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Spud Brothers crop and calorie totals from GAMCOD 2025

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"The Spud Brothers", as they want to be called, my sons, grew a GAMCOD plot this year. They grew an impressive number of things in their little 200 square foot space. Some planned, some not! Here's the list:

Peas,
Potatoes,
Pumpkins,
Carrots,
Turnips,
Sunchokes,
Walking onions,
Yellow summer squash,
Sunflowers,
Sweet corn and Dent corn,
Beans,
Amaranth,
Fresh green beans,
Goosefoot,
Amaranth,
Mushrooms!

Preliminary totals are 27,780 calories. (30,585 with Nancy's help calculating!) Let's go through each crop. It helps me to go one step at a time.

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43.9 pounds of raw pumpkins is about 5,974 calories. We also dried and ate the seeds. I didn't include that in the earlier total. 7.5 cups of dried pumpkin seeds in their shell is 2,250 calories.
8,224 calories altogether.

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Way to go, guys...!

Last year, we had pumpkins and counted the calories for the flesh separate from the calories for the seeds. Wise move.

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They grew peas. We estimate each pea pod is about 26 calories. Some are pictured below. The rest from our total are on the submitted video. 36 pea pods is 936 calories.

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Well done spud-brothers! You can be proud of yourselvesand Rebekah you can we proud of your wonderful sons.

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Spuds! They grew 14lbs. Of taters. Gardeners learn more every year, and we lear ed some things about why our potatoes were ity bitee. But we aren't sad about those 14 pounds!
Google says thats about 4,760 calories.

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They also grew carrots. Heres one photo of them being weighed. (25 in this photo) All in all, there were eleventy-one carrots, all captured in video. That adds up to about 2,580cal.

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3 pounds, 11oz of turnips was about 468calories.

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They grew sunchokes by accident! I think it planted itself when they were loading compost into their potato towers. One little plant yielded a few tubers, about 170 calories.

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Walking onions were a fun part of their garden! "Medusa onions" as they have come to be known in our family. 6 pounds, 5.3 Oz. Of them were weighed. Google says this many regular onions is about 1200 cal, but walking onions, as you can see, are a bit more slender. But probably have more calories than green onions, which is about 800calories for this batch. The average of the two is 1,034calories, so thats what I'm going with.

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They planted two yellow squashes in spots where other things didn't grow. They became quite productive! Yielding 11 pounds and 14oz. Over the season in total (which are in our videos). That is about 970calories.

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As part of their 4 sisters garden, the boys planted sun flower seeds. The got some tiny, medium and mutated flowers 😆. Totaling 1 pound, 4.9oz, and 3,658 calories.

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The spuds brothers planned on planting sweet corn, but didn't have enough seedlings. They also grew red dent corn, the landrace dessert variety so many permies recommended to me!
34 ears of sweet corn, eaten fresh: 2,992 cal.
6.1 oz. Of dried sweet corn seed they saved: 610cal.

The dent corn grew well! But because of the autumn being our family's busiest season, the harvested cos didnt get processed before molding. Google and I did some guessing based on the weight in this picture, that in the cob still, it was about 1,806calories. (I didnt want to process it further, due to aflatoxin spore danger)

Thankfully, two ears of this dent corn were overlooked during harvest and we found them still on the plants later, perfectly healthy! Their calories was about 458.

Altogether, thats 5,866 calories for corn!

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The Spud Bros grew Scarlett runner beans and black beans. The calorie totals totals them was 1,292cal.

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Another fun re-plant was amaranth. Two plants grew, and they got big! Still, teeny weeny grains only made it up to 527 cal.

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Some of their beans were eaten fresh as green beans. 56 cal for this pan.

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They boys also ate goosefoot and amaranth greens and a mushroom from their garden! That all amounts to about 44 calories. Its on their video footage but I didnt catch any photos. Its sometimes hard to snap pictures before they excitedly munch their produce! Ita a "good problem".

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Ok, so I got 30,285 from these crops, all told. Anybody wanna check my math? 🫣 I'm not great at crunching numbers.

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I think you've slipped a digit somewhere and underestimated. From your posts above:

Peas, 936
Potatoes, 4760
Pumpkins, 5974 + 2250 = 8224
Carrots, 2580
Turnips, 468
Sunchokes, 170
Walking onions, 1034
Yellow summer squash, 970
Sunflowers, 3658
Sweet corn and Dent corn, 2992 + 610 + 1806 + 458 = 5866
Beans, 1292
Amaranth, 527
Fresh green beans, 56
Goosefoot,
Amaranth,
Mushrooms! These 3 total: 44

I make the total = 30585 calories!

Well done the Spud Brothers!

I find it interesting how many calories they got from the sunflower seeds. That's quite unexpected. How many plants did they have? I'd love if you had a photo

So if they had a standard Gamcod plot of 200 sq feet....one acre is 43560 sq feet so 217 x 200. Multiply your calorie total by 217 gives....

6636945

They are officially the 6 milllion calorie kids!

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Those are some impressive numbers for a couple of boys!

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Thank you so much for double checking me, Nancy!! Here's a photo of one day we harvested. There 8 heada here, but probably 5 medium/small that yielded seeds. We picked two more later. Maybe 10 plants, all along the back fence? We planted more. There was more space, but thats all that came up. Big gaps between them. But the soil wasn't good to begin with. Thankfully, sunflower seeds are pretty high in calories.

I seriously doubt they could focus enough to grow a whole acre! 😆 but maybe our whole family could. Maybe the boys could do a quarter acre by themselves?

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So how many gardeners finished with GAMCOD totals this year?

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