Massive Suburban Garden Harvest this weekend!!!!

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Harvested a ton of food from my 100 sq ft suburban garden this weekend:

http://www.backtowilderness.blogspot.com/

52 lbs of potatoes
46 lbs of summer squash
13 lbs of peas
4 lbs of onions/garlic
3 lbs of Lettuce

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mercurygirl · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 1192

Good work, dude!

How much space do you devote to potatoes? They do take up a good amount of space, but I love them, and they are a staple.

What do you do with your excess, dry, can, or sell?

mos6507

How many Sq feet? Can you live off that?
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kpeavey · Expert Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 1249

How many plants did you have going. I'm particularly interested in the potato yield per plant and any growing methods you used concerning the potatoes.
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Good Deal xerces!

I have a lot of tomatoes, and egg plants growing on my patio is So Cal. I am impressed with your results in New York.

Maybe we won't all starve!
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purdum · Tar Sands Joined: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 32 Location: MI, USA

Excellent work, xerces.

I like the spreadsheet posted by PeakOiler. It shows well why it is important to grow calorie-dense crops such as potatoes. And it illustrates how difficult it is to grow a significant portion of one's diet on a small city or suburban plot.

I have a similar spreadsheet posted at http:\\my.core.com\~purdum3790, the link "Garden Contribution to Dietary Requirements" which anyone is free to copy. About the only difference with mine is I've tried to account for what is discarded when preparing a vegetable - i.e., you may have a 5 pound butternut squash from the garden, but maybe only 2 pounds of it ends up in the oven and that's the number used to figure calories.

allenwrench · Intermediate Crude Joined: Apr 23, 2008 Posts: 868

Very impressive!

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pedalling_faster · Intermediate Crude Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 848

i would like to try raising the panfish that you caught in PA.

but i'm afraid there is a conflict between this & getting my rent deposit back, since i live in a 2 BR apartment.

any idea on the smallest tank you could put a small colony of tilapia, sunfish, whatever they're called, and still have them be happy & breed ?
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Nice crop. Can you expand it? You seem to have a nice knack for high production on small area.
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xerces · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:45 am Post subject:

Ludi

Super yield for a small space!

adora

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