Monday, July 20, 2009

Tomatoes, cucumbers & pole beans

This is what I pulled from the garden this morning. An Heirloom Beefsteak, 7 cherry tomatoes, and four pickling cucumbers. Not bad for a Monday morning! I plan on making "refrigerator pickles" from these cucs and see how they turn out.



I'm also knee-deep in Kentucky Wonder pole beans. I harvested 3.5 pounds of them already from just 2 squares. And there are a lot more nearly ready beans on the vine, as well as the next wave starting to form. I had so many, I had to freeze most of them.


I've been keeping track of my harvest to get an estimate of the value of the produce I'm growing, using average store prices as a guide. So far, I've pulled about $80 worth from the garden. I'm pretty pleased with that, especially considering the tomatoes (a high value crop around here) are just starting to come in.

3 comments:

  1. Wow, nice savings!

    I'm nowhere near recouping money spent on my garden... Hopefully I'll have some luck with this fall's harvest.

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  2. Those look great!!!! You'll have such fresh food, plus save. It is so cool to fill up a basket of fresh food from the garden each day. Last 2 days, been on my hands and knees poking my head into the tomato plants and sure enough, there are lots of tomatoes hiding in there. Look closely.

    SG

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