June plantings & harvest

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Now being harvested by our team of Saturday morning 10am planters:

Bed 17c - lettuce - the outer-most leaves can be picked to make salads.

Bed 21 - mesclun 'cut and come again'  lettuce can be cut with scissors one row at a time; ask how! (you cut horizontally leaving 2" of base to grow all over again.)

Bed 17a - Hakruei turnip has been harvested and replaced with parsnips!

Also: Asparagus, rhubarb individual harvests are ongoing in Beds 14 & 16. Remember to harvest the asparagus by cutting with a knife from below the soil. (Don't break off the spears, this harms the plant). With rhubarb you pull the stalks from low near the root to pull each stalk upward individually.

What has been planted?

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Map was updated June 19th

This week our hard working tomato, cucumber, potato and squash volunteer put in all three crops from the plants we'd kept in the greenhouse from the plantsale. It's been a long cold spring without the heat that these plants need, and so we've had to hold them rather a long time before putting them outside. Hopefully the heat will come. We've had to replant Basil and have lately added Green Beans too. 

Update June 8th-19th: Kale, chard and beets were seeded and transplanted. Parsnips for late fall harvest were seeded in two small areas. Squash has been re-seeded offsite to replace those at DIGS that have suffered from the cold.  

Come to the garden for a self-tour and see all the cool things that are happening in the cool of this late spring-like weather.

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Best, Jen for Digs

Plantsale & tiny pot pickup

 

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Our plantsale in May was a success and many thanks go to all the volunteers who gave many hours over the spring transplanting teeny tiny plants into larger and larger pots. Thanks too to  all the volunteers who watered, transported flats, helped customers, placed signage and all the myriad jobs that go into an event of this scale. Huge thanks to master gardener Jim who single-handedly planned and produced all these plants for us here on this island. Amazing amazing amazing!

 On June 4th two more volunteers will drive around the island picking up the following pots and trays if you put them out on your lawn kindly. These are needed for next years's plantsale ( Please don't drop off pots at the harvest table as too many un-needed strays end up in mixed pot drops :>)

These are the pots that DIGS needs:

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Thanks so much to everyone who helped and especially those who did many many hours of loving plant intelligence. It was fabulous to see the range of plant varieties! Lastly thanks to all who left extra donations on top of their purchases. The more we do the more we can do. And the fragrance, taste and colour are all worth it!

Jen for DIGS

Dessert Auction June 22nd

 

Dessert Auction coming up!

Islanders, have you decided what dessert you are going to do for the June 22 Dessert Auction?  How about a cheese cake or a bundt cake or pound cake? A peach or pecan or pumpkin pie? An Awesome Apple Cobbler, Luscious Lemon Mousse or a Sumptuous Strawberry Trifle? Decisions, decisions, decisions! There is a plethora of good cooks on the island and perhaps you might be one to join the ranks.

Everyone who enters a dessert will put their name in a hat and at the end of the evening 6 lucky cooks will get to take home one of the lovely hanging baskets decorating the tables. So, get digging into those recipe books. June 22 is fast approaching.  

Marg Harris