Cute little green caterpillars are devastating our poor brassicas. We’re growing way too many to physically remove all the worms. We’re going to try some pepper spray over the next couple of day, hopefully that will work. Several permaculture sites suggest interplanting brassicas with thyme to deter the worms. We’ll be sure to try that in the fall planting!
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Support Local Growers and Sewers!
9 MayAysia over at Poteest has offered to donate 20% of sales to the garden during the month of May! Check out her handmade wallets!
Fundraising Success
7 MayWe would like to thank everyone that participated in Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge. We made over $800 at the event. With that money we’ll be able to buy soil, rain barrels, and some of the cedar. We also want to give a big thank you to Gregory Hills Church for letting us use their space at the last minute. It was perfect!
Pictures to come!
30 Apr
We’ve been hardening off the seedling the last ten days or so. I must admit, we’ve learned a lot! Our poor Brassicaceae ended up being the guinea pigs, and the results weren’t too pretty. We lost about 20 of them, mostly by killing with kindness (over-watering). We started transplanting them into bigger cups (donated by Benetti’s!) and figured since the cups were so big we wouldn’t need to poke holes in the bottom for drainage. Wrong. The cups were so deep that we couldn’t tell when to water them (or not to). In the end, we decided to harden off the rest of the seedlings in their original containers and will transplant them later if at all.
Peas & Carrots
10 AprThe beds still aren’t up, but are firmly scheduled for April 25th. So… we didn’t get our peas planted when we should have. We didn’t want the seeds to go to waste this year, so we planted them at my mom’s house. We’ll save seeds there to use in our garden next year. We also planted some carrots and beets!
Cedar Bed
Sugar Snap Peas
Golden Beets
Tomatoes are Planted
25 MarThis weekend Megan and I planted more than 350 tomatoes. The plants will be for sale at the event as well as all kinds of others like peppers, herbs, etc. The cedar beds are going up this coming weekend. It’s so nice to see everything taking form. We’d like to make this event a huge success, so if you have a hand to lend, let us know. I’ll post new pictures of the seedlings soon!
Sprouts!
10 MarIt’s only been a couple of days but we already have some sprouts coming up.
I’ve aparently had my camera on a stupid setting the last few days. I’ll get some good quality pictures up soon.
Seed Starting
7 MarSo today we realized, once again, what a huge undertaking this is! We have 60 different types of plants, and several varieties of most of them. We have twelve different kinds of tomatoes. As exciting as today was, it just made the project that much more daunting. Our goal is to start enough seeds not only for the garden, but also to sell. We converted the storage room in my house to be a grow room. Trying to make enough surface space for all of the seeds in itself has been a challenge. Here’s where we’re at so far.
Putting up a flourescent light fixture
We even have a new friend!
This just includes peppers, lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage broccoli, brussel sprouts, herbs, and eggplant. That is such a small fraction of what we have. We still need more egg crates or seed trays. Thanks everyone!
Garden Plans
18 FebWe met with the board again for a final approval of the plans. We’re starting to organize a fundraiser for April 4th and moving our planting date to mid-April. More details to come!
The design
