Wednesday in the Garden

Some of our intrepid gardeners—
Mike, Louie, Cathi and Cathy

It was a cool day at the VegHeadz garden, but a number of the VegHeadz turned out to weed, and plant, and collaborate, and plan for the VegHeadz table at next week’s annual MG meeting.   No matter the weather, it’s never a good day to miss being in the garden.  

Seen in the garden this week:

Some variety of Pak Choy

Fennel, ready for butterfly larvae
to munch

Beautiful lettuce

Winter vegetables are fun—
many shapes and shades of green

Broccoli almost ready for harvest.  Each 
little bump is a flower bud.  

Peppers—maybe Aji Dulce

Echinacea—Purple Coneflower
Undaunted by recent cold snaps

Looks like Carrots, but it’s
really Dill

The persistent tomato in the Hugelkultur
bed is still producing.  These tomatoes are
down in the center of the plant which 
gives them some frost and cold protection.  

Jalapeno peppers.  In warmer weather 
they would ripen to red if 
left on the plant

Several of our banana trees have produced bananas. Unfortunately they. will not have
time to develop and ripen in winter’s cool weather and short days. Last winter we had a
hard freeze and all the banana trees died back. It takes a banana plant up to 18 months to
bear fruit in our climate.  These “trees” had to first regrow and then produce fruit,
which didn’t give them time to develop completely.  Bunches which are
mostly developed with plump bananas can be cut and ripened inside.  
These undeveloped bunches will be removed and composted along with the plants on which
they grew (will not bear fruit again) and any other surplus banana plants developing within the mat.
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