[Garden] Sunday report, June 14

[Britton Jenner]

Hey, I'm from FnB. I'll stop at the garden on saturday before the FnB
serving and pick some lettuce.

Britton

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I went to the garden this afternoon. Our groundhoggy friends have been
> at work again -- I think they breached one fence, and they decimated
> brassicas that were not fenced. I once again attempted to fortify the
> fencing that we already have in place. Saddest of all is that some of
> Angela's new transplants got munched. I think there is not much point
> in putting new transplants that groundhogs find tasty unless the area
> is protected.
>
> Our peas are doing well, however, and it looks like the kale that was
> munched last week is coming back. Our beans are still mostly okay, but
> I think it won't be long before those get munched as well. I was
> considering moving some of the row cover to the beans, but I did not
> do this because I did not want to leave the lettuces or carrots
> vulnerable.
>
> As Dave suggested, I worked on the fence (I hope that my last post did
> not suggest that we should delay this further -- although we should
> get the papers in the hands of Plant Ops it is clear to me that the
> locates are pretty much done). I started digging a trench between the
> posts Dave put in. I did not get that far, however. It was lonely
> work, and would have been a lot more fun with some company.
>
> While digging I have been hitting some tree roots. I am not sure how
> to deal with them. In the worst case I guess we can leave them in.
> More worrying is that there is a baby tree right in the middle of the
> path between the two fence posts.
>
> I also took a look at the composter situation. I think that the best
> approach might be to move the composters forward and to put the fence
> behind them. The next best approach might be to build the fence in
> front of the composters. I think we cannot build behind the treeline.
>
> I think that we might take the approach of digging the trench and
> putting as much fence as we can, using whatever good stakes are in the
> shed. We can then fortify the stakes later if we don't have them ready
> now.
>
> One thing I am reluctant to do is take the fence away from the
> brussels sprouts and kohlrabi. We had been intending to use those for
> the bigger fence, but the plants are thriving now. My fear is that our
> perimeter fence will fail for some reason and these plants will get
> munched. I am fine with getting more fencing to cover the shortfall.
>
> In vegetable news there is a LOT of lettuce available. It is still
> good but I think it is going to start going bitter soon. I think that
> the gardeners should harvest what we can, and that Food Not Bombs
> should take some too. (Is anybody from FnB still reading the list? If
> not maybe Evan could get us in touch?)
>
> We will need to thin the radishes. The greens are edible,
> although they are not my favourite. Soon we will need to thin the
> beets as well. Maybe we should thin the peas but I am inclined not to.
>
> Garlic scapes are starting to grow! They are not curled around yet,
> but they will be soon.
>
> I am wondering whether we should have a big fencing party on Wednesday
> evening. Wednesdays are generally bad for me but if I know that
> several other people are going to be there then I might try to get off
> work early and help.
>
> Otherwise I definitely intend to be there on Sunday, and could be
> there on Thursday as well.
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
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