end of August garden aerial

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I’ve worked on several projects in my side yard the past two weekends. I have been fixing up a little flower garden next to my cold frame (bottom center of this photo), I’ve mulched and weeded the vegetable beds, and I’ve set up a new grape arbor just to the left of this photo. I’ll post separately on each of these projects. If you want to, you can click on this photo and mouse over to what’s planted where.
 
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reflecting on my community plot

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It seems that gardens are a reflection of a person and what’s going on. This year my garden is fending for itself a fair amount of time. The soil is good and the weather has been nice, so my plants have done well. But I have big areas of unplanted space. Some fall greens are coming along under lights at home and will fill these in soon. My mom is pretty sick right now. I’ve been visiting the hospital and keeping her company. She had some bad luck it will…
 
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a wet week at the gardens

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Wow! 4 days of non stop rain and drizzle after 3 months of dry weather. We sure needed it. And it was very pretty. The newly seeded fall crops are enjoying it. Skippy and I walked through the Belmont Community Garden paths on Wednesday in the drizzle and checked out the gardens.
 
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garden bulletin boards

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A local boy scout is making a bulletin board for our community garden. I’ve been looking into the types of boards that other gardens and parks have. We’d like to have one side covered with plexi and locked for “official” notices and the other open cork board for general use. It will be located along our main path entering the gardens. It seems it would be good to have more communication.
 
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garden notes

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We had a very successful garden event today. We requested volunteers come to help dig a trench (about 125 feet long x 1 ft deep) to run an extra water line to the new plots. About 25 people came and it was short work to dig, lay line, and back fill. Thanks to all who came! I checked on my beans at my plot today. I had a terrible problem with Mexican bean beetle. On Thursday, I sprayed with Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Spray. I am pleased with the results.…
 
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Sunshine Yellow watermelon seeds

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I got a fantastic yellow fleshed watermelon from Piccadilly Farm. They told me the variety is Sunshine (Johnny’s Seeds). I collected seeds from my watermelon, but now that I see its an F1 hybrid, I will throw out the seeds 🙁 and put them on my list to order next year. I hope I can grow this great variety myself.
 
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crops for the cold frame

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I am thinking about what to grow in my cold frame this fall. I’d like to keep it active as long as I can. I found this advice from Johnny’s website interesting: “If you have a hoop house, you can grow many cool-weather crops for harvest right through December. The trick is to get your crops established before the day length drops below 10 hours; after that, plants won’t grow much, but they will tolerate cold temperatures until you’re ready to harvest them. Some of the vegetables you can plant…
 
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garden work

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– Spray bean plants with Captain Jack’s Deadbug Brew, active ingredient is the bacterium Spinosad. (Its an organic approved spray and I have no idea yet if it will work on my bean beetles, which BTW are turning in very nice orange bugs with black spots.) – Remove my old red painted garden box that has fallen apart and replace with a basic brown plastic box for my garden stuff. – Replace the broken tie wraps holding my fence to the fence posts. – Harvest dill and summer squash. –…
 
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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

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Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

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tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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