Early Garden Doings and Growings
With nighttime temperatures still dipping into the low 30s, seeds for cold-hardy plants are sown and work parties happen every other week or so. The big push, when everything happens at once and gardeners scramble to prep beds, plant seeds and seedlings, and keep all...
What else is growing at the garden?
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.
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...
