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3/10/10 Update

posted Mar 12, 2010 11:57 AM by Rob Perhamus
Hello Gardeners - - - What a season for El Nino !  The rain certainly helped us grow beautiful, delicious, and plentiful veggies. Although the cool season veggies are still producing, it is time to plan for our warm season garden. We can start planting from now through the summer ! 

Please let me know at your earliest convenience if you do not want a garden plot for the spring/summer or if you want to share your plot with another gardener.

Please note: there are 3 plots that are not being tended to regularly. We plan to cut and pull those veggies that are going to seed to avoid problems spreading weeds to other plots. 

WORK PARTY and SPRING GET-TOGETHER AT THE GARDEN:  I'd like to schedule a work party for Saturday March 27th starting 10 am (weather permitting). Hope you can make it! The reason I'm scheduling the work party for end of March is to avoid the Easter weekend and also my first grandson is expected to be born around April 20th. 

Here is the agenda:

1.  Harvest veggies and let's have lunch at the garden, exchange with others, and also take home the extras or donate. I will bring paper plates and plastic utensils. Need someone to bring some large bowls to wash the veggies and a couple of platters to hold the washed veggies. We still have loads of bottle water in the shed.

2.  Spring clean-up of those crops no longer producing. Bring your hand tools, a hoe, rake and shovel. If I get a load of wood chips we will need a couple of wheelbarrows too. 

3.  Weed and general garden clean-up. Also weed and make a border for our new fruit trees from outside the fence straight down to the pavement. Let's think about planting some strawberries and/or other plants around the fruit trees. Ideas on irrigation for that new area are welcome! 

4.  Talk about warm season planting. We have seeds and I hope to get free starter plants from our friends at Lowe's, Colorama, and Bonnie Plants. So let's make a wish list what we want to plant! 

5.  Does anyone want to help start our Seed Bank?  Old pods from our sugar snap peas and fava beans can be opened, the peas/beans dried in the sun, and then stored in a clean glass jar with a screw cap. They need to be kept in a cool pantry until next season for planting.

I attached a link to the NO-DIG Vegetable Garden. Click on the Sowing Guide link on the left and then click on Northern Hemisphere Temperate Climate for a list of veggies and the best season for growing.

Also, click on Crop Rotation link on the left. This reminds us of the need to write down what we planted where in our garden plot. The same veggies should not be planted in the same place for about 3 years to avoid soil and pest problems.

Mary