Our first try at recordkeepping for Garden 1999. Ironically, this may have been our best
pepper year since we started Planter Garden! Since that time, pests and droughts are on the rise and
yields are decreasing.[ Home ]
[ Garden Spot][Wildlife]Planter Yields and Measurements
1999
# Plants # lbs raw vegetable
45 pepper plants (including some sweet peppers) 30
10 table tomatoes 45
11 Roma tomatoes 25
10 lbs of Romas from a local produce stand -- thanks to the tomato hornworm,
that diminished our tomato yield by about 30%-50%!
produced:
21 pts salsa
13 8-oz jars jalapeno jelly
10 pts piccalilli
21 pts pickled and sliced peppers and pepper relishes
4 gal whole dried peppers (cayenne, ancho, habanero, piquin, and Thai)
3 bags of frozen whole jalapenos and serranos
As recordkeepping improves, after three years' experience, this cook-gardener has found that our two-chilehead household needs approximately the following to get us through the year:
35 pts salsa
4- 1/2 pts
Other Useful Yield Info:
8 cherry tomato plants 15 lbs
15 row ft green beans 12 lbs
Measurements for canning salsas and relishes:
1 peck medium peppers = 6 lbs = 7 cps chopped = approx. 5 pts pepper relish
2 doz medium tomatoes = 4-5 cps chopped
1 onion = 1 cp chopped