The garden has been very busily growing, I am pleased to say! My pumpkins are trying to take over the world, and we have been harvesting corn, eggplants and beetroot. There's a big fast watermelon growing, and a big fat butter nut pumpkin coming along too. It's all good!
So, how is the tally going?
Eggplants: six small ones, but perfect quality and organic grown. I've seen these for about $4 for same quality but bigger, so I'll go with $2 per eggplant. They are going to be perfect stuffed in tomato sauce for dinner tonight (a middle eastern recipe) $12
Corn: We picked six ears so far, of which only two were perfect. I think we were a bit enthused about picking the others, but it's all a learning process, and we ate them anyway. Corn is expensive at the moment. $1.65 each for corn, so $9.90 of corn already.
Beetroot: $2.88 each apparently in some places, but I shall take it as $2.88 per bunch, and say we've pulled a bunch of them. Some have died, and because I planted them badly or wrong, they're waiting for me to pull and get rid of them. I'll do better next year! I like them tiny.
Tomatoes: The Roma tomatoes have started to ripen, but I never get them inside the house! The kids eat them out of my hands before I can get up the stairs! So, um... there's been about ten of them, all of them about $100ish grams, so a kilo of Romas, $7.18. Gosh.
Garden was started on the 13th of November.
Cost of Garden: $278
Dec 15th: Saved: $2
Total Cost $276
February 5th: $31.96
Total cost: $244.04
Thursday, February 05, 2009
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2 comments:
wow, I'm inspired! Will take some photos of my garden in progress today and upload them :)
I have some corn growing now, and I just planted a second batch of Balinese corn a few days ago too. How many ears of corn are you getting per plant approximately?
I am getting about 2 per corn actually, even though people thought my corn wouldn't grow well, or produce any corn, because they are so tightly packed. My only problem so far has been corn aphids, which the ants LOVE. But they cause unhappy corn cobs, unfortunately.
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