Here are the last figure for the garden yields for the period ofOct 2009 – Oct 2010 , the garden ’s second year .
The annual production for this first year was202 kg , up 71 kg from last years 131 kg . The full garden bed area is 686 sq . feet ( 64 sq . meter ) .
The intermediate monthly amount of produce was just over15 kg , up 5 kg per calendar month from last year 10 kg .
Here are some statistics which break this down further :
This graph is colour - coded for time of year – yellow-bellied ( summer ) , orange ( autumn ) , brown ( wintertime ) and dark-green ( spring ) .
The only anomaly are the “ low - spots ” in July and September , this is what happens when you blank out to plant your seasonal annual !
If we look at the monthly output figures :
Where there are decreases in yield for the month , it ’s mainly due to my forgetfulness to put in annual seedlings , harvest yearly before they go to seed , and another bountiful one , block to glean a whole harvest home of potatoes – I get around two harvests a twelvemonth . I just impart the potatoes in the soil and they sprouted once again , by then it was too late …
Even with human error , the garden still remains highly fertile , and significantly more so than before . Like I mentioned , annuals are the source of most of the workplace in any garden , hence my preference for perennials . Since my garden is a demonstration Permaculture garden , I run many garden circuit , and I ’ve had hundreds of hoi polloi come and gossip in the last two years . One of the strangest observations I ’ve had often is “ I ca n’t see much / any vegetables!”I produce more vegies than most urban garden , but because I use an over - stacked food wood plan , there are n’t neat rows of any vegetables anywhere , and not surprisingly , I do n’t have pest problems or crop rotation problem with any vegetables , just the occasional scale on the citrus trees thanks to the ants raise them , putting them there and protecting them !
The most comical comment I ’ve had to this web site was from a valet de chambre looking at the pictures and commenting “ even though your garden is mainly ornamental … ) . I thanked him for what I picture as a great compliment , he was suggesting that the garden was aesthetically pleasing to look at , wow , how bully , it acquire that style mainly on its own ! I did promptly remind him that it ’s really a food garden though ! So there you go , it works well , face neat , and produces lots of food . Permaculture trial impression of concept , you betcha !
If we break down the figure by type of produce ( fruits , vegetables and Chuck Berry ) , we can see the how much productivity we generate in each of these categories .
This twelvemonth , yield yield increase by 71 % . This increase is anticipate , as the backyard orchard , which is very immature , matures enough to commence producing yield . Over 70 % of the yield trees in the garden have yet to bear any fruit , due to their years , 2 years or youthful . Over the next three years , all of the tree will be producing , and the expected takings will be significantly in high spirits across all tree diagram as the eld progress .
The performance of the Berry has been striking this class , yields have increased by 56 % . This yr I also contribute a few more Charles Edward Berry in the garden – youngberries , thornless blackberries , loganberry , thornless Ribes grossularia , disgraceful currants , carmine currants and golden currant . With this many additional varieties of berries , it ’s buy the farm to be berry ego - sufficiency .
This year I actually arrest 5 kilogram less vegetables than the class before , as I forgot some of my one-year planting , though whichever way you depend at it , 70 kilogram of vegetable from a 64 square metre garden is a pretty upright !
Incidentally , if some of the yields look absurdly grim , like 52 g of perpetual prickly-seeded spinach or 152 g of parsley , that ’s because that’sall that was harvest , there was kilos of the stuff , but if it was n’t harvested , or if it ends up being composted or going to seed , it does n’t get count . The garden actually produced a sight more leafy greens than the statistics designate , they just were n’t used , and therefore not part of the harvest time pattern .
To get some perspective on these output statistics , we see that yield is commonly measured in price of yield / Accho .
Now , if we reckon at my garden , still in its babyhood at two years of eld , its output is :
To convert this to Acre , we do dome simple math : 4047/64 = 63.23 ( so you could crush or so 63 of my whole gardens into one acre!)Now , a bit more mathematics to get the yield per Akko : 202×63.23 = 12,773kg / Akka
So , my 2 year onetime entrant garden that is just getting started is producing the equivalent of12,773kg / acre , in other words , unaired to12.77 metric tonnes per acre !
I ’m look onwards to seeing how high I can get product – commemorate it ’s all organic , no pesticide other than a rare exercise of organic neem horticultural Georgia home boy or white oil , and no fertilizer other than the compost and squirm casting liquidity , and the rarified donation of a small bag of manure that I get when I give multitude free plants .
For the next twelve month ’s I ’ll just publish the harvest image calendar month by month , I ’ve become quite accustomed to weighing almost everything coming out of the garden over the last two years !
Now I ’ve filled this garden , and I have no more quad left , I ’ve start working on other the great unwashed ’s gardens , and some community garden projection , so I might publish some of those projects too , for it ca n’t always be about my garden !
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