Planting Garlic in 2023 to Harvest in 2024
Once Vermont is well into fall frosts, it's garlic planting time. Waiting until extended warm spells have ended ensures the garlic won't germinate and begin growing until spring. Flashback to midsummer: We harvested the garlic planted in 2022 and reserved hundreds of...
What else is growing at the garden?
“Now Harvesting”
That's the call we wait for every season. It means there's a list of crops ready for us to eat. Here's some of what we're eating.
Building and Planting: The Home Stretch
These are among the last beds we still need to build. The hemlock structures will support San Marzano and Amish Paste tomatoes.
Planting Week
Many weeks involve planting here at the Garden at 485 Elm. But here in Vermont, when we can get a hard frost as late as Memorial Day, the big planting push means waiting until frost warnings are really over, then urgently planting as many heat-loving crops as we can...
Tomatoes are planted, fed, tied, and trimmed.
It's been tomato week here at The Garden at 485 Elm. That's not counting seven cherry tomato plants in boxes and six Amish paste tomato plants that will go in this weekend.
Tomato planting time
It's a huge planting week at The Garden at 485 Elm. We're planting squash, cucumber, peppers, herbs, and . . . tomatoes! We purchased our tomato and pepper seedlings at Ananda Gardens, an organic grower in Montpelier who also offers a wonderful CSA. Watch the video...
More planting
We've put in more veggies and started adding herbs. Our biggest planting days are still ahead of us.
Planting Commences
May 1 brings an escalation of garden activity.
Spring Harvest: Jerusalem Artichokes
Spring food in the garden
Gardener at 485 Elm Diana Baron, a student at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, contributed these words and photos, except for Good King Henry image from Wikimedia Commons. Though we've just put our first seeds in the ground, there are already things to...
Planting Peas, Greens, and Brassica
Much planting happened in the garden on this cool and rainy final day of April.
