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The 2008 Harvest

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Vegetables

This is a log describing the food I bring in from the garden in 2008. I’m using the following beds:

Raised bed, 3 m x 1.2 m
Raised bed, 5 m x 1.2 m
Bed, 6 m x 1.2 m
Bed, 6 m x 1.2 m
Bed, 6 m x 1.2 m

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Parsnip:

Parsnip

2008-12-24: 5 pcs. (1258 g)
2008-11-28: 1 pcs. (480 g)
2008-11-18: 1 pcs. (252 g peeled)
2008-11-13: 1 pcs. (364 g)
2008-11-03: 1 pcs. (446 g)
2008-10-20: 1 pcs. (564 g without top)

Total for 2008: 10 pcs. (3.4 kg)
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Tomato:

Tomato

2008-10-01: 30 pcs. (1200 g)
2008-09-24: 1 pcs. (36 g)
2008-09-23: 1 pcs. beef (125 g), 2 pcs. (112 g)
2008-09-18: 1 pcs. beef (52 g), 3 pcs. (138 g)
2008-09-15: 2 pcs. beef (300 g), 2 pcs. (120 g)
2008-09-01: 1 pcs. 20 g
2008-08-23: 1 pcs. 50 g
2008-08-13: 1 pcs. small green (22 g)

Total for 2008: 45 pcs. (2.2 kg)
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Beans:

Beans

2008-10-12: 2460 g
2008-10-01: 266 g
2008-09-20: 1250 g
2008-09-10: 620 g
2008-09-04: 630 g
2008-08-31: 300 g
2008-08-28: 380 g runner
2008-08-25: 250 g short, 66 g runner
2008-08-23: 64 g short
2008-08-20: 87 g short
2008-08-18: 66 g short
2008-08-13: 29 g short
2008-08-11: 16 g short
2008-08-10: 43 g short
2008-08-08: 50 g short

Total for 2008: 6.6 kg
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Peas:

Peas

2008-08-23: 34 g

Total for 2008: 34 g
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Apples:

Apples

2008-09-16: 922 g green
2008-09-12: 539 g green
2008-09-11: 838 g green and red
2008-09-10: 700 g green
2008-09-06: 3200 g green
2008-09-04: 924 g (8 pcs.) red, 319 g (2 pcs.) yellow
2008-08-31: 284 g red, 172 green
2008-08-30: 871 g red
2008-08-27: 94 g (1 pcs.) red
2008-08-25: 785 g red
2008-08-23: 939 g red (with spots)
2008-08-20: 1758 g red (all with spots)
2008-08-18: 538 g red
2008-08-15: 561 g red
2008-08-13: 1053 g (11 pcs.) red
2008-08-12: 752 g (9 pcs.) red
2008-08-10: (10 pcs.) red
2008-08-09: 233 g red
2008-08-08: 298 g red
2008-08-07: 1000 g red
2008-08-03: 900 g red
2008-08-01: 685 g red

Total for 2008: 19 kg
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Onion:

Onion

2008-10-12: 1 pcs. yellow, 1 pcs. red
2008-08-23: 18 pcs. yellow, 8 pcs. red
2008-08-12: 11 pcs. yellow, 16 pcs. red
2008-08-08: 10 pcs. yellow (1330 g with top), 9 pcs. red (1050 g with top)
2008-08-07: 1 pcs. yellow (97 g), 1 pcs. red (126 g)
2008-07-28: 1 pcs. yellow (28 g), 1 pcs. red (42 g)

Total for 2008: 42 pcs. yellow, 36 pcs. red
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Red beet:

Red Beet

2008-10-12: 1 pcs. long
2008-08-08: Round (593 g), long (106 g)
2008-07-28: 12 pcs. (1200 g)
2008-07-18: 12 pcs. round (1500 g), 9 pcs. long (750 g)
2008-07-13: 2 pcs. round, 1 pcs. long

Total for 2008: 43 pcs.
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Squash:

Squash

2008-10-12: 1 pcs. (1260 g)
2008-09-17: 2 pcs. (978 g)
2008-09-06: 2 pcs. (653 g)
2008-09-04: 1 pcs. (654 g)
2008-08-31: 1 pcs. (326 g)
2008-08-27: 1 pcs. (419 g)
2008-08-25: 1 pcs. (289 g)
2008-08-20: 1 pcs. (676 g)
2008-08-10: 1 pcs.
2008-08-03: 1 pcs. (1047 g), 1 pcs. (1037 g), 1 pcs. (166 g)
2008-07-27: 1 pcs. (1815 g)

Total for 2008: 15 pcs. (9.7 kg)
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Radish:

Radish

2008-10-12: x pcs. red and white (360 g)
2008-09-04: 2 pcs. white (31 g)
2008-08-31: 8 pcs. white
2008-08-27: 9 pcs. white
2008-05-28: x, red, white tip
2008-05-31: x, red, white tip
2008-06-03: x, red, white tip
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Carrot:

Carrot

2008-10-12: 3 pcs.
2008-09-17: 23 pcs.
2008-09-16: 7 pcs.
2008-09-09: 8 pcs.
2008-09-04: 6 pcs. (327 g)
2008-07-28: 4 pcs. (145 g)
2008-07-18: 32 pcs. (2600 g)
2008-07-16: 2 pcs. (228 g) + 2 pcs. (183 g)
2008-07-13: 4 pcs.
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Spinach:

Spinach

2008-10-12: 186 g
2008-09-17: 120 g
2008-09-06: 100 g
2008-09-04: 60 g
2008-08-25: 17 g
2008-05-28: x
2008-05-31: x
2008-06-03: x

Total for 2008: 600 g
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Lettuce:

Lettuce

2008-07-18: 3 sinks
2008-06-03: x
2008-07-14: 85 g
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Potatoes:

Potatoes

2008-09-20: 4600 g Bintje, 3440 g Asparagus
2008-09-14: 1055 g Sava
2008-09-13: 871 g Bintje
2008-08-20: 800 g Sava (1 plant)
2008-08-16: 1670 g asparagus
2008-08-10: Asparagus (2 plants), Sava (1 plant)
2008-08-01: 3500 g asparagus (6 plants)
2008-07-30: 1100 g asparagus (2 plants)
2008-07-29: 750 g Sava (1 plant)
2008-07-27: 650 g Sava (1 plant)
2008-07-23: 900 g Sava, 600 g asparagus
2008-07-18: 500 g Bintje (1 plant)
2008-07-17: 800 g asparagus (1 plant)
2008-07-14: 1000 g (1 plant) <- One single potato at 210 g.
2008-07-13: 600 g Sava
2008-07-08: 1000 g Sava (2 plants)

Total for 2008: 22 kg

6 kg Bintje
7.4 kg Sava
12 kg Asparagus
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Total amount of food for 2008: 82 kg.

How NOT To Grow Squash

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Squash

One of my squash fruits seems to be rotting, and one of the leaves seems to be in bad shape too. This is the first time this has happened and I don’t know what is going on here, so please leave a comment if you have an explanation. This particular plant has delivered a couple of fine fruits earlier this summer and I hope it will keep on going despite this bad one.

How To Fight Killer Slugs The Smart Way

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Killer Slug

I think I went a little to crazy with the iron phosphate fighting the killer slugs. As a result it’s hard to find just a single slug in the garden now. I scattered the pills along the sides of the raised beds and the other beds, along the hedge, and around the composting boxes. This method was effective. But then again it wasn’t, since the good guys also died and iron phosphate is quite expensive. So I suggest a better approach.

First of all – put out more ducks. This is not a “too-many-slugs”-problem, it’s a “too-few-ducks”-problem. Although it’s possible to do, it’s not practical in the suburbs. Instead I suggest targeting each individual killer slug with about 5 iron phosphate pills. Compared to collecting and boiling them this is more effective, because when slug starts having some “stomach problems” it will go back to the hive and die. Cannibals as they are the other killer slugs eats it and dies too. This won’t happen when you go and boil them.

Furthermore, the good guys is much less likely to come across the pills when you don’t spray the pills all over like a madman. 5 pills per slug is also much cheaper, so that a box of iron phosphate will probably last for years.