2012 GARDEN:

Beginning of March – fertilizer on two pieces of 1100 west garden; 2 bags

March 26^th – planted 4-1/2 rows of peas and 500 onions

March 31^st – planted broccoli and lettuce inside

First week of April – planted tomatoes and peppers by seed at Thanksgiving Point          

April 10 – cabbages and broccoli planted outdoors; planted by seed first week of March; peas are up and a beautiful crop

April 17^th – transplanted seedlings at Thanksgiving point (tomatoes and peppers)

April 24^th – picked up flat of peppers and brought home from Thanksgiving Point to transplant

April 25 – planted two rows of carrots, beets, turnips, marigolds, 2 rows beans

April 27^th – Community Garden mini-class on planting lettuce from seed

May 4^th – picked up corn seed from Chirine

May 12^th – planted first crop of corn (6 rows)

May 14^th – Planted 4 rows of tomatoes and against fences; also 2 more beans; carrots still not coming up and will need to replant

May 18^th – replanted carrots; planted zinnias and 4 rows of beans; hard, hard rain today

May 19^th – planted all sweet and some hot peppers in main garden and prepared ground, laid down tarps and planted watermelons in Wheatley garden (1 bag of fertilizer before planting)

May 24^th – planted second crop of corn (6 rows). 

May 26^th – planted zucchini, squash and cucumbers

May 28^th – planted tomatillos and eggplant

May 31^st – handful of peas picked to see if they are ready – almost; carrots starting to come up a little better; all bean rows up and first two are filling in nicely; zinnias are all up and looking good; beets thinned and look good; Heirloom tomatoes are ready for stakes.

Week of June 5^th – Peas harvested (mostly snow peas for stir fry, a few sugarsnap)

Week of June 7^th – planted cantaloupes (frost damage in some areas of our neighborhood)

June 10^th – HUGE WIND STORM; tore black tarp off of half of the watermelon garden, damaged some tomatoes in main garden

June 22^nd – last time to pick peas

June 27^th – Harvested first potatoes (6 families) – some were small; probably should have waited a little longer

June 27^th – planted cantaloupe and pumpkins

June 27^th and 28^th – planted second crop of onions; sprayed tomatoes for aphids

June 25 – ripped out lots of peas (they produced a LOT this year); drying heirloom peas (Golden Sweet Snow Peas and Sugar Ann snap peas)

Last week of June – turnips were ready for harvesting

Last week of June – Transplanted dill

June 28^th – beans only a few weeks from harvest; starting to flower now

July 5^th – picked apricots (at Bekkah’s)

July 7^th – turnip picked but not bulbous (per Sister Pack), but also she picked potatoes and onions

July 2^nd (week of) – beginning of scheduled bean harvests

July 25^th – picked beans and later that night, bottled about 35 pints

August 6^th – watermelon harvested

August 8^th – first corn harvest

August 9^th – harvest of watermelon (9)

August 16^th – harvest of watermelon (20)

August 23^rd – another harvest of watermelon

September 8^th – last corn harvest (7 different harvest dates: 8/8, 8/10, 8/17, 8/22, 8/29, 9/1, and 9/8)

September 13^th – lots of cantaloupe harvested!

October 2^nd – canned tomatoes

October 11^th – garden pull out

October 12^th – planted strawberries in garden and bottled grape juice; Kim still had 12 boxes of green tomatoes in her garage

October 22^nd – drained sprinklers ahead of pending freeze