This is the last post about this year’s gardening endeavours. This is the approximate harvest:

Potatoes: 54,00 kg
Blueberries: 0,24 kg
Onions: 19,26 kg
Red beets: 1,00 kg
Garlic: 0,5 kg
Pumpkins: 20,27 kg
Pumpkin seeds: 0,05 kg
Bean pods: 6,98 kg
Figs: 0,68 kg
Beans: 7,05 kg
Grapes: 5,66 kg
Pears: 6,48 kg
Green peas: 4,50 kg
Apples: 20,47 kg
Strawberries: 1,96 kg
Sweet Corn: 0,40 kg
Horseradish: 0,91 kg
Raspberries: 20,29 kg
Carrots: 15,24 kg
Walnuts (shelled, dried): 10,51 kg
Bell peppers: 1,81 kg
Tomatoes: 27,12 kg
Radishes: 4,29 kg
Plums: 52,80 kg

The overall monetary value of all this produce at prices during the harvest would be approximately 1.000 €, but nearly one-third of that is due to the huge amount of raspberries that I had this year. Raspberries are expensive, but not particularly nutritious or useful. And of course, we processed all this further, so all the canned sauces, marmalades, etc., are probably double/triple that value in money.

Nutritionally, all this would account for circa 30% of one person’s yearly calories, but I could not eat all that, not even in one year – nearly a third of the calories are in the walnuts alone, and I cannot eat more than a handful of those once in a while. We gave away most of those anyway, or exchanged them for honey with a friend who is a beekeeper.

Strictly speaking, this was not a bad harvest, even though the pumpkins, corn, garlic, and onions were essentially failed crops, and the potatoes underperformed significantly. The garden is now covered in snow, and I will have a few months in which to be depressed and have to do other things. And to think about what I will do the next season.