Tracking the Harvest: July and August, 2013
The rainy weather has definitely affected my garden crops, in some ways good and some bad. We had a great summer for cucumbers and zucchini, but the tomatoes have been miserable.
Usually, we get blueberries for two or three (sometimes four!) weeks before the birds find them and our picking is over for the summer. This year the blueberries were late but the birds were right on time, so we got very few of the blueberries. None made it into the freezer.
We’ve had some figs, but the bush is one of the several plants that were smashed when our neighbor’s oak tree fell on our house last summer, so the bush is busier with getting new stems and leaves than with making fruit, and then, of course, there are the birds…
However, the numbers don’t look too bad:
The breakdown by crop, measured in kilograms, is pasted below.
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Tomatoes
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21.35
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Shallots
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3.75
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0kra
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0.4
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Cucumbers
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12.05
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Eggplants
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1.15
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Berries, misc.
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1.05
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Bush beans, green
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1.65
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Peppers
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5.5
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zucchini
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2.7
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Swiss chard
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0.25
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Tomatoes
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7.55
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Peppers
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7.15
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Figs
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1.4
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Melon
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2.45
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Eggplants
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1.7
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Zucchini
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2.1
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Butternut squash, dwarf
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3.5
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Cucumbers
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6.45
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Okra
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1.25
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Bush beans, green
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1.1
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Hope everyone else’s gardens are going well!
Home gardening can provide a lot of good food for families and communities. It’s also some work, but I love it. This blog is about the garden and yard where I “grow my own,” NW of Atlanta, Georgia.
Source: http://atlantaveggies.blogspot.com/2013/08/tracking-harvest-july-and-august-2013.html
