2021 Archives - The Gardening Adventure

March 2021 harvest

March was a balanced month between fruits and vegetables with good diversity. I harvested more than double compared to last year.

The 2 better boy tomato plants are still producing and tomato harvest was in the first place this month. Still hard to believe that in March I harvested so many tomatoes 🍅.

This month I harvested a few huge papaya fruits, including a record 5 lbs 5 oz one.

February 2021 harvest

My harvest in February 2021 was 62% better than the same period last year. The stars were again my winter tomato plants.

I never thought that I would harvest almost the same amount of tomatoes as Pomelo in the month of February (just 1 lbs difference!). Last year, Pomelos were 71% of the entire February harvest.

Even more surprising is that the February tomato harvest was the 3rd best month in the past year and half, only July and August 2020 were better.

Fruit harvest last month was 58.5% from the entire harvest while a year ago they were 86%. That makes the vegetable harvest by percentage almost 3 times better this year (from 14% to 41.5%).

Garden update – February 20 2021

January 2021 harvest

The harvest in January 2021 was 70% better than the last year’s one.

The most exciting thing this month were the tomatoes again. I’m very close to my dream of harvesting tomatoes all year round. In the past 12 months, the only month without tomato harvest was April. January was the 4th best month for tomato harvest after June, July and August and only by 20g better than September.

This year 80% of the harvest were fruits, similar with last year when they were 82% of the total harvest. 22 % of fruit harvest were the cocktail grapefruit, which is one of the fruits that I didn’t harvest last year.

The most were Pomelo with 27% while second and third were guava and cocktail grapefruit each with 17.6%. This is the closest i had for top 3 monthly harvest.

Garden update – January 19 2021

Papaya is very busy setting flowers and fruits, it’s a full time job :). The fruits are taking longer to ripe because it’s winter, but I’m waiting patiently as these will be the biggest ones yet.

Vegetables

Purple sprouting broccoli is still growing, but no flowers yet. I already harvested some of the green broccoli, they seem to be ready much faster than the purple variety. The cauliflower grows very slowly under the purple broccoli shade.

Potato plants are doing great above the surface, hopefully they will have a lot of potatoes in the ground.

The tomatoes are still producing a lot of fruits and I’m also harvesting a lot. I didn’t harvest that many tomatoes since the summer months!

The tomatoes from the pots are done producing and look very bad. I will only keep them for a few more weeks, just to wait for a few tomatoes to ripen.

At the beginning of the month, I removed all my eggplants and planted more radishes and spinach in their place.

The peppers are almost done and I will probably harvest all of them and remove the plants by the end of the month.

Flowers

The artichokes are looking better every day, it seems that all of them have transplanted successfully.

Berries

I have a few very exciting additions to the garden!!! A few days ago I received raspberry and blackberry plants from a friend. I also received a mature raspberry plant in a 15 gallon pot that I split into 2 pots of 27 gallon each.

I also noticed 2 strawberries, this hot weather is giving us some berries off season.

The blueberries are already blooming, which is very exciting, but I think it’s too soon.