April 17th - What we did

Dear Gardeners, Click on this collage image to enlarge and see what's happening in the garden. (use back button to return to here after seeing the above collage in large size.)

Today in the garden we got a whole lot of things done from pruning the tiny apple trees to moving tomato seedlings into the greenhouse.

Some of our DIGS gardeners transplanted dozens of tomato seedlings into small pots, and put them in the greenhouse to stay warm. The cooler crops of spinach and mesclun lettuce that had been in the greenhouse for the past few weeks, were put out on bed 10 of the community garden.

Instead of snipping lettuce at the harvest table, you can now enter the garden, and turn left to bed no. 10. Scissors are provided, and you are welcome to snip and eat the tiny lettuce leaves for your salads. Please leave 1/2 inch to regrow over and over in the same flats. Leave the dirt and the flat behind.
Bring your own baggy. hahhahaa.














Another group of gardeners sifted old sod into gorgeous looking soil, for use in tomato and pepper containers (and potato towers) over the next few weeks.

The snow peas have sprouted in bed no. 2, and there are tons of volunteer bizarrio cucumber sprouts which can be romoved (lest they are franken-cukes from cross-polination.)

One of our DIGS members valiently cleaned out re-cycled 5 gallon buckets to be used as green-pepper/hot-pepper growing containers.
And there are more seeds to go in soon.
A small amount of apple pruning was done (removing side shoots that are too low, and root-stock shoots which are not useful.) and a good time was had in the misty rain by all. Super strong coffee curled our hair, and so did the mist.

Oh yes, and the comfrey is doing really well.
Comfy in it's comfrey place behind the compost bins:

















We're hoping to use comfrey in our compost "tea" this year (plus horsetail and nettle).















These three plants are apparently terrific ingredients for compost-juice-boosts for our plants.

More to follow.
Had to get in out of the rain (er...the mist) with my good camera.
Ah, the rain has stopped; more photos next post above.
J.