mugshots and numbers

we haven't posted in so long, but luckily that is not due to inactivity!  below are numbers on our harvest so far this year, it's been really amazing, and we are trying to get a second crop in many of our beds, fingers crossed ...

first, though, there is the matter of these guys:

this mugshot is not of carrots, but of a lesson, namely that you cannot transplant carrots!!!! no matter who says different, carrots should not be "sown under glass" to use the local parlance and then transplanted out in beds (and while we are on the topic neither should beets, although they are not hideously disfigured if they end up in different dirt than where they started).  we heard that carrots fork if transplanted, and thought we would try a little experiment, and now we have 60 forked carrots or so.  here they are with an equally ugly friend:

poor guys, or to quote colonel kurtz, "the horror, the horror" ... 

so, here are our numbers:

beets: 1.4 kg/3.1 lbs
broad (fava) beans: 3.8 kg/8.4 lbs
peas: 2.2 kg/4.9 lbs
potatoes 2.4 kg/5.3 lbs (this is just a 1/10 of what we have in the ground right now!!)
carrots: 1.3 kg/2.9 lbs (forked and all, about 3/4 are still in the ground)
onions 1.3kg/2.9 lbs (we have a "tonne" drying, this is just what we have used)
chard and kale: seemingly endless