Getting the Community Garden Plot Ready ...

 

My Community Garden has also been taken care of in good time this year. In order to make better use of this piece of land I have made a concerted effort to address the tasks in this plot early on. I paid my renewal fee, turned the soil in the back section and planted in the sweet peas and the fava beans. The favas will stay in the garden until summer and I will harvest them and the garlic, which is already up and growing, punching through the leaf mulch, at about the same time.

 

 

 

 

Somehow I had the foresight in fall of 2012, when I was prepping the bed for planting the garlic, to dig a trench around the perimeter of the box and I heaped the soil onto the middle of the bed. Into this raised bed I planted the cloves of garlic in the front section of the bed. Just as well that I did that because we have had so much rain that the garlic would have been sitting in water and could have rotted.

 

Another important resource, other than worms, that I bought at Seedy Saturday was three bags of composted horse manure which I will apply to my beds along with the compost I have been making at home when I am ready to plant my summer crops.

It feels great to be back out working in the garden ....

Gift of Honey Comb ...

 

Check out this beautiful honey that was gifted to me.

Brian, the bee keeper on the farm was cleaning up the hives in readiness for a new season. He was quite despondant because of all the bees that died over winter. I promised him we would make an effort to consider the bees this year and plant more flowers that would provide them with nectar.

 

 

 Brian gave me this beautiful piece of honey comb dripping with honey. I promised him I would take a piece to share with the volunteers. I popped a piece in my mouth ... honey comb and all and savoured the intense flavour of this most amazing food made by bees.

THE 2013 GROWING SEASON IS REVING UP ...

 

Getting ready for more veggie gardening 2013:

 

 

 

I have now emptied my compost bins, harvesting the compost by moving it out of the bin and into a bucket with holes in the bottom so it can complete it breakdown and drain off the remaining moisture.

I have removed the worms I could find in the finished compost and relocated them in a bin with more organic food waste for them to feed on and break down. I also bought more "red wrigglers" at yesterday's Seedy Saturday and added them to the new compost bins. Lots of worm power working for me!

Trays of seeds are now sprouted and waiting for warmer weather ...