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| Hardy herbs love the heat—Rosemary and Oregano |
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| Purple Shiso loves the semi-shade in the forest garden |
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| Tulsi Basil, also known as “Holy” Basil. It makes a refreshing tea. |
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| Can you find the baby cucumber? |
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| Cathy and Mary pick hundreds of tiny tomatoes |
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| The Shade. We remind each other to take a break and a drink. Photo by Peggy McDonald |
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| Most of the people who have been growing the flowers and vegetables that are thriving in the garden. |
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| Just one view |
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| Peppers |
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| Blackberries |
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| Sunflowers |
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| Yarrow |
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| Nasturtiums |
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| Cosmos |
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| Pole beans |
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| Black Tomatoes |
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| Green Tomatoes |
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| Red Tomatoes |
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| Eggplant |
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| Peas |
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| Squash |
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| A few weeks ago (previous post) we pictured Peggy pruning the Katrina roses. This is the result. It took her six hours to complete the job, but it was sooo worth it. |
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| A beautiful day in the garden. |
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| Potatoes |
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| A great mix--Rosemary, onions, garlic, squash, tomatoes |
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| Bush beans |
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| Zinnias. The pollinators love them, and so do we. |
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| Peppers, onions, squash, tomatoes |
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| Lots of work has been going on in the Forest Garden |
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| And it's looking good |
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| Come to the Open House and see what we do with our Bamboo |
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| Our youngest gardener. He really enjoyed the tender new asparagus spears. |
Spend some time with us in the garden.
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| There’s more than one way to carry an unwieldy load. |
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| Cardboard and mulch, cardboard and mulch |
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| Harvesting the last of winter’s greens |
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| Building a new blackberry patch, a great addition to the food forest |
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| The mulchers have depleted our supply, Time to order more. |
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| Weeding in the perennial pollinator beds before they spring back to life. |
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| Potatoes are planted here |
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| It didn’t take them long to start growing. |
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| French Breakfast Radishes |
Most of us had not been in the garden for several weeks over the holidays so we didn’t really know what to expect when we returned. What we found was a thriving cornucopia of greens and other winter vegetables.
Some of the green was furnished by the weeds that had sprouted up in vacant areas while we were gone, so everyone got busy.
We harvested different kinds of radishes, tat soi, and mustard; and pruning the Bay Laurel bush produced lots of bay leaves for drying.
It was great to be back in the garden.
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| We think this is mustard, but it’s forming a head |
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| Communal weeding is much more fun. We will be planting blueberries here |
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| The Chayote is so sneaky. Last year’s cold really knocked it back. Peggy thought it produced no fruit. Winter die-back revealed one very large chayote in an adjoining tree |
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| Laurie is helping place cardboard and mulch between garden beds |
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| Jeanne is hidden by the lush radish foliage |
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| Daikon Radish— delicious and mild, fresh or pickled |
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| The mustard in Glenn B.’s Heritage bed is beautiful |
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| The “Back Forty” |
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| Linda’s lettuce and tat soi looks great |
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| Nancy harvested most of the C bed radishes |
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| Collards, of course |
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| Mixed winter cover crop. It’s a good time to cut and drop cover crops so they can decompose before spring planting. |
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| Cabbages are heading up in the 4-H beds |
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| Redbor Kale |
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| Mustard cover crop |
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| The Daikon and Collards in the Biochar Trial beds are looking great |
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| Enjoying some citrus shared from home by several VegHeadz |
