2012 Growing Season!!!

The Our Savior community garden is off to a great start!!! We are excited for what year two in the garden will bring!

The whole garden as of today.

Over the winter we evaluated what went well in the garden last year and what can go better this year.  We figured out how to properly rotate the crops and decided to try some new veggies this year.  The new veggies include potatoes, swiss chard, carrots, beets, radishes, and snow peas.

There were a couple of weeks early this spring when we had a dandelion garden!  Thanks to some amazing volunteers we took care of that problem and we also rototilled the whole garden.

We have already planted some of the early crops:

The preschoolers planted rows of beets and radishes.  They were so excited to go out and help in the garden!  They did their best to get the seeds all in a row and space them out evenly, but based on where things are growing, they didn't quite get the seeds lined up exactly right (but it's all good!).

The other early crops were: onions, potatoes, carrots, broccoli and swiss chard.

Here's the broccoli:

The potatoes and onions are GROWING!

Potatoes



Onions


This past Saturday we planted pumpkins, cantaloupe, zucchini, peas, beans, and acorn squash.

The next (and last) planting day is this Saturday, May 19.  We'll be working in the garden from 9:00-11:00- please join us for all or part of this time!  No gardening experience is needed- just bring some work gloves or garden tools if you have them.