Strawberry Work Day!

This morning we planted some new things in our garden.  A big batch of strawberries, some broccoli, cabbage, onions (red, white, and yellow) and some collard greens (only a little!).  Niki showed up with her five daycare kids, and we all had a great time.

Learning how to prepare the soil

The supervisor

Putting in the plants

Preparing for distribution

First Workday of the Season!

Today under cloudy skies and 40 degrees, we had our first work day. Where was the sun and 60 degrees that was forecasted?  Nevertheless, we persevered.  It helped that two new families joined us.  Yeah!  Because everyone else was on spring break.  Well, almost everyone.  The goals for the day included:

• Compost the old 8x4 beds including peat moss, and compost the 4x4 new beds.
• Put square foot grids on the old 4x8 beds.
• Plant some broccoli, spinach, parsley, and pea seeds (it may be too early, but we can always remain optimistic).

If you didn't make the work day today, it's not to late to join in the future.  Also, consider taking the vegetable survey to help us decide what to plant this year!

An early visitor.

Mixing in compost and peat moss to improve our soil.

Putting in the square foot grids on our old 4x8 beds.

Planning seeds.

Peas!

Spinach, Broccoli, Parsley!

August Harvest

Tonight we harvested our first August harvest: Onions, zucchini, basil, chard, tomatoes, and a couple of carrots. We also planted four different kinds of lettuce for the fall: green leaf, mesclun, bibb, and romaine.

Several kids joined us tonight:


Harvesting the onions.


Tomatoes:


Tilling the ground for the lettuce:


Planting Lettuce:


Our vegi draft:


A serious handful!

Garden 2.0!

We all came together again this morning to practice a little square foot gardening. We built and planted three 4x4 foot gardens. Two of them have trellises. We're pretty excited about how our garden keeps growing! Check it out.

Frames:


Making the soil: 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 compost (5 different kinds!)


Filling the boxes:


Making the square foot grids:


Making the trellises:


Planting the plants:


Finished product:


Our garden:


If you want to get involved, it's not too late. Drop me an email.

Groundbreaking - May 15, 2010

Today we had 20 people (kids and adults!) show up to ground break our garden. We began at 9AM and finished around 3:30PM. At first two 4x8x1 gardens didn't seem like much, but we're glad we didn't plan much more. It was quite a day with the kids helping out just as much as the adults. Here's some pictures to show the day's work. For the full album on Facebook click here.