Earlier this month I received an email from Yolanda B in Southeast Indiana :
“ I watch over you , in the past tense , weigh your produce and that was inspiring , so this year I ’ve weighed all of ours . The garden is about done . We ’ll have a few more tomatoes , and some overwintering kale , but otherwise , it ’s finished . Not counting the luffa gourd ( 54.8 # ) , we ’ve brought in 973.24 # this time of year ! I am astonished . ”
I wrote her back two weeks later ( yes , I am behind on my emails ! ) to felicitate her on her success and ask if she had any garden mental picture I could share . She wrote back to say yes , and wrote :
“ As of this dawn , the totality is 998 # . My sis evoke I blame some gage to make up the 2 extra pounds . in reality , I ’m sure I ’ve eaten a lot more than 2 # while solve in the garden . I ’m forever crunch out there . ”
What a lovely garden she make !
moderate out these bean :
And this basket of impudent vegetables :
This Yokohama squash :
About the Yokohama , Yolanda write , “ I implant just one vine and got maybe 10 of them ! ”
Here is some beautiful okra :
Yolanda writes about the picture below , “ Loofah gourd vine . They go demented and roam all over the garden ! ”
Here is a picture of herBloody Butcherdent corn :
And some beautiful squash :
And the gardener herself , with a load of endearing sweet-flavored potatoes :
A thousand pounds of garden truck in 2020 – that ’s good piece of work !
Here ’s my video recording from 2017 show a weighing - in sentence relapsing – this is the process that inspired Yolanda :
Unlike Yolanda , we had a crowd of pre - existing tropical trees on our land which really serve boost the yields .
Rachel just bought us a fresh scale this workweek so it may be meter to start count green groceries again . It is time consuming to keep track of everything , and a little hard when you tend to corrode green goods while in the garden , but it is quite interesting to see what your literal output are . press the harvest time also gives you goals to drum .
I used to keep pretty unspoilt track of our harvesting back on our honest-to-goodness homestead in North Florida , which , at that time , was mostly yielding annuals :
unluckily , we leave behind that place , then I spent about three and a half years renting as an ex - pat , two of which were spend on a property without state . Then I buy land but did n’t live on it all that long .
And now I am renting again .
I do n’t quit , though . We ’ll have our own homestead again eventually . And we ’ve got a handsome garden already get . I actually just picked some leaf mustard viridity for breakfast .
The in force and easiest yields are from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree crops and perennials , specially in the Torrid Zone where jackfruit , mango , banana , pineapple and other high - takings yield push the harvesting weights right smart up . Yet you may do a lot in a backyard garden , too , especially with roots like potatoes and sweet potatoes , or boastfully - fruited annuals like pumpkins and winter squash .
Wherever you are , grow what you could and seek to flummox your own criminal record . It ’s a stack of play – specially when you have other gardening friends doing the same thing . Thanks , Yolanda , for sharing your 2020 gardening achiever !
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