June Harvest Tally
I’ve been keeping track of just about everything we’ve been harvesting from the gardens this year with my handy dandy Garden Harvest Spreadsheet that I made up. It’s been great to watch all of my totals add up.
So far strawberries are our winning harvest, totaling over 25 pounds (and we’ve still got some more ripening). When I was at the grocery store I saw organic berries for $4.99/lb, that means we’ve saved over $120 – WOW. We froze some to make jam later, enjoyed a strawberry pie, some strawberry rhubarb crisp and strawberry pancake syrup, as well as a good amount of strawberry shortcake.
I’ve also been harvesting peas from the few plants that the deer didn’t find. Not as much as I had hoped, I have none tucked away in the freezer because we ate the 2 pounds (both shelled & sugar snap) harvested. We also harvested a half pound of herbs including: lemon thyme, thyme, chives, basil, oregano, and mint. A pound of lettuce is also on my tally as well as 2 pounds of sour cherries we picked at my mom’s house.
My mom also invited me to pick some wild black raspberries are her house yesterday and I was able to pick 3 pounds. And the final exciting thing that made it in our June tally was 1.5 pounds of honey!
One of the frames in the hive was drawn out weird so we removed it and added a fresh frame, it happened to be about 1/3 filled with honey, so we harvested it. I must say, our bees make some pretty good honey!
What’s been in your harvest basket lately?
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That’s so cool you got honey already! We’re still harvesting lettuce and peas, with the addition of beets, chard, and broccoli. No tomatoes yet. Boo.
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Very impressive harvest thus far! For me, tomatoes, chard, lettuce, onions, fava beans, a few peppers, herbs…
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Good work on the harvest! My June tally went up significantly too – particularly in the second half of the month. I have been logging my harvest amounts into a daily calendar and then summing at the end of the month – but I downloaded your spreadsheet and may give that a try for July.
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We’re pretty thin so far but we’ve had (straw, blue, rasp)berries and broccoli. I’ll take a big harvest of honey in a month or so and I am very excited for that!
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I can’t wait to see how much honey you get. I’m sure you’ll be posting about that on your blog.
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Your harvests look very nice and what a great pea photo. I could never freeze peas, both because of my limited space and because they are just to good fresh. I’ve been harvest a lot of spring crops, tones of lettuce literally, greens, broccoli, peas (shelling & snap), radishes, garlic thinnings, kohlrabi & one hot pepper. I think that sums it up. I am dieing for tomatoes, cucumbers & potatoes!
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I’m also so excited for tomatoes. My harvest tally should really go through the roof when all of my tomatoes start producing. Of course that will keep my preservation efforts into high gear as well (as if I don’t have enough to do already).
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It is a busy time of year that’s for sure!
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What a harvest! The strawberries especially.
Lately I’ve been swimming through all kinds of lettuce and other greens (chard and kale especially), radishes, and cucumbers. Squash is starting to slowly make its way onto my table, as are peas, kohlrabi, sugar-snap peas, Strawberries have been it for fruit, though I can’t wait for blueberries – hopefully we’ll make it to the farms for picking this weekend!
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We’ve been harvesting zuchinni, cucumbers, beans and green peppers, and our tomatoes are FINALLY starting to turn red…yippee yahoo!
We also have a quite a few melons, tho they are on the small side and many seemed to have stopped growing. Not sure what’s up with that….sigh.
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I didn’t know you were keeping bees too! I find them the perfect compliment to the garden, and I have to get out to the hives tomorrow.
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