Tracking the Harvest: May and June 2013

Who knows what a normal gardening year looks like? I’m beginning to wonder if it will ever be possible again to predict with any accuracy when a crop will come in!

This year’s harvests are coming along, but fairly slowly. In other words — it’s all a bit late. I know I’m not the only gardener in the area with this problem, because I’ve been getting calls at the office from other gardeners who are waiting (and waiting …) for some of their crops to reach maturity. The potatoes in my yard were a week or so late.

The tomatoes, though, are driving us all nuts! Some people are getting decent ripening in their cherry tomatoes and some of the hybrid varieties, but most of the big heirlooms seem to be waiting for less rain and warmer temperatures.

The native plants out in the wooded back yard seem unfazed by the weather, but the Rabbiteye blueberries in front are very late, and they aren’t too many generations from “native”.

So, to update the harvest tally, this is what my yard has given us – measured in kilograms – in the past couple of months:

Last year’s harvests from these months were very different, but last year was warm unusually early, so it isn’t a good year for comparison. I am pretty sure, though, that the tomatoes should be stampeding into my kitchen by now.

Hope we get a few days break from the rain soon, and that all your gardens are doing well!

Home gardening can provide a lot of good food for families and communities. It’s also some work, but I love it. This blog is about the garden and yard where I “grow my own,” NW of Atlanta, Georgia.