Citysister's Homestead Harvest


Seeds (bought and Saved/free)
Veggies
Broccoli- De Cicco
Winter Squash- Waltham Butternut
Pumpkin- Long Pie
Pepper- California wonder
Beet-Cylindra
Gord- large bottle
Pea- Sugar Daddy
Garden Bean- Provider
Potato- Yukon Gold
Onion Sets- Common Red
Onion Sets- Common Yellow
Painted Mountain Flour Corn
Ashworth Corn
National Pickleing Cucumber
Tomato- Gilbertie Paste
Tomato- Moskovich
Spinach- Bloomsdale Longstanding
Lettuce- Black Seeded Simpson
Carrots- Scarlet Nantes
Pumpkin- Baby Pam Pie, Long Island Cheese
Jalapeno
Swiss Chard- Bright Lights

Herbs
Thyme- common
Rosemary-Romero
True Lavender
Cilantro
Common Sage
Sweet Basil
Dill
German Chamomile
Lemon Balm

Flowers
Echinacea
Nasturtium
Cosmos-Gazebo mix
Zinnia- Oklahoma Mix
Calendula- Pacific Beauty Mix
Marigold
Sunflower-Mammoth
cosmos- bright lights mixed


Cost:
High Mowing- $44.00
Home Depot- $36.68
Local Feed and Supply- $15.98
Saved/free-$0.00 (hahaha)
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Total $96.67



Seeds Started
Onion (2-9) crop failure!
Lavender (2-9) crop failure!
Sweet Potatoes (2-10) crop failure!
Sunflowers (3-18) eaten by chipmunks
Spinach (3-19) sprouted 3-22
Lettuce (3-19) sprouted 3-22
Carrots (3-19)
Broccoli (3-25) 2 inches high
transplant outside 5-9
Thyme (3-25) 1 inch high
Tomato- Limbaugh Legacy (3-25)

Gilbertie Paste (4-5)
Moskovich (4-5)

Pepper-California Wonder (3-25)
Rosemary (3-25)
Lavendar (3-25)
Beets (4-7)
Peas (4-7)

Potatoes (5-13 popping up)
Onion (5-13 getting nice leaves)

Strawberries over 100 plants (8-28)

Planted Previous Years
Garlic (Started last fall) doing well
Raspberries (three years ago) need to be pruned
Blackberries (Last Fall) starting to have little leaf buds (3-26)
Strawberries (three years ago) raked and need some straw (3-25)
Apple Tree (here when house bought)  Cut down...diseased

Harvested
March
.1 oz oregano and chives
(I know...vast harvest!)
(.006 lbs total)

April
1 oz oregano and chives
(.07 lb total)

May
14.4 oz lettuce and spinach
2 oz chive flowers (in a quart of vinegar)
1 oz chive leaves
(1.1 lbs total)

June
.5 oz carrots (greens removed)
1 lb  7oz beets and greens
14 oz russet potatoes
14 oz red potatoes
4.6 oz raspberries
8 oz swiss chard
3.7 oz onion
14.6 oz carrots
(6.25  lbs total)

July
2 lb 3 oz garlic
9 oz onion
.2 oz calendula
4 oz swiss chard
1 lb 13 oz cukes
11 lbs 14 oz potatoes
5 lbs 5 oz green beans
8 oz calendula
(28.75 lbs total)

August
11 lbs 2 oz Long Pie Pumpkin
1 lb 6 oz cukes
3lbs tomatoes
6.7 oz dry green beans (seed)
2 lb 4 oz green beans
3 oz carrots
2 lb baby pam pumpkin
1.7 oz onion
4 lb 14 oz potatoes (true blue fingerling)
1 oz swiss chard
12 oz calendula
(41.4 lbs total)



Chicken Eggs
10 chickens (as of 8-1 8 chickens...)
2 Red Comets (5  years old)
2 Barred Plymouth Rocks (2 years old)
1 unknown (maybe Delaware 1 year old)
5 Red Star (August, last year)
January-11
February-47
March-75
April-169
May-145
June-on vacation (estimate 5/day) 155
July-on vacation (estimate 5/day) 155
August-130
September
October
November
December
Total (so far)
887 (74 dozen)

Cost of Feed
January-$0
February- $12.99 feed
$7.00 Mill Scraps
March- $0
April- $14.99 Feed (50#)
May-$14.99 feed (50#)
June- $15.98 (50#)
July- $16.84 (50#)
August- $16.84 (50#)
Total-$99.63

Cost Per Dozen
about $1.35 (as of end of August)