Vegetable | Weight (pounds) | $ Price per pound (Conventional) | Total $ Value (Conventional) | Total $ Value (Organic-30% more) |
Lettuce | 6.52 | 2.49 | 16.23 | 21.11 |
Kohlrabi | 11.99 | 0.99 | 11.87 | 15.43 |
Broccoli | 10.98 | 2.49 | 27.34 | 35.54 |
Sugar Snap Peas | 3.29 | 4.99 | 16.42 | 21.34 |
Cabbage | 42.70 | 0.79 | 33.73 | 43.85 |
Radishes | 0.23 | 1.49 | 0.34 | 0.45 |
Beets & Greens | 15.38 | 2.49 | 38.30 | 49.79 |
Carrots | 6.73 | 1.00 | 6.73 | 8.75 |
Onions | 83.17 | 0.80 | 66.54 | 86.50 |
Green Beans | 11.30 | 1.99 | 22.49 | 29.23 |
Bell Peppers (Red) | 5.77 | 2.99 | 17.25 | 22.43 |
Poblano Peppers | 12.05 | 3.99 | 48.08 | 62.50 |
Tomatoes | 40.49 | 2.49 | 100.82 | 131.07 |
Zucchini | 55.37 | 1.49 | 82.50 | 107.25 |
Cucumbers | 39.99 | 1.30 | 51.99 | 67.58 |
Eggplant | 10.38 | 1.99 | 20.66 | 26.85 |
Corn | 10.03 | 1.50 | 15.05 | 19.56 |
Potatoes | 9.47 | 0.80 | 7.58 | 9.85 |
Butternut Squash | 15.39 | 1.49 | 22.93 | 29.81 |
Sweet Potatoes | 57.75 | 0.99 | 57.17 | 74.32 |
Total | 448.98 | 664.01 | 863.21 | |
448.98 pounds of veggies from 200 square feet of growing area. Worth over $600 using conventional pricing, so I definitely made back what it cost me to grow it (around $200? I have to check.) Not too shabby. Last year’s yield was a paltry 250 pounds. My goal this year was 50% more, or 375 pounds, which I exceeded by almost 75 pounds.
Some things didn’t do as well as I would have liked. I let the lettuce fizzle out when summer rolled around and never got back to it. Ditto for the radishes. I never even picked the chard, which was decimated by sun and bugs. Less than 6 pounds of red bell peppers. Less than 10 pounds of potatoes. And the tomatoes, only 40 pounds? Yeesh.
I was happy with the yield of the cabbage, zucchini, sweet potatoes and cucumbers.
The onion yield was good, but it only lasted about 6 months. I could use twice that. And it wasn’t a good storage variety, so I had to chop them up and throw them in the freezer.
So I know what I need to work on for 2022. Basically, I want more of everything.