Its all a bit of fun really, but its nice to see others reactions online when they see what you've grown!
Anyhows, time has been at a premium here recently, especially as with large harvests coming in we've got to process them to ensure that we have the produce available for the winter, the new branch at work is great, we're hitting KPI and sales targets and the team seems to be a very good one, but still a bit of work to get it to a place that I will be happy with!
We had another 34 frames of honey from the bees yesterday afternoon, which we had to extract last night (to give them back the frames so they have plenty of room for bringing in more honey), so starting at 7pm we had 60lb of honey that we extracted last week to jar up first, then 34 frames to extract (approx 70 - 80lb of honey), so we finished them at 230am last night! In total that brings our total honey harvest to approx 160lb, although some of it has already granulated, so that will probably be used for baking and for making mead with!
I managed to get some piccies of the plot today, so Im hoping to get them up on the blog in the next few days, but we're struggling with processing our crops, and although I do enjoy keeping the blog up to date, processing our current bounty has to come first!
Anyhows, after a fair bit of recent harvesting, here's the latest Balance Sheet!
Balance Sheet Update - 2nd September 2010
Total Veg Plot Costs 2010
Rent + Subs for 2 full plots £100
Seeds £20
Seed Spuds £20
Onion Sets £6
Growbags £15
Chicken Manure Pellets £8
Plastic 'wannabe' Polytunnel £61
Bamboo Canes £8
Flower Plants £28
Scaffolding Boards £100
Watering Cans £8
Soft Fruits £16
Clematis £10
Arbour materials £ 40
Cold Frames (2) £30 (1/2 price at Argos)
Redcurrant £7.50
Birdhouse £7
Birdfeeders (for arbour) £10
Total Costs £ 504
Next years costs should be significantly less than this year, as we wont be building the arbour, buying the polytunnel or cold frames or scaffolding boards! Costs will go up next week tho, as we're off to Wyevales 50p seed sale to stock up ready for next years growing season!
Total Veg Plot Harvests 2010
Rhubarb £ 35
Fartichokes £ 4
Volunteer Spuds £15
First Early Spuds £15
Second Early spuds £15
Lettuce £14
Radish £15
Garlic £85
Strawberries £65
Raspberries £35
Blackberries £25
Peas £40
Broad Beans £60
Courgettes £100
French Beans £80
Red Onions £20
White Onions £50
Cabbages £17
Peppers £14
Chillies £9
Tomatoes £55
Turnip £13
Runner Beans £50
Broccolli £35
Apples £12
Plums £5
Sweetcorn £10
Chard / Spinach £2
Aubergines £5
Total Veg Plot Harvests £ 893
So, a total nett profit of £ 399 so far this year, with a large amount of harvests still to come!
Hope your harvests are bountiful! Thanks for reading!
6 comments:
photies look great so good luck! nice to hear you're in a good profit now :)
wonderful selection of entries :}
Mmmm, maybe I should enter the corgette category with my donkey pizzle courgette. It's still hanging on in there, and is currently a mere three feet in length!
Hi Steph,
Thanks for the kind words re the piccies, we'll see how we do in the comp, its only for fun tho!
Yup, we're now well into profit on the plot, with a lot more harvests to come in still! Had another 14 sweetcorn cobs the last few days, plus more toms, more beans, more broccolli, more peppers, more spuds, more blackberries and rasps, more turnips, more cabbages, its getting a problem keeping up with the harvestiong now! Lol!
Hi Bilbo, and thanks!
Hi IG, you'd be welcome to join in the competition, but you need a matching pair of courgettes to enter the comp!
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