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?
Planting Onion Seedlings
The garden purchases allium seedlings to grow onions and shallots rather than growing them from seed here. Look at these beauties from Ananda Gardens. Planting onions is not difficult, but it takes many hands. First the chickens "turned" the beds. Then gardeners...
Early May Garden Eats
Gardeners have planted snow peas, snap peas, lettuces, arugula, kale, collard greens, carrots, turnips, radishes, and more. It's be a few weeks before they're food. But there's food ready now that we planted years ago. It comes back every spring. There's no marjoram,...
Adapting Plants and Chickens to the Season
Gardeners have planted peas, greens, radishes, and more. Their tender seedlings will attract flea beetles and other beings who, like us, enjoy fresh, delicious food. Gardeners cover the planted beds with Reemay, or acid-free garden fabric, to give the plants a chance...
Flower Power Prevails
Gardening weather and soil thaw began early. Flower Power team got right out there to prep the beds for cutting flowers. A gardener who started these giant marigold seedlings indoors ensures enough planting space to allow them to bloom. Watering in the giant marigolds...
In Which the Garden Has a Chicken Visitation
Aster, Ophelia, and Winifred live near the garden. Recently, they arrived to spend a couple of weeks here. Aster, Ophelia, and Winnie are helping prepare the garden beds for planting. Chickens use their strong, sharp feet and beaks to search for bugs and seeds....
It Begins
In November 2022, we planted garlic on a day like this one. Partway through the season, there was a harvest, not of garlic but of the scape each plant was sending up. And here's how garlic harvest day goes. Today falls between planting day and scape-harvest day. More...
Last garden work party: brussels sprouts harvest
Autumn activity in the garden has been varied, busy, and delicious. Posts here have not kept up. Until we get to posting about garlic planting and other garden doings, please enjoy these images from the last garden work party of the season. It was brussels sprouts...
Garden Cleanup
There's still collards, kale, mustards, collards, and Brussels sprouts growing in the garden. But after several frosts many annuals are done for the season. Gardeners removed plants that are done for the season and laid them on the garden waste windrow to break down...
Edamame, Year Two
Last season a gardener scored edamame seed, which can be hard to come by. Perhaps you've eaten edamame at a Japanese restaurant. You might have been served a steaming plate of salted pods for eating the tender legumes within. That's an experience the garden now allows...
Winter Squash Harvest
Harvesting the winter squash happened so quickly that it was over before we could grab photos in the squash bed! Over at the seed pumpkin bed, the work went fast as well. These small pumpkins are called "hulless," as in no pumpkin flesh to eat. They're full of seeds...
