August harvest and foraging summary 2016

As well as the garden harvest this month's summary also covers our foraging activity, including the hazelnuts we picked up in Turkey. This presents a problem for calculating the worth of some of the items as they are not available in most shops. So we have had to do a rough calculation using the prices for similar types of produce, for example the price of plums to work out the worth of the damsons.



Garden harvest total 12.266kg
Garden harvest worth £76.30
Foraged food total 18.4kg
Foraged food worth £162.00

TOTAL WORTH     £238.30

Garden crops

Potatoes	2552	£5.10
Green courgette	2388	£11.94
Runner beans	2208	£13.23
Cucumber	1440	£7.00
Yellow courgette	718	£3.59
Tomatoes	506	£5.06
Cabbage	502	£1.00
Damsons	498	£2.49
Beetroot	302	£2.42
Carrots	294	£1.76
Sweet peppers	222	£0.80
Squash	146	£0.70
Cavolo nero	106	£0.66
Gooseberries	92	£0.65
Grapes	84	£0.50
Peas	82	£1.00
Curly kale	64	£0.40
Spring onions	44	£2.50
Pea shoots	18	£0.50
Estimate for herbs		£10.00
Estimate for salad leaves		£5.00

Foraged food

Hazelnuts	4600	£69.00
Apples	4200	£8.00
Blackberries	3500	£42.00
Elderberries	3220	£32.00
Damsons	2880	£11.50

July - harvest summary

The amount we gather and harvest from the garden is recorded in a Google spreadsheet which is available for anyone to view. We started off by recording everything that we gathered from the garden but we keep forgetting to note down small amounts of salad leaves that are picked throughout the day e.g. cut and come again lettuces, dandelion leaves, young beetroot leaves. The column for lettuce will be removed from the spreadsheet from 2017 onwards.

Since June we have been estimating how much we would have spent had we bought the fruit and veg in a shop or at the local Farmers' Market. The problem is that many of the varieties we grow are not available in the local shops so we have decided to take an average of  the prices across a range of the varieties that are available as well as organic options. As we are no longer recording lettuces or salad leaves we shall include an amount that we think we would have spent on them over the month. Similarly, we shall include a rough figure for the herbs that we pick. At this time of year it is a lot: chives, oregano, mint, lemon balm, rosemary, basil, lovage, lemon verbena, parsley, coriander.

Weights in the table are in grams

Total harvest 8.215kg

Total harvest worth  £60.40

Cucumber	838	£4.00
Peas	1460	£14.60
Runner beans	170	£1.20
Swiss chard	50	£0.38
Beetroot	368	£1.84
Potatoes	1940	£3.88
Cabbage	542	£1.00
Cauliflower	710	£2.00
Onions	1354	£1.50
Spring onions	28	£2.00
Garlic	380	£12.00
Strawberries	48	£0.50
White currants	85	£0.50
Estimate for herbs		£10.00
Estimate for salad leaves	242	£5.00