Rain delays, making progress anyway

We had rain on our normal Monday workday, but things are still happening in the garden. I went last night and took some pictures so you can see what our good work set in motion.

These are some good things that happened even when we could not get together:

• Over the weekend, Walter chopped the cover crop.

• Jason hand weeded the cilantro and the endive/escarole, peas, carrots, and beets (but he left little piles of weeds that need to be cleaned up).

• Kiersten and George are tending to the new seedlings.

• Dr. Elaine Bunick donated a first aid kit that is located in the foyer of the church office. We should be able to access it even when the office is closed.

If you want to work in the garden on your own you can do these activities:

• Hoe pathways and growing areas around the edge of the garden.

• Fork the edge beds, fork beds 1 and 6

• Carefully weed by hand the onion patch and the asparagus area on the west edge of the garden

• Remove screws from board (Bring a hammer or use the sledge hammer in the shed. Please wear gloves)

• Move little weed piles to the larger compost area in the back corner

When we get together again we will do these things:

• Finish out the row cover

• Amend and turn compost

• Add compost to various beds

• Finish hoeing and forking growing areas

• Plant cool weather seeds in edge beds: radish, spinach, onion, chard, cabbage and other little bits of seed.

• Carefully label each planting area

These are pea spouts coming up. We planted these at the end of February.

Hundreds of turnip seedlings emerged. We planted these on Monday, 3/7.

Images: Cilantro that was carefully hand weeded. Escarole and endive carefully hand weeded. Cover crop that was chopped two weeks ago. Freshly chopped cover crop.

Images: Kale, romaine, cabbage, broccoli rabe, mustard, komatsuna, leaf lettuce, and collards are all growing well in Kiersten’s and George’s basement seedling factory.