Comments on: How To Store Your Garden Produce http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/ A blog for natural families with green values Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Garden flags http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/comment-page-1/#comment-63321 Garden flags Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:53:59 +0000 http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/#comment-63321 Thanks for the useful information Thanks <a href="http://www.flagsforyou.com/garden-flags-c-1373_1376.html" title="Garden flags" rel="nofollow">Garden flags</a> Thanks for the useful information

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]]> By: Annie http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Annie Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:40:48 +0000 http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/#comment-618 Laura:
I’ve been a family gardener for several decades and I’m still not able to accurately predict the yield on my garden. There are a lot of books to give a sort of guideline but farming is unpredictable. I use The Square Foot Gardener as a reference for how to space veggies and what to expect (approximately) as a yield. But it’s always been an adventure. For example: My husband dearly loves yellow crookneck squash. More than one bush floods the family with enough squash to feed a family of four, all friends who don’t duck when they see us coming, the chickens and still I feel wasteful for those which end up in the compost pile. One year I decided that enough was enough and we would only plant one bush. The bush was trampled by an over zealous puppy and we were squash-less for an entire season. So, now I plant two and hope for a poor yield.

This year was a bumper crop for broccoli and green beans, but my onions were smaller than usual. I have found it pays to be adaptable; after all, that pursuit of consistency and maximum yield is what drove the commercial produce market to become what it is now. I plant what I believe will feed my family, and then wait to see what the ground gives me.

]]> By: Laura http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Laura Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:31:28 +0000 http://www.naturemoms.com/blog/2006/06/09/how-to-store-your-garden-produce-2/#comment-387 This book looks interesting. Another good one along the same lines is and old standby, Putting Food By (Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, and Beatrice Vaughan). What I can't seem to find is a formula to help those of us new to self-sufficiency get started and decide how much of which things to plant. I'd love to find a book that says, okay, for a family of four you're going to need X pounds of green beans, X pound of potatoes, etc. with a few tips on how to tweak the formula to fit your family's unique needs and then information on how many plants you will need. How many pounds of tomatoes does one plant generally produce? How many pounds of beans can you get from a 20 foot row of vines or bush beans? I'd love it if someone could point me in the right direction. Perhaps I should simply resolve to find the answers and write my own book. This book looks interesting. Another good one along the same lines is and old standby, Putting Food By (Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, and Beatrice Vaughan). What I can’t seem to find is a formula to help those of us new to self-sufficiency get started and decide how much of which things to plant. I’d love to find a book that says, okay, for a family of four you’re going to need X pounds of green beans, X pound of potatoes, etc. with a few tips on how to tweak the formula to fit your family’s unique needs and then information on how many plants you will need. How many pounds of tomatoes does one plant generally produce? How many pounds of beans can you get from a 20 foot row of vines or bush beans? I’d love it if someone could point me in the right direction. Perhaps I should simply resolve to find the answers and write my own book.

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