Well, Its a good thing I am writing things down in the farm book to help keep track of these things for this post but wow, I can see that in true harvest time, this is going to be a lot of work, but I think it will be so worth it to track things again tightly this year.. I have done a hard tracking on other years but this year I added in more imputes and outputs.. can’t get over the price of dried herbs or plants..  So what are you harvesting this week?

Costs in the garden outputs this week- 62.15

Total Garden Outputs (including seeds/plants) for 2013- 432.15 dollars

Total Garden imputes in terms of harvest for 2013-501.96

Currently = In the good by 69.81

Total Garden impute in terms of free, gifted or foraged plants for 2013-767.88

Planted this week-,Friday to Thursday

• 136 Strawberry plants(mix of one year to two year old crowns)
• Seven Comfry Plants
• 1 Mystery flowering plant
• Flax
• Walking onions -6x
• Mint-Pinnapple
• Mint- chocolate
• Mint- Citrus
• Mint- Grapefruit
• Lambs Ear

Plus Greenhouse seeding plantings.. but I am not going to go over those, they will be talked about when they make it out to the main gardens.

Currently prepping and working on different garden beds and everything that is coming back from next year..

Harvest this week..

• Danelion- Greens – 3 bunches 1.99 = 5.97
• Nettles-96 cups (will make these equal to basil herb) -191.04 **
• horseradish Greens- 8 bunches- 3.99 at the Chinese market-31.98
• Garlic greens/bulbs- 2 bunch (count them as green onions) 1 .98
• Fresh Mints- 19 cups – I weighted this out and its 2.29 per cup -43.51
• Mirco greens- equal to one box-5.99
• Wild flowers-Violets- * 20 cups -59.80
• asparagus- 20
• Burdock root- 1 bunch -5.99
• Beet Greens-1 bunch-3.99
• horseradish- 3.99
• Fresh pea greens-4.99

Total this week –375.24

** 46 cups fresh used, and the rest are dried, I finally got to the health store and got a current price on the dried stinging nettle pills, and will using it to help me figure out what my dried nettles are worth.. (did a big list of things I am growing an drying and wow, so glad that I am doing it on the farm, and not buying them!)

Went to my mountain herb and other online herb sites for prices on these..

total harvested to date.. 121.72

Extra’s..

Pig plow update: Cleared 192 square feet this week

total Plow this spring so far 1024 square feet..

compost used from the farm – Three wheelbarrels- equal to 12 large bags at the store.. 2.99 per bag- Savings on compost this week-47.84

Savings on compost for 2013 -112.64 (including tax)

Gifted to us this week-195

• 8 heritage Tomato plants -40
• 24 lambs ear plants- 71
• Mystery plant-5
• six walking onions- 22
• Flax (the linin kind, a big pot that I can keep seed back on)-5
• pink wild violets-12
• Pinnapple Mint-9.99
• chocolate Mint-9.99
• Citrus Mint-9.99
• Grapefruit Mint-9.99

Gifted Seeds this year-

• Beans
• Ockra
• Luffa
• Blue Dent Corn

Gifted from us Total to date : 279

• 300 pds of well composted farm compost–45
• six rhubarb root in a pot- 60
• 8 apple mints-48
• 2 -Beebalm Red 20
• 1 Beebalm Pink- 10
• Peppermint (little)- 4
• 4 Wild Violets ( big pots worth) -40
•  4 Nettles- (normally can only order seeds so will use that)-12
•  2 virgina creepers- 20
•  4 Creeping Charlie- 20