BES Garden Club

Garden club was busy today! First we all harvested greens: lettuce, spinach, chard, kale leaves, and kale florets (which look like mini broccolis).  Gardeners who wanted to take greens home did so, and others harvested for our snack! We had a special guest, Anna Wind, who taught us how to make fresh spring rolls.   So we washed, chopped, tore and cut the greens, plus radishes, cilantro, mint, and chives from Mil's Farm just down the road, and some carrots.  Then Anna showed us how to roll up all these into a rice spring roll wrapper.  Yum! The kids can't wait to make them again! (If you are a parent reading this, it is a super easy, super healthy, delicious snack that kids could make pretty much by themselves!) We also pulled the chard out of greenhouse bed 1, added compost, and planted cucumber seeds! Good job, gardeners! And thanks, Anna! harvesting and grazing preparing veggies for spring rolls eating spring rolls, YUM!!!!

We prepped and direct seeded radishes into garden bed 4, and weeded greenhouse bed 2. The carrots are starting to germinate, the daffodils are beautiful, and the gardeners enjoyed a beautiful afternoon in the garden and playing nearby!

This has been quite a rainy stretch of weather!  Luckily the rain broke just in time for garden club. Gardeners started flats of flowers: zinnias, alyssum, Indonesian (orange) cosmos, and sea shell cosmos. All the overwintered greenhouse spinach, which was bolting and under aphid attack, was pulled out of greenhouse bed 1.  We have some nice spring planted spinach left in that bed. We planted snap peas in garden bed 1.  We inoculated the peas with rhizobia which will fix nitrogen from the air in root nodules and thereby provide nitrogen to the plants. We mulched the potatoes. There was also time to play!

This afternoon we transplanted broccoli into garden bed 2, and lettuce into garden bed 5.  I wasn't able to bring compost, so we used some organic fertilizer to provide nutrients for the plants.   Those club  members who planned to eat them harvested greens for home.