Great post. This is the first year that my 4-year-old is completely obsessing over the garden. He planted indoor starts for oregano, basil, dahlias, and forget-me-knots. We’ve got peas in the beds and are anxiously awaiting the time to sow beets, carrots, green beans, and squash. I
What fun! We’re just beginning to work on our garden this week: sheet mulching. We won’t begin to plant until after Memorial Day. This year it will simply be a summer crop of green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and watermelon. Next year we’ll do a spring crop, too, which will include peas, radishes, broccoli, and lettuces.
Becky – thanks for the comment – ooh, we love dahlias -so old-fashioned – I need to put some in!
Susan – gotta love sheet mulching for saving the back – we’ve done double-dug gardens in the past, and I am just getting too old to do that anymore, and based on the sheet-mulched gardens I’ve toured, I don’t think double-digging gives a better result.
You guys can grow watermelon? I’ve tried eggplant, sweet peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe once since we’ve moved to the Pacific NW, and they took SO much babying to get any fruit! I think we’ll go for low-effort and be content with lots of beans, summer squash and tomatoes in late summer. I do love fresh eggplant, though…
[...] It’s late June at Salt of the Earth Urban Farm (home of the BCS Teaching Garden)! Finally, some warm weather (mid-upper 70’s) has settled in (the tomatoes, summer squash and bush beans look much happier) and everything is flourishing. [...]
Great post. This is the first year that my 4-year-old is completely obsessing over the garden. He planted indoor starts for oregano, basil, dahlias, and forget-me-knots. We’ve got peas in the beds and are anxiously awaiting the time to sow beets, carrots, green beans, and squash. I
What fun! We’re just beginning to work on our garden this week: sheet mulching. We won’t begin to plant until after Memorial Day. This year it will simply be a summer crop of green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and watermelon. Next year we’ll do a spring crop, too, which will include peas, radishes, broccoli, and lettuces.
Becky – thanks for the comment – ooh, we love dahlias -so old-fashioned – I need to put some in!
Susan – gotta love sheet mulching for saving the back – we’ve done double-dug gardens in the past, and I am just getting too old to do that anymore, and based on the sheet-mulched gardens I’ve toured, I don’t think double-digging gives a better result.
You guys can grow watermelon? I’ve tried eggplant, sweet peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe once since we’ve moved to the Pacific NW, and they took SO much babying to get any fruit! I think we’ll go for low-effort and be content with lots of beans, summer squash and tomatoes in late summer.
I do love fresh eggplant, though…
[...] first of three potato beds out back are really going gang-busters. I have to mulch them almost every day (cutting tall [...]
[...] It’s late June at Salt of the Earth Urban Farm (home of the BCS Teaching Garden)! Finally, some warm weather (mid-upper 70’s) has settled in (the tomatoes, summer squash and bush beans look much happier) and everything is flourishing. [...]