May 19 Progress at the Garden

With the arrival of our new soil we opted to start again on many of our beds ..........

Three beds were seeded today

Bed 11:  Red Ace Beets, Nantes Coreless Carrots, Early Wonder Tall Top Beets, Berlicummer Carrots and Kincho Scallions - one row of each

Bed 9:  Tri Colour and Green Bush Beans and Kentucky Pole Beans
 
Bed 7a:  Mescluns, Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce, Kale and Red Salad Bowl lettuce were broadcast and two rows of California Giants Zinnia sown along the back of the bed

We also managed a small harvest of Celery Leaf, Parsley and Chives

Now we just have to make sure we keep the seeds watered, carrot seed especially requires moisture until germination

Some of the tomatoes have now been planted out ..........Kimberley, Sleeping Lady, Dwarf Jade Beauty and Cheerful F2 - for more information on dwarfs check out the  Dwarf Tomato Project

And the potatoes and flower garden continue to put on growth

May 14 - Garden Upgrade

An amazing team effort ............ some new beds and some wonderful soil to fill them ..........

a big thank you to all who showed up for the work party

April 28 Many Tasks

The weather cooperated and what a great turn out we had this Sunday .........

Lots of work in the garden, from clearing out old plantings to building new fences; someone had  helped themselves to our entire remaining crop of purple sprouting broccoli, so we decided to clear that bed as well.  At least the compost will benefit!!

The potatoes are sprouting, the strawberries are blooming ............

Not much to harvest this week, but we did get the last of the chard, a few beets and a wee carrot from last fall's planting

April 21 SPEC Cambie Garden

More planting, last week cabbage, this week beets (Red Ace and Early Wonder Tall Top) and kale

The peas, lettuce greens and potatoes have sprouted (Russian Blue and Yukon Gold) time to start hilling up

And our harvest this week, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Bright Lights Chard and Red Russian Kale - both leaves and flower buds

Cambie Garden Spring Cleaning - April 14

The weather cooperated, and we were able to do some spring cleaning, trellis prep and compost bin area clean up

The Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Red Russian Kale continue to provide a bountiful harvest - here is a website with some great ideas for using all those early spring greens

http://whistlingtrainfarm.com/rapini%E2%80%94its-all-in-the-name/

 

Almost Forgot!!

Our harvest from April 7th

Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Russian Red kale - great for kale chips!!

Cambie SPEC Garden - April 7

A productive day in the garden today .........

Cleared out the raspberry runners from Bed 1 and block-planted 3 types of lettuce (Amish Deer Tongue, Red Salad Bowl, Rouge d'Hiver) and some mescluns

Yukon Gold and Russian Blue potatoes were planted in Bed 8 two weeks ago, and because we all love home-grown potatoes,  the rest were planted in Bed 3 today.  Trench method was used.

We also planted peas, both Homesteader (aka Lincoln) and Oregon Sugar Pod II on each side of the trellis

The garden is looking lush and healthly, thanks to both the soil and the wonderful, almost summer-like weather we enjoyed during the Easter weekend.  We decided to keep the flowering broccoli to feed the pollinators and the garlic is thriving.  Ah, Spring, such a wonderful time of the year!

 

SPEC Cambie Garden - Mar 17

Some wonderful sunshine for St Paddy's Day and a great way to kick off our first garden session of the year .......

Focus was on garden clean up, dividing overgrown perennials, moving blueberries, and cutting back the raspberries ......... we also discussed soil/compost needs for the year and browsed through our seed stash  .........

Due to the cold wet weather we thought it best to wait on the potato planting and the peas .....

Garlic is looking good, chard plants made it through our winter and are putting on new growth and the kale is thriving ..........

SPEC Cambie garden- October 14

Well, that's it for our fabulous fall weather, and now the garden clean up begins, including unplugging a clogged drain!!

Plenty of green still in the garden, including calabrese sprouting broccoli, radishes and corn salad

Garlic was planted, Susan Delafield is a beauty

Last of the fall harvest, including Painted Lady runner beans and tomatillos

"The Crew" braving the weather

So that just about wraps up our garden report for 2012, with perhaps a few more visits to check on our fall planted crops

Cambie Garden - Sept. 23

One more week til the harvest moon and the bounty continues

 

A beautiful and tasty truss of Medovaya Kaplya tomatoes

Our white icicle radishes are up, and time to save arugula seed

the fall flowers are putting on a show

and we continue with our fall seeding - corn salad, lettuce and more spinach under the hoop house