The last of the spring spinach, lots of lettuce, bok choi, a little swiss chard and collards, most of the rest of the spring radishes, lettuce thinnings and the first salad turnips.
Today’s Harvest – June 7, 2014
Spinach, lettuce, baby bok choi, the main crop of spring radishes, and baby lettuce thinnings..
Our first real harvest of 2014
Radishes, spinach & lettuce.
Another beautiful day at the garden
We had another beautiful day for planting yesterday. We planted a second-round of radish seeds, added a few more lettuce and cabbage seedlings to what we had put in before, and planted first rounds of parsnips, soybeans, salad turnips, and parsley.
Steven watered. Dick weeded. Corinna and Martha thinned our early radish shoots, always a difficult task for tender-hearted gardeners. Susan cleared a plot of winter rye, then planted soybeans at one end, with the help of a young visitor. Elizabeth put in parsley seedlings and a screen to shelter them from too much sun. Several of the guys started in on a watering homunculus that will ring the garden, reduce hose dragging, and bring more flexibility to our watering routines.
The deadline has now passed for signing on for this year’s garden. For the 20 slots available, 15 people paid their $75 and signed up. We’re 10 returnees from last year and 5 new members. If things work out as before, that means we’ll usually have 8 to 12 people working in the garden each Saturday morning and one evening during the week, yet to be decided. Members will also drop by individually when extra watering needs doing or sometimes just to hang out. We welcome visitors whenever one of us is there.
Another Surprise Treasure in our Garden!
This Day in the Garden – September 8, 2012
Our first harvest of sweet potatoes, leeks and rhubarb, and the last of the watermelons. None of the watermelons this year have made it out of the park – it’s just too much fun to share them on the spot. Those eight big sweet potatoes were from just one plant! We’ll wait a few weeks to dig the rest, after the plants start dieing back.
Michael spotted a special visitor on the pole beans: Our mantid friend is a Tenodera aridifolis sinensis, aka a Chinese Praying Mantis.
See http://speciesofjabin.blogspot.com/2010/08/savanna-chinese-praying-mantis.html
A praying mantis is a voracious predator, (i.e., a "beneficial" insect), and its favorite munchies are insect & bug pests that we don’t want in our gardens! Isn’t it nice to know that Mother Nature is helping us out? (And kudos to Alan for the excellent click!)
