In early June, we commenced our summer hours, meeting on Friday mornings to get our work done before the heat of the day. We planted some seedlings; sowed cucumbers and Malabar spinach; harvested lettuce, radishes, sugar snap peas, and mustard greens; mulched; weeded; and generally kept busy (with the reward of sampling the bounty afterwards!). I was able to bring a huge bag of lettuce and a sizeable one of mustard greens to the food pantry. Unfortunately, the ground squirrels have done in a number of our transplants, which is discouraging. But a lot of things that are growing well, and we look forward to a bountiful summer!
A growing garden! See the handsome garlic coming up there on the right? We planted it so late we weren't sure if it would survive. What a nice surprise! (Now if only I had thought to label the different varieties...) The bales of straw mulch were donated by Jim and Peggy Holmes-Hicks and will help keep our garden hydrated and suppress weeds.
Throughout the month we continued to plant seedlings, weed, harvest, and attempt to stem the efforts of the ground squirrels and voles, who kept eating nearly everything we transplanted! (There’s a hawk who lives somewhere around here, but apparently he’s not doing his job.) One day, we planted a tomato seedling and then went to another part of the garden for less than five minutes - when we came back, the seedling had disappeared! Grrr. |