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Annual totals 2021

VegetableWeight (pounds)$ Price per pound (Conventional)Total $ Value (Conventional)Total $ Value (Organic-30% more)
Lettuce6.522.4916.2321.11
Kohlrabi11.99 0.9911.8715.43
Broccoli10.982.4927.3435.54
Sugar Snap Peas3.294.9916.4221.34
Cabbage42.70 0.7933.7343.85
Radishes0.23 1.490.340.45
Beets & Greens15.38 2.4938.3049.79
Carrots 6.73 1.006.738.75
Onions83.17 0.8066.5486.50
Green Beans 11.30 1.9922.4929.23
Bell Peppers (Red)5.77 2.9917.2522.43
Poblano Peppers12.05 3.9948.0862.50
Tomatoes40.492.49100.82131.07
Zucchini55.37 1.4982.50107.25
Cucumbers39.991.3051.9967.58
Eggplant10.38 1.9920.6626.85
Corn10.03 1.5015.0519.56
Potatoes9.47 0.807.589.85
Butternut Squash15.39 1.4922.9329.81
Sweet Potatoes57.75 0.9957.1774.32
Total448.98664.01863.21
2021 Total Vegetable Yield

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.

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More Than Last Year!

It’s August 15 and today I surpassed last year’s yield of 250 pounds. Picking these six eggplant helped.

I need to harvest another 125 pounds to meet my goal, but the garden’s still going strong, so it’s definitely doable.

August garden
The garden in August

The zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, beans and cucumbers are still producing. Plus, I planted broccoli (under the row cover), cabbage, carrots, beets and radishes to harvest in the fall. I’m also going to start some lettuce.

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Yield Tracker 2021

carrots growing in December

Through December 31:

448.98 lbs. harvested, 73.98 lbs. over goal!

Through November 30:

445.99 lbs. harvested, 70.99 lbs. over goal!

Through October 31:

442.55 lbs. harvested, 67.55 lbs. over goal!

Through September 30:

361.94 lbs. harvested, 13.06 lbs. to go!

Through August 31:

293.03 lbs. harvested, 81.97 lbs. to go!

Through July 31:

196.14 lbs. harvested, 178.86 lbs. to go!

Through June 30:

93.01 lbs. harvested, 281.99 lbs. to go!

Through May 31:

27.34 lbs. harvested, 347.66 lbs. to go!

Through April 30:

0.67 lbs. harvested, 374.33 lbs. to go!

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2021 Garden Goals

Every year I draw up a plan for the garden. This is this year’s.

2021 Garden Plan
2021 Garden Plan

It’s not a terribly sophisticated rendering, and I’m sure the scale and orientation are more than a little off, but it keeps me organized. It lets me easily see if everything I want to plant is accounted for and if I have any sun-blocking issues caused by taller plants. I can also compare it with last year’s diagram to make sure I’m rotating properly.

The growing areas are outlined in blue and the fence is in black. Natural obstacles like stumps and trees are outlined in red. I have left some things out though: there’s another fence and a line of trees behind Bed #6 (they belong to the neighbor).

Each bed is 4 feet wide and 8 feet long. The planting areas for the cucumbers and zucchini are each about 2 square feet. The containers for the potatoes and peppers are actually grow bags that are about 21 inches in diameter. That gives me about 192 + 4 + 9.6 = 205.6 square feet of growing area.

Last year’s yield was 250 pounds. This year’s goal is 50% more, or 375 pounds. Can we do it? Gosh I hope so.