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The overwintering chard and kale is coming on strong with terrific spring growth.
We love our hoophouse, where we just started harvesting the lettuce we planted mid-February. Great to get early salad greens in the Food Bank. Now we’ve also planted lettuce, peas, chard and kale out in the field.
Brrrr! But it’s still cold, though, so we’re protecting our little starts with floating row cover!
In the greenhouse we’re growing lots of starts not only for the garden, but to distribute to Food Bank clients.
Lots of bed prep, and great satisfaction when the starts are planted!
A big thank you to all the Whitman College students who volunteered during their spring break!
The lettuce starts were beautiful, as were the spinach and kale starts! We did a deep weeding and cleanup of the hoophouse,
And planted them all to be the first crop of the 2013 season!
Mmmm, mmmm, love that warm weather! Who knows how long it will last, but it’s warm enough to plant the tomato starts in the hoophouse.
First harvest of lettuce, bagged and into the Food Bank it goes!
It’s been cold, oh so cold, but we’ve been harvesting overwintered collards and kale from the garden, and growing lots of starts in the greenhouse. It’s just been too chilly to plant them out in the field!
The fruit trees were pruned, thanks to able instruction from Sarah Birger, and we now have all the beds at the Langley Middle School Garden turned over and ready for planting.
But the hoophouse is just cranking it out! We’ve had three cuttings of the cut and come again salad mix planted last fall, and we’ve planted bokchoi, spinach, lettuce and kale already this spring.
A big thank you to the Whitman College students who came to the March 14th Wednesday work party, and helped with seed blocking, weeding, planting and harvesting!
Lots of little baby veggies growing in the greenhouse these days! We’ve got lettuce, chard, spinach, kale, leeks and scallions so far.
We’re transplanting the tiny babies out into seed blocks, and then growing them on in our compact and cozy growing box. Giant winter spinach (it grows really well in the spring) and bok choi starts have already been planted in the hoophouse!
If you are interested in learning how to grow starts, and get a jump on the season, come to the Growing Groceries class on Tuesday, March 6th, at 5:00 pm in the Good Cheer Garden.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on Martin Luther King Day to serve their neighbors and communities.
Join us for our annual work party on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January, 16th, from 10 am – 3:30 pm. There will be outside winter gardening work at the Good Cheer Garden and the Bayview School Garden. Picnic lunch at noon with hot soup, and salad greens from the garden!
We’re having such a mild winter so far that the overwintering crops are doing really well out in the field– spinach, kale, collards, chard and arugula are all surviving and even growing a little. The cut-and-come-again salad mix in the hoophouse is ready for a harvest.
Fall has come to the garden! There’s still lots we’re harvesting, but it’s also time to cleanup the beds, plant the cover crops, and get ready for winter.
Beautiful broccoli, and lovely leeks! Plus carrots, kale, chard, collards, bokchoi and lettuce are still producing.
The last of the tomatoes were harvested and we’re planting some cool weather greens in the hoophouse.
Over 300 pounds came into the Food Bank from the Langley Middle School Garden.
It’s hard to say goodbye to the fresh veggies, and turn the beds over, but now the soil and the gardeners will rest! Join us the last Wednesday in October to say goodbye to Stephanie Turco, Good Cheer Garden summer apprentice!
Yes, there are plants growing under the floating row covers! We pulled the covers back to give the plants some unfiltered sun, and mulch them with fresh grass clippings. The kale, bok choi and lettuce are all growing, albeit several weeks behind last year’s warmer spring.
But in the deliciously warm hoophouse, the lettuce is rocking! We harvested 42 pounds on the last Wednesday in April to provide abundant fresh greens for the food bank.
To keep up with the crop rotation, we’re planting hundreds of starts each week. The tomato starts are doing really well, and the squash have just been sown. This is great work when it’s pouring outside, a frequent occurrence lately.
A huge thank you goes to all the intrepid volunteers who have braved the challenging spring weather to keep the garden growing!
The only way we’re going to grow anything this cold spring is with the help of floating row covers, and lots of them! The starts we planted are growing, with kale, lettuce, bok choi, spinach and chard doing their best under the conditions.
Thank goodness for the hoophouse! We pick the spinach hard on the Wednesday work party, and it’s grown back in one week. Lettuce is very happy, and now the kale is coming on. You can see the difference warmth makes!
The bok choi loves it in the hoophouse, too. The first rotation is already harvested and we planted more spinach starts.
Lucky us, the hail storm in those threatening clouds didn’t make it to the garden! Now the plum blossoms are bravely blooming. Time for bees, and hope!
Rain and rainbows!
It’s really cold, wet spring weather, but the daylight is returning, the equinox is around the corner, and we have lots of starts that need planting!
We’ve been making hundreds of starts to put out in the field- kale, chard, bok choi, lettuce and spinach.
The starts we planted in the hoophouse in mid-February survived the cold snap and are doing great!
Now it’s time to be outside! The beds are prepped, the kale starts planted…
And quickly covered with floating row cover to keep them warm and protected from the wind!
