hot and dry for fall planting
We’re right in the middle of a beautiful summer and I’m doing a countdown to our fall frost as I do my fall planting. All right, it’s beautiful as in blue skies, but sort of dry. All right, very dry. Emergency water restrictions in some neighboring towns. Our bushes are dying, grass is crispy. I’m doing my best to keep my vegetable garden watered but our restrictions only allow watering twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday. My mom and I both have grass that crunches when you walk on it.…
today’s harvest
This is the harvest from my community garden plot today. The onions are so small with the drought. I’m picking my tomatoes very green to ripen at home because the chipmunks are eating them for any moisture they can find. The green beans are hardly producing at all. I wonder what will be under the soil when I dig the potatoes and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes droop down so fast in the dry weather. A nice thing is that I’ve had 4 pretty little acorn squash ripen very early.
garden photos
This is my community garden. Hot and dry! Skippy and Suzie waited in the small piece of shade under the butternut squash arbor while I worked.
garden work
I worked a few hours in my community garden plot today. It is SO dry. The soil is dust and most plants are wilted. I haven’t had time to water more than once a week and some of the plants just barely grow on that amount of water, even though I water very deep when I do go. Garden work: – weed – cut down potatoes (after two weeks I will start digging them) – pull onions that were ready (falling over) – pick tomatoes, beans, and acorn squash –…
planting fall seedlings!
I’m planting fall seedlings now for me, my mom, and my community garden. Our community garden is big: 137 plots on 2 acres. We’re selling seedlings $1 a pot to benefit the gardens. We’ve gotten orders for about 125 pots of seedlings so far. Plus, we want to have extra plants available for those who didn’t order and will want to buy some on our distribution day. We’re offering most as 4-seedlings per pot. Larger plants (like broccoli) will be 4-packs with 1 plant per cell. It’s a big job…
Mom’s garden
This morning I visited my Mom and planted more of her garden. It’s doing really well I have to say. Much more is planted there than in my gardens. Today I planted seedlings: 7 tomatoes, several peppers, a couple broccoli, some escarole, and a couple each of yellow summer squash and zucchini squash. Also I planted seeds for beets, sunflowers, and nasturtiums. I forgot to take photos. Next time.
community plot planted – finally
May 23! I can’t believe I am planting so late this year. Today at my community plot I planted 4 varieties of seed potatoes today, lots of onions, leeks, and green onion seedlings. Also, flower seedlings: heliotrope, marigolds, and bells of Ireland. Flower seeds: sunflowers and nasturtium. The season has been chilly and the estimates are that the weather here is 2 weeks late in warming up. I think I’m another week late on top of that. We had a water problem at our community garden and finally got our…
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
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
