Our harvest
I will just do a short post about our harvest, we were kind of afk at that time so I never got around to post about it.
This is what 7.7 kg of cherry tomatoes look like. Our final harvest of cherry tomatoes ended at 15.5 kgs (34lbs).
It was mid august and the weather forcast said snow and minus degrees later that week so we had to hurry and get everything out of the garden. So we cut all the tomatoes of with their branches and let them mature indoors and bagged them when they had turned red and froze them. We hardly got any big tomatoes because the birds (magpies, crows, and all other kind of birds) ate them as soon as they ripened...
This was a start. Some potatoes. Broad beans - we didnt get much for broad beans so the ones we got we saved as seeds for next season. Our onions were soooo small?! Im guessing partly because our soil is very heavy clay mix, the sun just scorch our garden from 11am to 6ish so and then later the potatoe leaves fell over them and they got no sun whatsoever. Thats my theory. You guys got any ideas? (they were sets we bought and planted)
This is the rest. Its now January and we only gone through a box or so of potatoes haha. I think we went a bit overboard with 17 rows. We got some corn, we took them out of their husks (we saved it and Brock used them later and made a vegetable broth, so yummy) and froze them.
This is me and Edie going through our ground cherries (physalis) as they are maturing and putting them in the freezer. I stuck them on a tray and froze them, and then put them in bags.
And lastly some seeds we saved. I folded little cones from wax paper and stuck them in. We're so excited to use them this year :)
Snow in August?!! That is a very short growing season!
Lovely to see your harvest, especially after the early posts where you were setting everything up. Your posts were one of the things that inspired me to think differently about my own garden and re-imagine it as a food forest. Well, small copse 😊.
The potatoes look grand, I'm going to try growing them for the first time this year.
Right!! Its not common though, we usually get snow in october or maybe late, late september. But yes, a lot of people were caught off guard, and just left their crops - they figured it would maybe be a light snowfall but it snowed for days. Saw lots of pictures of people trying to find their produce in the snow haha
Thanks! Its so much fun to share them :) And we're quite pleased with what we did get out of the garden, I was in rough shape the last 3 weeks of the pregnancy, Brock barely slept from working nights and trying to get stuff and things done. It was quite hectic there for a while.
Thats so cool to hear that you found inspiration in what we wrote :)
This was our first year growing them in the ground, last year we had them in buckets. Just put soil in the bottom and then filled it up as the stalks grew. We got some really tasty potatoes
Wow that is such a great harvest, it is so so satisfying growing your own and the taste is just amazing, I didn't do potatoes last year I was away a lot so missed my chance but this year for sure. well done and good idea freezing the tomatoes in trays x
Thank you! :)
Yes it sure is! And we're so greatful for what we did get. We struggled alot with wildlife, deer kept eating all our beans and tomato plants. Birds our tomatoes. We got 2 squash, the rest on our plants died in the snow. But, im pumped for this season, its going to be so much easier not being pregnant haha.
Yes, we started doing that with our saskatoon berries and rasberries. So I figured we try it with tomatoes and ground cherries too.
Lo9ks like a great harvest. Its such a busy time but so good!! Rewarding and yum too.
Thank you :)
Yes, we had 2 crazy days where we harvested everything. Brock worked night and didnt sleep more than 2 hours i think, but we got it done hehe. Mm soo yummy. We sorted through the potatoes and any with scratches on or damage we chopped them up to fries or hashbrowns and put in the freezer. Its so convenient to just grab a bag, pour a couple in the pan and fry for breakfast.