Let's Spring into the Growing Season!

Jason and I are super excited for this year's growing season! Already Spring is showing its bright shiny face all around our garden. Our herbs& teas are awakening from their winter sleep, and already it's time to start planting!

Garden Goodies beginning to appear. Wasabi & Chives.

We have much to do this year to get it ready for our GARDEN GABBERS endeavor!   The outside of the house needs painting to start!  There is also more raised beds to be built and filled with dirt, so we can increase our food growing capacity.  We filled many of our raised beds with garlic this year, so we need to replace those occupied beds with new ones. We managed to get two new beds done this week, and already they have been filled with seeds.

 


It's the perfect time to start your Asian greens and any other hardy green like Kale and Chard. One new bed is stuffed full of all this goodness, and the second is full of Sugar Peas. In the week ahead I will be planting a couple more beds of Knight Peas and then to find a place for the Fava Beans.

This year Jason will be working on getting the door, and flaps finished on the greenhouse (before we start most of the planting inside: tomatoes, peppers, cukes). There's also the completion of the 'cold house' that needs to be tended to. Just the walls are up. They need a couple more layers of rock, and then to figure out the roof and the staircase (pathway) for an entrance.


This year we will be welcoming a BEE community! Our friends Rachel & Banning blessed us with a home-made bee hive as a wedding present. I am looking forward to learning more about beekeeping and have much to prepare to create a bee-happy-home-environment for them. I have found a spot that I am going to transform into a 'wild space' of sorts - where I will move over the herbs & teas that come back annually - and where I can add Borage, Bee balm, and Bergamot, and all sorts of wild flowers.


Next, we added a 'conversational piece' to our garden - our Christmas tree.  We decided to buy a potted tree this year - we'll have to see how "Chris" likes his new outdoor home, and if he's interested in joining us for next year's Christmas celebration.

So much to look forward to this year:


1) Garden Gabbers official launch will be in May!

2) Jason, Rachel and Dayna are spearheading a new CSA (Community Shared Agrigulture) garden this year they are naming S.O.L. Farms. This year is the test & learning run - they will only be selling 15 shares for fresh produce this year. Already there are 5 committed. If you want in, better let us know very quick.  Shares are 20$/week for a harvest box... the total weeks of which bring it to $400 for the growing season.  If they can not meet the value of $20/week for the harvest box, (due to poor crop yields) they will be offering refunds.

And oooo the garlic has started to sprout!  And speaking of sprouts... We just ordered a sprouting container from West Coast Seeds that's amazing!  Mmmm fresh sprouts every three days! Jason's school lunches are going to have extra pizazz now!