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Commenced:	01/10/1998
Submitted:	12/03/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Bonny Doon, CA, US
Climate zone:	Mediterranean

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Posted by Debra Baker over 11 years ago

summary of what is saved from the harvests

I am always amazed at the garden yield, for litle work. I have always had trouble with dry beans, but we did manage to get enough of a yield, 3 or 4 lbs, this year to be able to seed for next yeat. Popcorn was ok, potatoes yield was low, 24 lbs for 48 sq ft. Butternut squash and tomatoes and peppers were fantastic. Berries yielded fantastic, blackberries and raspberries. Tree crops, not too good, mostly due to birds and squirrel predation. New Chestnut polinizer almost big enough to help. The few chestnuts yielded tho had an easy to remove inner skin, as opposed to my neighbors heritage chestnut tree, which yelds fantastice, but we have alot of trouble getting the skin off ! I did alot of gleaning of fruit too.

Numbers are: 106 pints of canned tomatoes, 1/2 gallon jar full of dried tomatoes. 25 quarts apple juice, 28 12oz jars applesauce, 9 jars apple slices, 5 lbs dried apple rings. 5 quarts blackberries canned, a few pounds frozen raspberries and blackberries. 20 jars plum jam, 25 jars spicy plum sauce, 4 quarts plum pie filling. 7 jars pears diced, 1/2 pound dried pears. Dried persimmons, in process, will be 10 gallons fresh dried in slices. 5 lbs raisons dried from our grapes. Pickled cukes, green beans and carrots. 24 lbs potatoes, 24 butternut squash, some very, very large, inor amount garlic. 20 lbs chestnuts from neighbor trying to figure out how to use. The squirels ate every single hazelnut, and those tress were loaded !

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