A Quick Taste of a Delicious Crop
For a brief moment in the spring, asparagus is perfect for eating. The Garden at 485 Elm hosts two asparagus boxes: Purple Passion, planted in 2021, and Martha Washington green, planted in 2022. The first couple years, a handful of stalks came up. Every season, there...
What else is growing at the garden?
The light at the end of first big garden push
The sun shines on The Garden at 485 Elm a few minutes longer each day. The warmth propels seeds into germination, plants into flower, and gardeners into productivity.
Volunteers Make Our garden Grow
Six volunteers from the Vermont Youth Tomorrow AmeriCorps VISTA Program (VYT) worked hard in the garden this week. They completed three important projects and made headway on several others.
Scenes from a Growing Garden
Nothing is ever "finished" in a garden. But the important work and the growing are well underway.
“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.
