The Garden
A group of people from our area are working together to build us a Co-op/Farm/Garden. Deciding to do this as the planting season was already upon them, they worked quickly to form up an operation that will start the summer of 2008 off to a great start.
Thank you all.
Rainbow Cabbage
Brave little starts peep through, lets see what follows.
Mounds Abound
Mounds that will soon be vegetables.
Zucchini and squash will abound from the mounds, watch them grow.
Summer growth is here
Broccoli heading it up.
Squash
Here's what a mound can grow?
Tomatoes are liking it
Love those tomatoes.
Meet farmer Adams
Neil opened up his land and home to the Co-op farm initiative, it is a great start initiated with love and enthusiasm.
The garden group has planned their crops for next year, they have prepared a large plot and have the experience of the last season to build upon. They are bonded as a group and looking forward to their works beginning as the spring weather encourages the new growth.
Good luck all of you and thank you for your energy and efforts.
The Garden 2009
Another growing season is here, the garden started in May this year. John spent a lot of time and effort tilling and re tilling the garden plot (he burned up his tiller). Prep work really started in April in the rolling up of tarps that had covered most of the garden and weeding along the fence lines.
Seeds were started indoors, mine didn't make it. John and Karolyn Burdick, Ava Arsaga and Jason Williams (both new to the community) and Raese Reeves spent around 6 man hours. John tilled again for 3.5 hours
By May 12 the seedlings were showing through. By the 18th a work party to plant the starts. John, Karolyn, Ava and Jason planted celery, corn, squash, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, peas, potatoes, two kinds of beets, carrots and kale. Work party took 8 man hours. May 23rd we fertilized the garden with fish fertilizer, used worm tea on rhubarb and sunflowers one additional man hour.
May 31 watered for 1.5 hours and used 7.6 cubic ft of water.
The gardens spinach is now ready to be picked.
