Pics from Oct 9 workday

Building a new plot


Watering the plots


Taking a short break..


Planting lettuce & broccoli...


Planting more lettuce...



The supervisor checks in on our work...


Everything looked fine, so it was time to water...

Harvest

Spent some time working the lower beds this afternoon. To my delight, the sweet potatoes I planted several months ago produced were ready to be dug up. Here's one of them.. many were about 8-10" diameter - huge!

Fall plantings

This weekend will be a great time to plant, since we have showers moving in Sunday & Monday. Hopefully Dekalb will have delivered more compost by tomorrow, but we should have enough leftover from the Spring to plant these:



There are three varieties of lettuce, 36 cauliflower and 36 broccoli plants. I have some potato seedlings on the way, and plan to sow Alaskan winter (sweet) peas, and more leafy veggies.

See you tomorrow!
Adria

June 3, 2010 garden update

It was time to mow back the kudzu & weeds around the garden, and clean up fallen limbs from the storm...


After:


Next, rows were laid in the bottom plots:


Future pumpkin patch?



The upper plots are coming along nicely...


Clean and tidy...


The rasberry and blackberry vines are loaded.


Keep up the great work - hope to see you Saturday!

1 more plot

Denise Chiavetta and family helped prepare the last remaining plot before the rain really got going this morning, and the garden is in good shape for late spring. Clover is tall, the bees were very quiet (light rain & cool), bluebird peeked out of the birdhouse, and one huge new mound of horse manure. Senior prom has been in evidence at my house - much excitement there! Spring fever all around....

Bees, clover...

Wow, both hives were buzzing this afternoon, and both crops of crimson clover are looking good. A carpenter bee was working the blueberry bushes, and the grapes are budding out nicely.

Bees, potatoes and the sinkhole

I stopped by the garden this morning for a couple chores.

The big sinkhole by the sidewalk was filled with another layer of rock & brick, then covered with 4 cubic yards of topsoil, and one cu. yard of compost. The topsoil & compost needs to be spread out after the concrete blocks are put back in place.

A half-row of potatoes has been planted in the lower plot. I marked the plantings with pieces of red brick.

I may have missed an earlier post, but what happened to the bees? I saw one come out of the hive a little over a month ago, but today - none were seen coming or going from the hive. Hope they were temporarily relocated.

The garden is looking GREAT!