Weighing In
One of my New Year’s Resolutions (that I didn’t write down because I worried that I wouldn’t be able to do it with a new baby) was to keep quantitative track of how much food we are producing from our garden. I started weighing everything we harvested at the beginning of March and here are the March and April numbers:
March:
- Peas: 400 grams
- Parsley: 78 grams
- Total: 478 grams (1.05 lbs)
April:
- Peas: 609 grams
- Total: 609 grams (1.34 lbs)
We’re actually doing better than the above numbers show because we harvest lettuce constantly for salads, fajitas, burgers, etc. and I never remember to weigh it. Thomas also picks a few strawberries nearly every day and they never make it out of the front yard much less to the scale. I can hardly wait until we start harvesting tomatoes, squash, and watermelons – those will be some big numbers (I hope!).