In the first work parties of the garden season, gardeners sorted seeds, planted early greens and peas, and began working as a team to accomplish the garden’s ongoing cycles of creating food to live—together.
Gardeners sort seeds: planting here this season, saving for next season, and giving to neighbors and other community gardens.
Many of this seasons crops will grow courtesy of a hugely generous seed donation from Pinetree Garden Seeds, a family business in Maine founded in 1979.
Gardeners check the upper beds, where the soil is loose and fluffy. The next day, this bed was planted with arugula and spinach seed.
Trellis went up, and Pinetree seed for low-growing snap peas and snow peas went in.
Garden housekeeping includes placing tarps over and under (compost, straw bales, and more), drying tarps, and folding tarps.
Planning the path for drip irrigation into raised box beds. The garden’s ground beds are drip-irrigated. Now some of the boxes will be too. Watering the garden is relaxing, but in the planting frenzy to come, this is a measure to offset the necessity for to much of a good thing.
These appealing garden signs make it easy to find what’s growing here.
The garden’s seeds are sorted, put away, and ready for the season, and for our next planting day—tomorrow!
