More leafy greens

Kale for me (and some calcannon, perhaps.)

And mounds of romaine lettuce. Kyle's colleagues are expecting it. I think Kyle should take over for Oprah: "You get romaine! And you get romaine! Everybody gets romaine!"

Pre-storm harvest

They warned of a perfect storm. The front...the humidity...the sheer. Winds..rain...baseball sized hail. So we figured we should harvest anything that was ready in the garden. Right now that basically means various leafy greens. This included the last of the bok choy and a final large strawberry harvest. And another huge bunch of mustard greens there on the right.

These are the various lettuces with the spinach in the middle.

These strawberries made another tasty (but ugly and runny) pie.

Oh ya...no storm. Just a little rain. All for naught.

Mid-May walk through

One of the potato cages. They have been mounded up with extra compost. The newspaper help holds the soil in the chicken wire cage.

The chives blooming

Red leaf lettuce

The patch of romaine lettuce. Big producer.

Mustard greens

Spring workday in the garden

This Saturday in the garden was an EARLY one. 7AM because I had to get to a mini-retreat for the county party and Kyle...wait, I don't know why Kyle was up that flipping early. Anyways, some early work plus returning in the afternoon made for a big jump start to the spring.

Prepping the existing beds this year meant raking off the leaf cover and the big chunks that had "risen" through the compost. The loose soil barely needed a two inch deep raking to fluff the soil for planting.

Not purely the square foot method, but marking the areas this year with string helps us know where and when we are planting what.

Most of these long strings have quick maturing radishes planted under them for a living divider. Several large section of lettuces planted as well.

Early Direct Seed: carrots

Early Direct Seed: leeks (that's the garlic in the background)

Onion rows as dividers.

Old fence sections for trellis. This will be for cucumbers.

Planning helps....this map changed several times and is bound to change again.

Just another day of glass :-(