Update 3/4 Row cover, seedlings

Dear St. Mary’s gardener: 

Last Monday we built our row cover for season extension. Underneath we planted some beets, cabbage and turnips. We have some more space to build out the cover where we plan to transplant lettuce and greens from our seedling project. 

Our beets are “Detroit dark red”. The cabbage is “Super red” and “Gonzales” (this seed was old so we might have to reseed). The turnips are “Purple Top”. 

Tom finished shredding the larger debris in the outer garden. We will put away the shredder for a while and take out the tiller for the outer bed.

We were a good crew:

Ashley, Maisie, Martha, Kathy, Tom, Jason

 Monday 3/7 we plan to work, but it might rain. If you want to try and work this weekend. These are some things to try:

-Hoe pathways and edge beds

-Remove screws from wood boards (sledge hammer is in the shed. Wear gloves!)

-Walter plans to finish chopping the cover crops (beds 2,4) on Saturday.

If we get to work on Monday we will:

-Finishing out the row cover 

-Weed/hoe pathways and edge beds

-Amend and turn compost

-Fork edge beds

-maybe plant small amounts of cool weather seeds in edge beds for experimentation (radish, spinach, onion, chard, cabbage, and maybe some other bits of seed that we have)

-label the seedlings carefully

Thanks for your help! 

Jason

We used bamboo in the corners and strung baling twine between the posts to hold up the Agribon-19. We weighed the edges with boards and bricks.

These lettuce seedlings emerged on 2/27 in our seedling project in Kiersten’s and George’s basement. I can’t wait to see how much they have grown by now.