Wednesday in the Garden

Peggy and Jeannie tend fast-growing
Sunflowers, and water a 
large bed of Zinnias.  Pollinators 
love Zinnias, and Sunflowers act
as a trap crop for leaf footed bugs and
other stink bugs.  

Our long cool rainy spring is producing great spring vegetables and slowing the development of the summer crops.  Peas and potatoes are thriving, beans and squashes are coming along and we’ve just started planting sweet potatoes which need long warm days to thrive.  Mulberries are ripening and there’s a peach or two in our tree.  The intoxicating scent of citrus blossoms has come and gone and the asparagus is morphing into wispy tall ferns.  The growing cycles continue.  

Our gardeners have been busy bracing and nurturing a majestic row of giant sunflowers.  Pollinator plants tended by Laurie and Kwan are beginning to bloom, and preparations are under way throughout the garden for the Open House and Plant Sale at the Leon County Extension on May 7.  This is our first public in-person event in two years at the VegHeadz Garden.  We’re all excited to welcome you and show you around.  We’ll be on hand to answer questions, and share gardening techniques we’ve learned over the past 10 years in the vegetable demonstration garden.

Yen’s Fava Beans are thriving. 
This is a new vegetable in our garden
and it has enjoyed the cool weather. 

The Fava Beans have
many blooms.  

Cathi and Evelyn erected this
tripod trellis in late February

Peas and potatoes like the same
early spring growing conditions

 Pole beans are now creeping up
the tripod trellis

Cathy has planted many 
different plants in the same bed.  
This is a great way to garden.  

Potatoes, thyme, buckwheat, alyssum,
and garlic chives make a 
varied feast for microbes.