caps are puny - there must be some secret there that we just haven't figured out yet! Did you want some tromboncino seed? They've gone completely bonkers in our garden! Linda sent us seed, and we've collected some from this season's crop as well, so happy to mail you some if you'd like (drop me an email). x
ReplyDeleteYou didn't happen to plant a mini capsicum variety, did you? :) Thanks for the seed offer.
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