Garden News

August

• Summer abundance; looking towards fall
• Fall planting

September

• Labor Day weekend – preserving, planting and celebrating
• What have you learned this season?

October

• Why do we grow food?
• Preparing for (possible) rain
• Leave the leaves
• Cleaning up the summer garden

November

• Rain teasers and gratitude

December

• Hooray for the rain!
• What are you giving to your soil?

January

• Cold and wet
• Life’s cycles: endings and beginnings
• So beautiful and so dry
• Planning, pruning and still praying for rain
• Brrr it’s cold out – a time for planning, pruning and cleaning

February

• Worm compost happiness
• Gardening during drought
• Feeding the soil so it can feed us

March

• Rainy March 2016
• Changing times: historic ecology & nasty bugs
• Spring equinox
• Our world transformed
• Spring fever

April

• Cultivating a gardener’s patience
• Bursting spring; planting potatoes in limited space; spring pests.
• Spring pests
• Keeping moisture in the soil
• Take time to smell the roses- there is still lots of time to plant.

May

• Cool weather challenges; weeds-into-gold
• What to do when it’s hot!
• Thinning and spacing
• Sometimes things go wrong..

June

• Thinning fruit; growing peppers
• Beans, the multi-talented vegetable
• Summer lettuce
• Happy Summer Solstice!

July

• “sumer is a cumin’ in…”
• Water challenges, fruit abundance & care, succession plantings
• Mid July in the garden