Brandon and I have been recording every single item that we have harvested from the garden and we are absolutely amazed at the amount of food that can be produced in such a small space. The purpose of this post is to show you what can be produced in your own back yard over the course of six months with optimal growing conditions. Our first harvest was on April 6th of 2011 and this includes everything up to today.
We’ll start with the tomatoes. We planted 9 “Uncle Mark Bagby” beefsteak style tomato plants, 3 Royal Chico roma-style tomatoes, 10 San Marzano Lungo #2 plants, 1 Super Sioux, 1 Yellow Taxi plant, 1 Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato plant and 1 Yellow Pear plant. The following are the weights of each variety:
Uncle Mark Bagby: 14,772 grams (32.57lbs)
Royal Chico: 1,460grams (3.22lbs)
San Marzano: 3,384 grams (7.46lbs)
Super Sioux: 773 grams (1.70lbs)
Yellow Taxi: 483.02 grams (106lbs)
Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes: 267 tomatoes total
Yellow Pear Tomato: 26 tomatoes total
TOMATO TOTAL WEIGHT: 20,872 grams plus 293 cherry/pear tomatoes (46.01lbs)
DAIKON RADISH: 5,143.74grams (11.34lbs)
CINCINNATI MARKET RADISH: 453.6grams (1.00lbs)
NERO TONDO RADISH: 1,587.6grams (3.5lbs)
RADISH TOTAL WEIGHT: 7,184.94 grams (15.84lbs)
ARTICHOKES TOTAL WEIGHT: 2,518.72 grams (5.55lbs)
PAC CHOI TOTAL WEIGHT: 567 grams (1.25lbs)
KOMATSUNA ASIAN GREENS TOTAL WEIGHT: 9,979 grams (22lbs)
TENDERSWEET CABBAGE TOTAL WEIGHT: 8,618 grams (18.99lbs)
SNAP PEAS TOTAL WEIGHT: 184.27 grams (.41lbs)
PARISIENNE CARROT TOTAL WEIGHT: 425.04 grams (.94lbs)
JAPANESE EGGPLANT TOTAL WEIGHT: 2,459.7 grams (5.46lbs)
BLACK BEAUTY ZUCCHINI TOTAL WEIGHT: 16,276.96 grams (35.88lbs)
GREEN BEAN TOTAL WEIGHT: 672.39 grams (1.48lbs)
PURPLE BEAN TOTAL WEIGHT: 175.36 grams (.39lbs)
TASTY JADE CUCUMBER TOTAL WEIGHT: 1,384.89 grams (3.05lbs)
PICKLE CUCUMBER: 971.57 grams (2.14lbs)
EUREKA HYBRID CUCUMBER: 1,498 grams (3.3lbs)
BROWN ONIONS: 1,670.42 grams (3.68lbs)
TOTAL GARDEN HARVEST WEIGHT: 82,643.20 grams (182.20 lbs)
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Posted by urban desert garden on June 21, 2011 at 4:10 pm
We forgot to mention the actual square footage of the garden. We have 4 small beds totaling 280 square feet of growing space. We think that we can reach a much higher volume next year once the extreme desert garden learning curve wears off.