CSA is starting this week!!!

For all of our CSA members out there...don't forget to pick up your veggies!  Make sure and check the "Weekly CSA Produce" tab to find out what you will be getting each week as well as the "Recipes" tab for some fun ways to use your produce.
As a reminder...
PICK-UP WILL BE ON THURSDAY MORNINGS FROM 10:00AM – NOON AT EITHER KING GARDENS OR THE NEIGHBORHOOD GARDENER VEGETABLE STAND.  THE LONGVILLE SITE IS AT RON'S HARDWARE WHERE YOU CAN PICK UP YOUR CONTAINER FROM 10AM-4:30PM.  THE WALKER SITE IS THE GREEN SCENE WHERE YOU CAN PICK UP FROM 9AM TO 5PM.

I am very excited for another great year!

Tomato plants are in the ground!

We have been taking very good care of all the tomato plants and it is now time to get them in the ground.  It took a little bit of time to figure out exactly what we wanted to plant.  We started 52 different kinds of tomatoes, we made decisions based on last years favorites as well as planted a few new varieties we wanted to try.  We planted almost 300 plants so our CSA members can anticipate some very tasty new varieties this summer. 

Nice and tall and ready to be planted

Holes are dug and strings are hung

Snug in its hole

A little compost tea to get it started

...and done

Who Would Have Thought Planting Lettuce Could Be So Hard

Lissa and I were brainstorming some different places to plant some more lettuce crops when a genius idea struck her...
We have been using our small greenhouse for storage; we decided to clean it out and build some troughs to plant more greens.  The space is enclosed so therefore protected, we ca

Once the trench was dug and we laid the wire down, we covered it back up and started the frames for the lettuce beds.

Then  we laid plastic down and filled them with dirt.  Lettuce should be ready to cut in about 4 weeks.