So far, so good!

[frustratedearthmother]

I've decided to try and keep track of what we get from the garden this year. As usual, I'm starting late - but it'll give me an idea of how we're doing. I'm weighing all the produce that we get and will try to keep it up for the entire season.

Of course, I didn't weigh any of the peas or greens or lettuces or cabbages from the early spring garden - so this is summer stuff only.

Started picking/weighing about a week ago

So far:

Green beans - 8.56 lbs

Zucchini - 12.38 lbs

Yellow squash - 4.43 lbs

White squash - 2.56 lbs

Total: 27.93 lbs of produce.

The beans I've picked are from the first planting of bush beans. I've got more pole beans planted along with two later plantings of green beans and a planting of lima beans that haven't started blooming yet. Corn is not being good to me this year - I've already planted twice - but yesterday evening I think I found out what's happening to the corn. As I was walking through the garden I saw a furry critter bounding away...geeze. I think bunnies are cute and all - but truth is I like corn more.... I need to come up with something to deter the little darlings before I decide to make soup out of 'em. I don't really like rabbit meat that much, but I'll bet the dogs would.

I'm ready for the tomatoes to start ripening...got tons of little green ones, but nothing ripe yet...

 

[Denim Deb]

And I'm still waiting on peas! Though I do finally have some flowers on some!

 

[sleuth]

Really? You're picking beans already? :/

I'm jealous. I just got our seeds in the ground. Been too wet and too busy at my real job to get them in any sooner, but around here (Ohio), I didn't even think you were supposed to plant them until last week.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Well - I'm a little bit south of you!

I'm in Texas, south of Houston, so our growing season is fairly long. In fact, we can pretty well keep something going year round.

 

[sleuth]

Well - I'm a little bit south of you!

I'm in Texas, south of Houston, so our growing season is fairly long. In fact, we can pretty well keep something going year round.

God bless Texas!

One of these days, I'm going to move me and the wife there. Love that place.

 

[baymule]

I'm 75 miles north of Houston and we pretty much have an all year round garden too.......well........ maybe not AUGUST! Great minds must run in the same gutter--I just bought a kitchen scale today! That won't include the carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, English peas, lettuce from the fall/early early spring garden as those are done, eaten and gone. But it will count for the summer garden. I've picked squash twice and got 16.6 pounds. Will pick squash again tomorrow. My green beans are just starting to vine, it will be a month or two before I start picking. Little green tomatoes all over the place. Potatoes peeking out from their earthen beds.....will dig them soon.

Does jelly count? I am picking hundreds of dandelion flowers almost daily for tea and I finally made jelly last week. Wow! i can't believe how good that stuff is! Weeds!! Who knew?

How big is your garden frustratedearthmother? Mine is small beds scattered about the front yard, crammed with everything I can stuff in the dirt and make grow.