July 2018 harvest summary

Weight 15.797kg

Garden produce price: £67.23
Foraged: £36.00

TOTAL SHOP/MARKET PRICE £103.23

Garden crops	Weight g	Shop price
Garlic	2778	£24.30
Potatoes	2531	£5.06
Cucumber	977	£3.89
Carrots	743	£2.68
Courgette	621	£2.48
Runner beans	448	£3.14
Swiss chard	291	£2.19
Peas	234	£1.87
Gooseberries	228	£1.52
Rhubarb	218	£1.36
Broad beans	182	£0.90
Raspberries	160	£1.92
White currants	148	£2.50
Beetroot	133	£1.80
Tomatoes	79	£0.62
Spring onions	59	£1.00
Lettuces, salad leaves, mustard greens, garlic scapes		£6.00
Herbs		£4.00

Foraged:

Hazelnuts       5967    £36.00

June 2018 in pictures

The weather started to heat up significantly this month and we started harvesting significant amouts of fruit and veg.

The peas in particular are doing well this month: Golden Sweet, Blauwschokker, Shiraz and Giant Bijou. 

We have plenty of potatoes and onions this year...

... and garlic scapes, and the best harvest of garlic we have ever had.

On the wildlife front we again have frogs hopping around the shadier and damper areas of the garden and two separate bumple bee nests under the shed.

June 2018 harvest summary

Weight 7.202 kg

TOTAL SHOP/MARKET PRICE £39.49

Garden crops	Weight g	Shop price
Onions	2228	£2.23
Potatoes	2028	£4.06
Strawberries	1308	£10.46
Broad beans	620	£2.67
Peas	348	£2.80
Carrots	170	£1.70
Garlic (6 bulbs)	154	£1.80
Raspberries	130	£1.43
White currants	68	£1.13
Cavolo nero	66	£0.50
Swiss chard	46	£0.35
Curly kale	36	£0.35
Lettuces, salad leaves, mustard greens, garlic scapes		£6.00
Herbs		£4.00

May 2018 in pictures

The bluebells were starting to take over the herb patch and were probably responsible for killing off the chives, which had been there for years. They might be pretty but they were in the wrong place so out they came. In any case, they were the Spanish bluebells and not the native English variety.

After a late start, because of the consistently cold weather, the lettuces and peas are catching up in the gro-beds and I've risked planting out the first few tomato seedlings. The overwintering onions are also starting to fill out. 

In the main part of the garden the broad beans (Eleonora) are doing well. This is the first time I've tried to grow them. Underneath the beans I've scattered some mixed salad leaves seeds together with some carrots.

By the end of the month the beans had really taken off, the potatoes in the grow sacks are surging ahead and the overwintered garlic looks as though it will soon be ready for harvesting.

The rhubarb now seems well established and there was enough for me to experiment and make some rhubarb and citrus marmalade.