February 2012

Date:    02/02/12    Time:    10:30 AM

• Harvested cauliflower from beds K and M.
• Fertilized onions in row garden with Sea Tea.
• Melting Sugar Snap peas in bed L didn’t make.  Replanted with Ferry-Morse Alaska Wilt Resistant peas (58 days to harvest) and Ferry-Morse Melting Sugar peas (72 days to harvest).

Date:    02/03/12    Time:    10:00 AM

• Harvested cauliflower from bed M.
• Harvested greens from bed C.
• Harvested turnips from bed G.
• Planted bed D with:
• Transplants
• Red Southern Belle and White Bermuda onions
• Onion chives
• Bright Lights chard
• Green Oakleaf lettuce
• Red radicchio
• Red Fire lettuce
• Firecracker lettuce
• Red Sails lettuce
• Fordhook Giant chard
• Seeds
• Purple Top and Tokyo Cross turnips
• Planted bed H with transplants
• Red Southern Belle, White Bermuda and Yellow Bunching onions
• Garlic chives
• Green Bibb and Buttercrunch lettuce
• Planted bed K with Red Oakleaf lettuce transplants

Date:    02/07/12    Time:    10:00 AM

• Harvested cauliflower from bed M.
• Planted bed M with:
• Transplants of red and white onions
• Tendergreen spinach mustard from seed

Date:    02/14/12    Time:    10:00 AM

• Harvested cabbage from beds K and M.

Date:    02/17/12    Time:    10:00 AM
Observations:    Received .3 in of rain as of this morning.

• Planted Burpee Early White Vienna and Purple Vienna kohlrabi from seed in bed D.

Date:    02/21/12    Time:    10:00 AM

• Beds K & M
• Harvested the last of the broccoli and cabbage from these beds.
• Pulled all remaining cruciferous veggies from these beds.
• Pulled all bolting greens from beds C and G.
• Mowed Alban rye in green manure area.
• Started fresh compost in first bin of 3-bin system using the mowed Alban rye, garden waste and horse manure.
• Removed some sage and other plants from culinary herb bed A to make room for new plants.
• Sorted out amendments and other supplies and rearranged them across old and new storage boxes.
• Painted disabled gardener-enabled planting table.
• Mowed, moistened and re-covered solarized area.
• Worked on leaks in 4-zone hose timer area.  Need parts to fix.

Date:    02/28/12    Time:    10:00 AM

• Fixed leaks in 4-zone hose timer area.
• Planted Malabar spinach from seed.
• Planted zucchini from seed in bed G.
• Planted Rene’s Garden Summer Scallop Squash Trio from seed in bed G.
• Harvested asparagus.