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Kitchen garden · 2026 field notes

Kitchen garden record

Every planting in the 2026 garden is dated and photographed, and every harvest is weighed as it comes indoors.

Season snapshot · recorded through

Climbing French beans held in front of the plants they were picked from
Climbing French beans, picked 8 August 2026.
A handful of ripe and ripening Gardener's Delight cherry tomatoes
Gardener’s Delight tomatoes brought indoors.
Biggest harvest 6.3 kg of potatoes

Sharpes Express, lifted on 2 August from a bed prepared on 21 March.

Season totals so far

12.7 kgharvest recorded
27active plantings
19crop types tracked
71documented moments
8harvest days

2026 seasonHarvest record

Potatoes and courgettes make up most of the 12.7 kg. The eight crops below come to 10.9 kg; the rest is smaller 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

Potatoes · March to August 2026

From planting to harvest

Two photographs from the same bed, taken 134 days apart.

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 potatoes lifted.

Season photosA few moments from the garden

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
Freshly picked Detroit 2 beetroot.
Yellow and green courgettes resting on a kitchen scale
Lemona and Black Beauty courgettes on the scale.
A Detroit 2 beetroot on a kitchen scale
Weighing a Detroit 2 beetroot.

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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