Kitchen garden / 2026 field notes

From bare beds to 12.7 kg harvested.

A dated record of planting, growing, and harvesting—27 active plantings, 19 crop types, and 71 documented moments as of 10 August 2026.

Snapshot: 10 August 2026
Method: Dated photos + weighed harvests
Scope: 27 active plantings
Record: 71 documented moments

Climbing French beans held in front of the plants they were picked from — Climbing French beans / 8 August 2026

A handful of ripe and ripening Gardener's Delight cherry tomatoes — Gardener's Delight / brought indoors

Season record / 01 Nothing staged.
Nothing estimated.

Each figure comes from a dated planting, photograph, or weighed harvest.

12.7 kgharvest recorded

27active plantings

19crop types tracked

71documented moments

08harvest days

01 / From plan to plateMake the growing process visible.

Every planting begins with a crop, variety, date, and place in the garden. Progress photos preserve what actually changed. Harvests are weighed and dated, creating a traceable record from the first planting to food brought indoors.

01 / Plan

Record the start.

What was planted, where it went, and when the season began.

02 / Document

Keep the evidence.

Dated photos turn a slow biological process into a visible sequence.

03 / Harvest

Weigh the result.

Each harvest is measured rather than reconstructed from memory.

02 / Crop recordWhat came out of the garden.

Potatoes and courgettes contributed most of the recorded weight, while smaller harvests capture the breadth of the season. The selected crops below account for 10.9 kg; the 12.7 kg season total also includes the remaining recorded harvests.

PotatoesSharpes Express

6.3 kg

CourgettesLemona + Black Beauty

3.9 kg

French beansClimbing

231 g

CarrotsVariety not recorded

148 g

ShallotsAmbition F1

100 g

Spring onionHome-grown

97 g

TomatoesGardener's Delight

67 g

BeetrootDetroit 2

67 g

03 / Then and now · Potatoes

134 days between preparing the bed and a dug crop.

The season's longest documented transformation: two real moments from the same planting, not a projection or staged comparison.

The garden bed being prepared before planting on 21 March 2026 — Then21 MarchPreparing the bed

Freshly dug Sharpes Express potatoes in the garden soil on 2 August 2026 — Later2 AugustSharpes Express lifted

04 / Field notesThe evidence stays close.

The record follows the season as it happened: produce still on the plant, the first handful brought in, roots lifted from the soil, and harvests placed on the scale.

Climbing French beans growing on their support with a picked handful in the foreground — Climbing French beans / on the plant and picked

A handful of Gardener's Delight cherry tomatoes — Gardener's Delight / cherry tomatoes

Freshly harvested Detroit 2 beetroot held by its stems — Detroit 2 / beetroot

Yellow and green courgettes resting on a kitchen scale — Lemona + Black Beauty / weighed indoors

A Detroit 2 beetroot on a kitchen scale — Detroit 2 / harvest measurement

All figures are a dated snapshot of recorded plantings and harvests as of 10 August 2026. They are not estimates of the garden's complete output.

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