Garlic Scapes: A Delicious Garden Task
The garlic plants are sending out scapes. Our job is to harvest and eat them! If we left the scapes on the garlic plants, they'd grow into beautiful flowers, using up energy. Instead, gardeners snap or snip the entire scape from every plant, freeing up those resources...
What else is growing at the garden?
Planting and Growing Increase with the Temperatures
We've planted several beds with cold-hardy seeds, including carrots, beets, kale, and peas. Tender young leaves and shoots are emerging. Temperatures are increasing, and we're preparing to plant warmer weather seedlings.
Early Planting Accomplished
We've planted all our early crops, the ones that can go in while there's still threat of frost: Beets Carrots Kale & Other Leafy Greens Peas Salad Greens Summer squash We're looking forward to June, when we'll plant tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, hot peppers,...
Planting Onion Seedlings
By the Ides of May, we've planted the onion bed, carrots, summer squash, peas, and massive messes of greens. There's much more still to plant as the season warms: Beets, pole beans, bush beans, flowers for cutting, and, of course, tomatoes.
“Water the earth, not the air”
"Water roots, not leaves." "Water the earth, not the air. " These are some of the many lessons we learned from our first garden coordinator in 2014. Here are scenes from this year's watering orientation. /
Special Deliveries
What's with all the trucks? The Garden at 485 Elm utilizes some very large items.
Prepping and Planting: A Garden Takes Shape
It rained and there was the vague threat of a thunderstorm. Still, gardeners came, dug, and planted together. http://
Early Herb Walk
Clinical herbalist and Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism student Diana Baron led us in and around the garden to identify the plants just poking out of the earth as we begin the 2018 gardening season. We took this herb stroll on April 21, a week before our first...
Day In The Dirt!
Gardeners dug, shaped, and planted at the first work party of the Garden at 485 Elm. Our seventeen volunteers joined hundreds of others at 33 community and school gardens all over the state participating in Day In The Dirt. This was the sixth annual Day In The Dirt,...
Winter gardening for real
Mulching some of the beds was that one last chore we didn't get to before the snow flew. On January 10, an intrepid gardener went out on her own to complete it. We weren't even sure the garden gates would open with so much snow piled on each side. But Meredith found...
Tucking the Garden in for Winter
Most of our crops have been harvested. Just a few hardy greens and Brussels sprouts remain. We've tested and amended the soil and planted winter cover crops for nutrient replenishment. But we're not quite done. Nature doesn't tend to leave bare earth. We mimic that...
