Kitchen garden · 2026 field notes

Kitchen garden record

Season snapshot · recorded through 10 August 2026

I started keeping dated notes and photographs of the 2026 garden, along with the weight of the produce as it came indoors.

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.

About this page Planting notes, photos,
and harvest weights.

A simple record of what was planted and what I brought in.

Recorded through 10 August 2026 · selected records from the season.

12.7 kgharvest recorded

27active plantings

19crop types tracked

71documented moments

8harvest days

Keeping the recordPlanting, photographs, and harvests

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.

Planning

Planting notes

The crop, variety, location, and date it went into the garden.

Photographs

Progress photos

Dated photos from planting through to harvest.

Harvests

Weights

Produce weighed as it came indoors.

2026 seasonHarvest record

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

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

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 — 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.

More projects

All projects