November 26, 2012 - The Final Harvest

Today was the final harvest from the garden.  I decided to go ahead and pull the remaining carrots, as I've never had much luck in over wintering them.  The quality always diminishes once the ground freezes.  The only other crops remaining were a few tiny cabbages that had no chance of increasing in size, and a small cutting of celery that was only large enough to chop and freeze for use in soups.

 I pulled 5 pounds of carrots.  Four pounds were nice ones that I'll use for cooking, one pound were small or oddly shaped and will be grated in salads or fed to the dogs as snacks.


 The last four cabbages only weighed 1-1/2 pounds total.  The two tiniest ones were second generation heads that formed on the old stalk after the main head was cut.


Six ounces of celery will be chopped up and frozen for soups.  I'll not be growing celery again, the space it took didn't yield enough to be worthwhile.

Final  Crop Totals (in pounds) for 2012


Only crops grown in 2012 were used for comparison, so the crop totals for years 2009, 2010 and 2011 aren't the actual totals for those years.  Those totals can be found in my side bar.  The entries in red are my record yields for those particular crops.  Herbs grown this year were seldom weighed, as I only accounted for the few I actually preserved by drying and not those used in day to day food preparation.


Visit Daphne's Dandelions to see what others have harvested this week.




14 comments:

  1. Impressive totals!
    And Sue would take those odd shaped carrots. Let the dogs eat the celery-LOL!

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    1. Oh, Sue...I swear, I'm going to plant a bed of carrots just for you next year. Of course you'll be liable for shipping and handling fees, LOL!!!!

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  2. what a great final harvest for 2012!

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    1. Thanks, Mrs. P. It seems like the year went by awfully fast. Here it is, time to begin planning next year's garden!

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  3. Wow almost 200lbs of winter squash. That is a lot of squash to eat. And those cabbages are so cute. I find celery does fine here, but we are cooler than you are. You get a lot of 100Fs over the summer. I don't think celery likes that at all.

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    1. Daphne, you'd be surprised how many of them have already been eaten. I try to bake one a week, I've made several "pumpkin" pies, and son John grabs a couple to take home every time he visits. My later celery, planted in a semi-shaded spot, fared a bit better than the early ones. It still didn't get fat stalks though.

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    2. That is amazing!!! :-) I admire how much food you get in one season-robbie

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    3. Thank you, Robbie. It was quite a successful year.

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  4. Congratulations on your total grown! Can't wait to see what you grow next year! Nancy

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    1. Thganks, Nancy. I'm planning it in my head already!

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  5. Holy cow! What am amazing harvest year you've had! Congratulations :-) And so many potatoes! What's your trick?

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    1. Bee Girl, I think it's my sandy soil and abundant water. Potatoes grow very well here in Eastern Washington. The yield would have been much higher if I hadn't begun to steal so many baby potatoes early on. Some of the red potatoes I dug later were huge!

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  6. It has been great to follow along this year, Granny, with your fantastic harvest results! I think when all said and done, there was just over a hundred pounds from my first attempt. Enough to give the bug of wanting to go all out again next summer when I find the acre!

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    1. Thanks, Cloud. I'll be looking forward to reading about your little house on an acre!

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