Happy 2012, MCF fans and followers!
This year, we've got a slightly bigger garden plot, and we'll be striving for more produce from this bigger acreage, coupled with wiser crop rotation and succession plans based on what we learned last year. Also, I'll try to keep track of expenses, and yield totals. I don't think we'll keep track of "$$ saved as compared to the market shopping", since crop prices and quality fluctuate too much to allow any meaningful numbers to be derived. But hopefully by keeping track of input costs and vegetable yields, we'll have a sense for "value" of our vegetables.
Purchase #1: $22.99 for a 3 meter row house. Theoretically this will allow earlier, or even winter, planting. For scale, it is pulled out to an 8 foot length in this photo.
Its the end of the year, but we still have a row of lettuce keeping warm along the foundation:
It's officially the rainy season, as indicated by our first flood of the year. Here is the lake at Irving Park, one of many low spots on Fremont. There was a similar, albeit smaller, lake in our basement unfortunately.
