7/20 Workparty

Carol, Jada, Margot, Jeff, Michelle, Christina, Abi

Weeded cukes, beans.

Harvested zucchini, what lettuce hadn't bolted, radishes, cukes, garlic scapes.

we decided to let a few lettuce go to seed & pull the rest to plant more beets

pulled all radish to harvest and will reseed them this week in a different row (cuke plants are too large at this point)

7/13 Workparty

Jada and Michelle went out to Rippling waters to put in worktrade hours. We weeded their chard.

Rained out...

Our workparty at the end of june was rained out...

things that were done during the week...

carrots were seeded in two rows, planted with marigold
all beans weeded
fields prepped for potato planting and beet seeding
trenches dug to cover turnips and rutebega with remay
gene's broccoli & kale were mulched

7/6 Potato Planting and BBQ

attended: Matt, Cameron, Emily, Angel, Jim, Maria, Maria's mom, Amy, Ellis, Carol, Gisele, Lee, Jada, Jeff, Margot, Michelle

Potatotes: 6 rows, 150 feet in length, trenches dug 3 feet apart, potatoes cut and planted 12 inches apart, 6 inches deep

1 row of yukon, 1 row All Blue, 1/2 row island sunshine, 1/2 row banana, 1/4 row red dale, 3/4 row all red, 1/2 row magic molly, 1/2 all red

Matt brought a donation of 30 lbs of potatoes - all blues, bananas and larattes

trenches were started by running hand plow (see tool above) down the bed 3-4 times then raking the sides of the trenches up. the potatoes were placed in the trenches 12 inches apart (we used paint sticks to measure) and trenches were then filled in.

We also weeded the onion field and Gene's broccoli. Lawn was mowed.