garlic shipment is here

 
 
My garlic shipment is here!!! I’m excited to get it in the grown a bit early this year. Maybe this week? (I was too late last year.) I have my potato bed dug and ready to go for the garlic. I’ll add a couple inches of compost, turn it under, and then its ready to plant. e-how asked me to do a couple of videos on planting garlic. I am hoping to do these this week and will post links. I ordered the garlic variety “Music” from Territorial. I like…
 
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last seedlings

 
 
These are my last seedlings of the season. They will go out in the cold frame soon. Maybe tomorrow. I will pull aside the cucumber vines and pull out the eggplants to make room for them. These are mostly salad greens. Spinach, lettuce, escarole and arugula. A few broccoli’s. I just love a cold frame full of winter spinach!
 
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pumpkins on the doorstep

 
 
I bought these pumpkins at the supermarket. They’re not home home grown…. (but the supermarket is local) It just takes up so much space to grow pumpkins. Even though I love them. I’ve been really pleased with my garden’s production of butternut squash routinely. But when I grow pumpkins in my small space, sometimes they produce well, sometimes they don’t. Always they take up a LOT of space. I gave my pumpkin seedlings to my parents this year for their big garden. They got many pumpkins, but not really so…
 
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photos of our community garden

 
 
Slide show – 53 photos of our garden plots Its fall, the season is over and most of our garden plots are looking pretty raggedy. Some still going strong, some have already been put away for winter, some just look neglected. We usually have a fair amount of plots that get overgrown with weeds. That’s mine in the lower right. Still pretty full of food crops. Dahlias and nasturtiums are doing well too.
 
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community garden meeting

 
 
We have an “Input Meeting” scheduled for our Community Garden tomorrow evening. We’ll discuss what’s most important for a community garden to provide, how do we give all gardeners a voice, and how do get things done. Our Garden management gets plenty of input about what gardeners want the Gardens to provide, but fewer ideas on HOW to get it done. I don’t know if these are common issues for community gardens. I’m curious about the experience of other community gardeners. Our Community Garden is unique for our area as…
 
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thyme for fall

 
 
On the first full day of fall, here are photos of my thyme. Gnome is doing a super job of tending it!!! My mom gave me this variety from her garden. It’s very winter hardy and has grown for years for her (northern MA). It encroaches on her lawn as a nice low mat, good for waking on, with pretty white blooms for the bees. In my garden, I have to pick it often to keep it from overgrowing the young blueberry bush next to it. It sprawls past my…
 
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fast growing greens

 
 
Lettuce and escarole on September 6  The same plot, two weeks before – Aug 23 We’ve had perfect weather for the fall seedlings. It’s amazing how fast they’re growing. Next week I’ll apply another dose of my new fish fertilizer to keep them growing. Since they sent the fertilizer to me free, I am doing a little advertising for them. You can order this fertilizer here: Fish Rich.
 
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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



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April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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