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Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, August 29, 2015. And the plants just keep on growing! Another week of major garden harvests! And another week of good growth for the fall planted crops. On Saturday, all the beans, beets, carrots, kohlarbi, lettuce, radishes, and squash are sprouted and growing strong. Just nine weeks until […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, August 22, 2015. The 2015 garden season continues strong – and wet, and hot! Weather all year has been nearly perfect, if anything maybe a little too wet, especially this week. A freak downpour Thursday night dumped over two inches of rain in a couple of hours on […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, August 15, 2015. Another good week for growing in the garden, and much progress was made on the second season. Some of the fall crops – the Bolero carrots, Nero Tondo radishes, summer squash, green beans, dill and kohlrabi are planted. But a couple of surprise thunderstorms this […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, August 8, 2015. Knock on wood… the weather this 2015 gardening season has been spectacular for growing. Let’s hope it keeps up like this for the rest of the year. Spent some time harvesting, weeding, turning soil & preparing for additional garden activity this week. The seeds from […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, August 2, 2015. This week I’ve begun preparation for the ‘second season’ in the garden. The green beans – which had maxed out in their production over a week ago – have been pulled, as have the zucchini & yellow squash plants. They’ll be replanted for a second […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, July 25, 2015. We’ve hit ‘peak-garden’ this week, with the zucchini & yellow squash plants now beginning to fade, beets and kohlrabi rows opening up as they are harvested, and green beans maxed out in their production. Time to start preparing the second wave of planting for fall […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, July 17, 2015. Yet another very productive week at the garden. On Wednesday, it was two-and-a-half lbs. of green beans, a big bag of lettuce, a couple of peppers (jalapéno & cayenne), cucumbers, three more zucchini and a summer squash. Last night I brought home another 1+ lb. […] Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden, July 11, 2015. 2015 has been a wonderful year for gardening so far, and it was very productive at the garden this week. I brought home a good amount of cucumbers, zucchini and summer squash, and the first batch of chard as well. See the two images below […] |