Last Friday Tom Simpson helped us out again leading the charge against some invading weedy species. Sean Jenkins also came by and flexed some of his garden muscle by carrying logs from a fallen tree to put on top of the weed blocking tarps. Woo what a sentence.
Anywhoo, with their help the garden is again in tip-top shape. Zucchini, squash, peppers, tomatoes, basil, rainbow chard, and Peter’s Pumpkins are all doing very well. Our lonely eggplant is also looking lean, mean, and green.
We’ve pulled out a lot of the crops that didn’t do well or are finished (spinach, beats, radishes, carrots…) and planted cover crop — buckwheat– in their former beds. Two days in a row we’ve had rain showers so we expect the buckwheat to take off.
In other news, we planted broccoli!!
fresh, local produce…support it!
Posted by madre on August 4, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Yummm broccoli. Careful to harvest before it goes to seed. It gets tough, tart, and then very very stinky! Great job, Dirt Army
Posted by madre on August 4, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Yummmm broccoli. careful not to let it go to seed. it gets tough, tart and stinky. go Dirt Army.
Posted by Tyler on August 8, 2010 at 5:10 am
Thanks Tom!!
Thanks Shawn!!!!