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Garden Update – Super Zucchini

Brettf — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:09:09 +0000

The garden is doing really well. I haven’t posted much because everything is pretty standard. 3 harvests of green beans, lots of peas, beautiful flowers, abundant herbs, lots of beets, gnarly carrots, and zucchini. The zucchini as you can see from the picture are huge. We have had lots of small zucchini but the hot weather has allowed them to get huge. Some more general shots of the works are coming.

Garden Update

Brettf — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:35:30 +0000

Last weekend Terra and I spent some time in the garden. We turned about 80lbs of raw steer manure into the plot. I would have like to have composted it first but we don’t have a compost setup at the garden yet. There were some strawberry plants that were left by the previous plot renter that looked a bit tired so we moved them. Now they all have new growth and seem to be doing better. We also planted 2 onions and an iris.

Today, Terra planted some dwarf sunflowers, a flower seed mix that is supposed to attract birds and butterflies, and an Echinacea root. In our cold frame we have started carrots, beets, radishes, broccoli, zucchini and tomatoes.

We have also purchased a blue berry and will be planting that up on the weekend. I had no idea that blue berries needed another plant of a different type to be pollinated (let me know if I am out to lunch on that one). Other additions in the near future are a mesclun mix, rhubarb, thyme, rosemary and oregano.

I will be posting pictures soon.

Community Garden Update

Brettf — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:00:53 +0000

As promised here is an image of our new community garden plot.

Urban Gardening

Brettf — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:59:57 +0000

Some time ago Terra, my fiance, and I put our name on the waiting list for a plot in the Lower Lonsdale Community Gardens. Yesterday we received a call to inform us that we had been selected for a plot in the garden. We are really excited! We will have a place to compost our vegitable scraps and grow some food. This has been something we have been missing. I will post some pictures once we get introduced to plot #17.