Topic: Harvest amounts

[Esre]

Yet another question, I promise to try and start answering them soon as well!

Is there anywhere that will give you a rough guide to how big a harvest you will get from various crops, I have a few in a diary I recently bought thats tells me the average harvest in weight from a certain length row and wondered if there was anything else like that.

I did a search on here but didn't come up with anything under harvest or crop amounts.

Thanks
Esre

[daisymay]

Which crops are you planning on growing?

[asbean]

The Hessayon Vegetable and Herb Expert gives expected yield.  Also this I scanned from a huge guide to gardening from the Readers Digest circa 1975

Of course, a lot depends on the soil, plant variety, how close to it it's sown, weather conditions, when planted and so on.

[Esre]

Thanks ever so much for that Asbean!

Daisymay I have a list of crops at home but off the top of my head, runner beans, peas early and main, early potatoes, tomatoes cherry and salad, carrots, parsnips, cucumbers, cauli, cabbage red and green, beetroot, mouli, sprouts, leeks, shallots, garlic, salad onions, radish, lettuce various.

I'm sure there's more and I won't have them all to start but it's a guide ;)

Esre

[daisymay]

there are two of us (third on its way very soon)

this year we are growing about:
30 tomato plants (perhaps too many but got a passatta maker and plan to use it!)
40 runner beans
20 french beans
80 mange tout (in 2 sowings of 40)
4 courgettes
30 squashes (these will be baby food and store well)
about 70 garlic / onions / shallots
120 leeks this year (way too many but DH is on that and he got a bit carried away)
6 perpetual spinach plants
carrots/ parsnips - as many as possible - usually sow a whole pack of seed but get poor results
6 sprouts
6 white sprouting broccoli

then we constantly sow crops of beetroot,. radish and lettuce through the season as and when  space merges and we start running low

hope this helps!