Harvest Monday, May 5th, 2014

My first weighed and tallied harvest.

My second one was a bit bigger. Plus I harvested some chives. Though I didn't photograph it I also harvested some sage, but it was unweighted as it was so small.

I used the harvests in my lunches. I had two lunches with homemade tortillas, cheese, avocados, green onions, cilantro, and my mixed greens. One even had fried eggs in it.

And one lunch with a nice salad. Oh how I love spring greens. I don't harvest enough yet to have this every day, but it won't be long. The lettuce is getting bigger everyday. Even with me stealing the little side leaves.

I finally started a tally sheet too. And every week I put it into my spreadsheet and add it to the tally. This weeks tally is obviously pretty low. And don't I have the worst handwriting? Sometimes even I have trouble figuring out what it says.

I also spent yet more money. This time for some bricks and some rebar. I use them to hold the edges of my row covers. And this year I've got a lot more row covers than I usually do. And boy is rebar expensive. At least it is a one time expense - unlike the row cover itself that degrades over time. Sadly they didn't have any of the 4' long ones, so I had to get a whole lot more of the 2' long rebar. I still really don't have enough. I had to use one bamboo pole. It doesn't work as well as it isn't very heavy. But I weighted it down with a brick. I hope it holds.

• Mixed Greens: 0.24 lbs
• Herbs: 0.08 lbs
• Total: 0.32 lbs
• Spent: $56
• Tally: -505.93

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.