Garden Update - July

The past month saw many frosty starts in the community garden making it essential to begin our drop in sessions with a warm cup of tea in hand. It also saw the investment in perennial vegetables in the garden with the planting of potato onions, perennial leeks and asparagus crowns.

And while the in-garden harvests consisted mostly of Jerusalem Artichokes and perennial herbs we turned our attention to seasonal ‘harvesting’ of fallen leaves. This bounty quickly filled a stand alone leaf tower and three empty on ground compost bins. These will make excellent carbon additions to the composting system of the garden and, most importantly, contribute to making great soil additions for spring garden planting prep. Have you been collecting leaves at your place?

If you want to learn more about the role of leaves and carbon in your composting system check out our FREE online Introduction to Composting & Worm Farming coming up in August!

We also excitedly ‘unboxed’ some berries and perennial fruit bushes that will be planted in the food forest area of the garden as part of our upcoming Backyard Food Forests workshop. And we received our spring seed order! Yes, it’s a little early to be thinking of spring but making a plan for what we will plant and having the seeds on hand is always a fun way to maintain garden enthusiasm and anticipation for warmer, fruitful days ahead when the weather is wintery.

Community garden drop in sessions will take a break for the depths of winter and recommence Thursday 31st July 9.30-11am.

Hope to see you there!