Growing My Way to Freedom #35: Measuring the Harvest (A new toy!)

Way to go nice scale.
Zucchini I love then you can make many recipes with them.

Nice scale Robin I’m sure you will get lots of use from it.Just loved the taste of my first zucchini this year.The heat made it so sweet.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Don’t know what I like better, that scrumptious zucchini or the bright shiny new scale, but I know that I do like them both!

-- My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale

I do remember that posting … your scale looks beautiful as well as functional. Looks easy to clean as well – bonus.
I’ve used my scales once or twice when making bread, to divide the dough evenly for the loaves.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Now I just need to make sure I really use it and keep a good record. I already missed quite a bit of this year’s harvest, but I can still use this summer to develop the habit of weighing and recording the results.

I am really glad our zucchini plants have started producing. We will be eating our first one tonight for dinner It has been so hot and dry this July, I have been giving them all our used dish washing water but they still look so thirsty.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

I guess my zucchini plant died. It was there .. and then it wasn’t.
Another one of the “fails” this year. Next year!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

We are not having the best of zucchini seasons this year. It is so hot and dry, everything is smaller than usual and many of my vegetables look wilted and stressed. I rarely water my gardens because I rely mainly on a thick layer of mulch and my kitchen gray-water for the thirstiest of the vegetables. When I change the animal’s water daily, I also pour those buckets into my garden as well. Both of those sources help, but this year even the mulch isn’t going to be enough to keep the garden going if we don’t get some rain soon. On the other hand, my neighbor came by today and said she already had put up over 20 pounds of zucchini and summer squash in her freezer! Sometimes, the location of your crops can make all the difference….. If you want to make a road trip to Massachusetts, I will share some of my few zuks with you!

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

quite the difference—struggling vs 20 lbs.

a trip to Massachusetts for some zucchini. Sounds like a good reason to get my passport :D

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)