Vegetable Backyard in the City: Starting line ...

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Starting line ...

We moved into this house 8 years ago. The plot originally had a plum tree, 2 pear trees, 2 apricot trees and a grape vine. Old age and backyard reorganization has us down to 1 plum tree, 1 pear tree and 1 apricot tree. Our neighbours have a VERY prolific mulberry tree that comes over our fence. We also have a rain barrel.

I started a herb garden several summers ago and I've been casually vegetable gardening for a couple of summers now, but this summer I'm getting serious. I want to see how much good quality, organic food I can grow in our tiny backyard and how much food in total I can gather including all the fruit.

I'm going to track how much money and time I spend, how much city water versus water from my rain barrel I use, and how much food I gather!

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Gordon LucasJanuary 8, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Make it grow yo!
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PLANTING SUMMARY

Harvesting

Type	Planter	Vegetable	Yield	Effective Cost
Greens	C	Basil	40g	$1.00
	SI	Bright Lights Swiss Chard	830g	$4.50
	SJ	Bright Lights Swiss Chard	110g	$4.50
	AA	Magenta Mountain Orach	15g	$2.00
	AC	Rouge de Grenoblaise Lettuce	4 heads	$2.00
	AB	Rouge d'Hiver Lettuce	20g & 3 heads	$2.00
	Conventional Bed	Swiss Chard	75g	$0.00
Peas/Beans	AL	Black Valentine Bush Bean	45g	$4.50
	Conventional Bed	Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea	370g	$0.00
	Conventional Bed	Tendergreen Bush Bean	20g	$0.00
Root Veg	SF	Danver Half-Long Carrot	5g & 3 baby carrots	$4.50
	SG	Garlic	85g	$4.50
	Conventional Bed	Multi-Coloured Carrots	23g	$0.00
	SH	Onion	15g & 4 small onions	$4.50
Zucchini	AG	Cocozelle Zucchini	160g	$4.50
	AF	Cocozelle Zucchini	145g	$4.50

Growing

Type	Planter	Vegetable	Effective Cost
Cucumber	Conventional Bed	Mideast Prolific Cucumber	$0.00
	AE	National Pickling Cucumber	$4.50
Fruit	SB	Everbearing Strawberry	$2.25
	Pear Tree	Pear	$0.00
	AJ	Strawberry	$4.50
	AI	Strawberry	$4.50
	AH	Strawberry	$4.50
Greens	Hanging	Basil	$0.50
	SA	Basil	$2.25
	SD	Basil	$2.25
Peppers	AD	Aurora Hot Pepper	$4.50
	Clear	Aurora Hot Pepper	$2.00
	SC	Marconi Sweet Pepper	$2.25
	RD	Marconi Sweet Pepper	$2.00
Root Veg	Conventional Bed	Blue Potato	$0.00
	Conventional Bed	Fingerling Potato	$0.00
	AK	Horseradish	$4.50
	Conventional Bed	Little Finger Carrot	$0.00
	Plum Tree	Plum Purple Radish	$0.00
	Conventional Bed	Red Potato	$0.00
Tomatoes	B	Black Zebra Tomato	$2.00
	A	Black Zebra Tomato	$2.00
	D	Bloody Butcher Tomato	$2.00
	F	Bloody Butcher Tomato	$2.00
	E	Bloody Butcher Tomato	$2.00
	G	Czech Select Tomato	$2.00
	SE	Jaune Flame	$2.25
	Hanging	Jaune Flame	$0.50
	Hanging	Sweet Pea	$0.50
	Hanging	Sweet Pea	$0.50

Harvested

Type	Planter	Vegetable	Yield	Effective Cost
Fruit	Apricot Tree	Apricot	None - Late Spring Frost	$0.00
	Mulberry Tree	Mulberry	10 cups	$0.00
Greens	SD	Arugula	200g	$2.25
	Conventional Bed	Lettuce	18 heads	$0.00
	SE	Lettuce	24g	$2.25
	SA	Spinach	400g	$2.25
	Conventional Bed	Spinach	500g	$0.00
Root Veg	Conventional Bed	Onion	10 small onions	$0.00
	SC	Plum Purple Radish	7	$2.25

Deceased

Type	Planter	Vegetable	Yield	Effective Cost
Tomatoes	SB	Black Zebra Tomato		$2.25
	C	Czech Select Tomato		$1.00

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