Tag Archive for ‘tally ho’
AUGUST HARVEST TALLY
Now that fall is just around the corner I can honestly say this was the COOLEST summer (ever), well, that I can remember. From June-August there were only two or three “really hot” weeks. So Cal gardeners, how did the cool summer affect your garden? Did you find it an easier or harder growing season?
JUNE HARVEST TALLY
June is the tipping point month were things can either go up hill or downhill … and fast! So far, we are holding steady. Some things are growing well, while others not so much.
TALLY HO 2009
Well, 2009 is now one for the books. With all the projects going on it took me awhile to get the final tally from Farmer J but now without further adieu our harvest weigh in for December and then for the year. From our ~1/10 acre garden plot (less than 3900 sq. ft.) our December [...]
TALLY HO
Spent the morning tallying up the harvest figures for March and considering we’d been gone for 6 days we didn’t do too bad. March Tally Produce: 265 lbs produce Eggs (duck & chicken): 213 Care to join in our collective growing effort to grow and harvest 1 million pounds. Folks are posting their March harvest [...]
TALLY HO 2008
Harvest (herbs, fruits, and vegs) 5,500 lbs (or there abouts) Eggs: 2,155 (duck & chicken) Honey: 25 lbs If you have been following us this year, you know that the weather played havoc with our summer crops. Many such as cucumbers and tomatoes were lackluster and poundage considerably down than in previous years. From our [...]
TALLY HOE WINNERS
With one of THE WORST summer harvests in years, with September harvest 524 lbs, the winners for this month’s contest are First place – AZ Gardener – 550# Second place – Yvonnes – 580# Third place – Ann – 627# Congrats! Though we are far from enthusiastic with such an extreme plummet in harvest totals [...]
TALLY HOE CONTEST
Once again it’s time for Freedom Gardeners to guess how many pounds we harvested in September. Click here to enter and your chance to win prizes! You must be a Freedom Gardens member to enter, contest ends this Friday, October 10th. HINT: worst September ever, thanks to the wacky weather that played havoc with the summer [...]
WHAT’S THE STORY MORNING GLORY?
I sure wish the morning glory could tell us what’s up with the weather! Poor thing, she doesn’t even know since she’s a late bloomer. The wacky weather ride continues to challenge us. We are back into a early spring, early winter pattern. The week started off like we were to have a normal Indian summer then now [...]
TALLY HOE CONTEST
Is back! Care to wager a guess our harvest for the month of August? Tally “Hoe” Contest This year, we urban aggies here at Path to Freedom, are on a personal challenge to grow from our annual 6,000 lbs to 10,000 lbs harvest on a 1/10 acre garden – how close will we get to our [...]
“TALLY HOE” WINNERS
Like we said before the summer harvest really never peak like normal years. Normally we harvest nearly 1,000 lbs of tomatoes and this year we’ll be lucky to get half that. Another crop that will be a bummer is the oranges. Just a few on the tree this year when, before the freeze of 07, we’d [...]
