my plot

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A drab gray sky. A fading garden. Beds are emptying and compost bin is filling. But don’t the last few greens look nice. I added a photo of lettuce from someone else’s plot where the lettuce is still well weeded and evenly spaced. Mine has degraded to unthinned and unweeded rows (but still looks good – I think). These photos are from Thursday. Everyday now I wonder whether vegetables will be there when I return to the plot. No sense in using row cover if I don’t go evening (to…
 
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my garden plot after vacation

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Always fun to see whats new in the garden after being away for vacation. – The small pumpkins are turning orange. The big ones are getting enormous. I found 2 today and wouldn’t be surprised if there are more to be found under the vines. – The butternut vines are starting to mildew. But no signs of stem borers. I picked my first butternut squash today AND I counted 16 more! Amazing for 3 plants! – The savoy cabbage is heading nicely as well as a couple more red cabbages.…
 
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rainy day

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Yesterday, Skippy and I got caught in the rain at the garden. A nice warm rain and we just kept on weeding anyway.
 
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this is the garden

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this is the garden:colours come and go, e.e. cummings this is the garden:colours come and go,frail azures fluttering from night’s outer wingstrong silent greens silently lingering,absolute lights like baths of golden snow.This is the garden:pursed lips do blowupon cool flutes within wide glooms,and sing(of harps celestial to the quivering string)invisible faces hauntingly and slow. This is the garden. Time shall surely reapand on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled,in other lands where other songs be sung;yet stand They here enraptured,as amongthe slow deep trees perpetual of sleepsome silver-fingered fountain…
 
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my plot

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Two views. The top one is the view from the west and the bottom one is the view from the east.
 
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my community plot

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I’ve filled up all my beds and have begun planting extra plants in the paths. (The paths were too wide anyway…) It seems like everything is growing very fast. Potatoes are enormous. The tomatoes are beginning to grow well. Squash and eggplants too. I put melons and pumpkins at the edges of paths to grow up the fences. The cabbages and lettuce are especially lovely now.
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



What I'm planting soon

April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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“I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together.” – Greg Peterson

"What can happen to a seed is a miracle."

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