Pictures from today's garden work day

In these photos we are relocating the propagating greenhouse and the pergola as we vacate the Rusk land.  Great team work by all.  Thanks Terri for the photos to us via Mark.

[HG] Garden relocation meeting

Reminder!

 What: Garden Relocation meeting

When: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 7PM

Where: Common House

The garden leadership will present 3 garden relocation options (linked below) based on community input.

Pros and cons for each design will be presented and comments collected

You will be able to prioritize the options

 A garden relocation recommendation will be presented to the Higher Ground Board at their July meeting.

Kevin's design
Tom's design
Perry/Casey's design

Interplanting

In 2017 we reduced the east garden portion to half and planned some interplanting of two crops:  carrots/radishes, cabbage/butterhead, spinach/peas.  They seem to be working fine so far.  We had a few boo-boos:  we didn't interplant carrots & radishes; kales planted into carrots (maybe worth repeating that one intensionally).

Garden relocate: notes and charts

Here are most of our notes and charts from our various garden relocation meetings.
-Perry

2017 soil block recipe

Here's the 2017 soil block recipe.  Photos of the ingredients are in the order of the recipe.

(we should make this blog's Guide match this recipe) 

2017 first weekends

April 1 Marci lead our opening celebration.  Following that we prep'd the perennial beds by removing quack grass and transplanting some strawberries.  April 8 we added about 37 new asparagus and started first crops of spinach and lettuce in the N. tunnel.  Soon we get new strawberries.

What's new in the garden for April 23, 2016

Completed Garden work day task list for April 23, 2016

Number of Gardeners: 15

Tasks

·         Block 100 lettuce plants

o   Block 80 parsnips

o   Block 50 Napa cabbage

o   Block 100 Red beets (Red Ace)

o   Block 100 Yellow beets (Bolder)

o   Block 100 spinach (Reflect)

o   Place pea fence on east half of row 10 and 11

o   Direct seed snow peas (Back half of row 10 and 11)

o   Cover 40 degree beds.

o   Complete grid system

o   Prep 40 degree beds

o   Arugula (11A) by compost

o   Broccoli (Row 18)

o   Kale row 15 A and B (by kitchen compost)

o   Snow Peas-east half of row 10 and 11

o   Spinach row 13

o   Place Pergola shade cloth

o   New solenoid and pressure switch in prep greenhouse

o   Mix new batch of soil blocking mix

o   Turn Cover Crop

o   Weed

o   Weed grass along fence next to kids garden

o   Flower bed by garden entrance

o   Rows 10,11,19 and 20 (west side of garden by kitchen compost)

o   Along outside of north tunnel greenhouse