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The Year in Review

Posted on: January 1st, 2012 by Rachel

Now that I've got all the numbers I'm kind of depressed. It wasn't bad in the grand scheme of things, especially with the animals, but compared to last year's crops it's low. The fruit trees don't help. Of the 27 fruit trees we have we only got fruit off of 11 - less than half of them. The total fruit tree poundage came to only … Continue reading the story "The Year in Review"

October’s Totals

Posted on: November 3rd, 2011 by Rachel

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This month has been interesting to say the least. Our garden is definitely dying down. Most of our summer crops, except for a few stragglers have been pulled out. No more tomatoes (more on that later), corn, beans, or cucumbers. The only fruit we harvested … Continue reading the story "October’s Totals"

September Totals

Posted on: October 5th, 2011 by Rachel

September is generally our biggest month. Unfortunately we didn't think ahead and scheduled a vacation right in the middle of it, thus making it less productive than usual. Less harvesting did mean more wasted food. Our green beans finished out their days while we were … Continue reading the story "September Totals"

August’s Harvest Totals

Posted on: September 7th, 2011 by Rachel

August has really been a good ramp up. We've been extra busy harvesting and planting our fall crops. Our totals have more than doubled from July and they'll just keep going up for the month of September.

The beginning of the month we … Continue reading the story "August’s Harvest Totals"

June’s Harvest – almost 47lbs

Posted on: July 6th, 2011 by Rachel

Believe it or not, May beat out June in harvest totals. May beat June by over 25lbs. The majority of the harvest in May, however, was strawberries (27lbs) and artichokes (24lbs). The strawberries really tapered off in June, but they are still producing.

June is kind of a … Continue reading the story "June’s Harvest – almost 47lbs"

Giant Produce

Posted on: August 6th, 2010 by Rachel

Squeek and her pumpkin

As discussed before, Squeek prefers to romp around the vegetable garden rather than stay on her side of the fence. Since she insists on being in there I've decided she might as well be useful … Continue reading the story "Giant Produce"

Jack and the Beanstalk or Things Learned

Posted on: July 7th, 2010 by Rachel

I'm seriously starting to feel like Jack. This year's bean trellises were put in at around 10' high. We thought that would be plenty of space. It apparently isn't. So now they are producing quite heavily. I think I may have planted … Continue reading the story "Jack and the Beanstalk or Things Learned"

Wednesday’s Harvest

Posted on: June 30th, 2010 by Rachel

Baby Cucumbers

This has been a rather productive week here on Dog Island. The summer veggies are starting to roll in. The biggest harvest this week was our very first harvest of cucumbers. We had been keeping … Continue reading the story "Wednesday’s Harvest"

Wednesday’s Harvest

Posted on: June 23rd, 2010 by Rachel

Another week, another dollar...saved. Our zucchini has blown us away. Really, I shouldn't be surprised. I'm more than familiar with their exponentially producing effect. But see, last year we didn't get a single zucchini. We had a salt issue and we were lucky to keep any of our squash … Continue reading the story "Wednesday’s Harvest"

Wednesday’s Harvest

Posted on: June 16th, 2010 by Rachel

Oh boy! It's been a few weeks since I posted our harvest totals. Why? Well, I was on my honeymoon the last couple of weeks. We spent 10 days traveling around the UK from London to Inverness and almost everything in between. When we got … Continue reading the story "Wednesday’s Harvest"